[E3] Day One Wrap Up - Highlights

EA

• UFC Announces Partnership with EA
  
• Dead Space 3 Gamplay Shown; Release Date Confirmed for February 2013
  
• Crysis 3 Releasing February 2013
  
• Sim City Social Coming to Facebook
  
• Need For Speed Most Wanted Releasing October 30th, 2012
  
• FIFA 13 Will Be Able To Connect To Tablets, Smartphones, and Consoles
  

UBISOFT

• Rayman Legends and Zombie U announced for the Nintendo Wii U
  
• Just Dance 4, Watch Dogs, and Shootmania Storm Officially Announced
  
• Far Cry 3 Gameplay Footage Shown
  

MICROSOFT

• Halo 4 Gameplay Revealed
  
• Xbox Smartglass Announced; Windows 8 Compatible
  
• Gears of War 3 Judgement staring Baird and Cole Announced and Trailer Shown
  
• Splinter Cell Blacklist Shown without Michael Ironside voicing Sam Fisher
  
• FIFA 13 and Madden 13 Kinect enabled
  
• Nike Kinect Trainer Announced
  
• IE Browser Announced
  
• Fable The Journey Trailer Shown
  
• Forza Horizon Trailer Shown
  

SONY

• Games Announced For The Vita Include; Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified, Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation, and All Star Battle Royale
  
• Beyond Staring Ellen Page Announced
  
• HTC Partners With Sony For Mobile Related
  
• God of War: Ascension Releasing March 13, 2012
  
• JK Rowling Wonderbook Collaboration Announced
  
• Playstation One Classics Releasing On The Vita
  
• Gameplay Footage from The Last of Us Shown
  

Final Thoughts: Overall the stars of E3 Day One were both EA and Ubisoft with the overall winner being the showing of the insanely gorgeous Far Cry 3. Microsoft and Sony were huge disappointments. Microsoft's conference felt rushed and did not have any announcements that made me excited to be an Xbox 360 owner. Where were the "now available" Xbox Live Arcade titles that they usually release the night of their conference? No dashboard update talk for this coming fall? It seemed that all they were worried about was the timed exclusive DLC that gamers do not really care about which is something that these companies need to understand. Sony's press conference was about the same dull showing, except that they didn't have Usher and dancers in spandex twirling around on stage and totally not matching Dance Central 3 in the background. (Not sure if anybody else took notice to that or not when they had dancing to the game towards the end) Both Microsoft and Sony need to seriously rethink their awful conferences this year, because E3 Day One for the console owners was a complete and utter disaster on their behalf.