Microsoft decided (in its diminishing wisdom) to shove more awful looking Kinect games down our throats and introduce more pointless voice commands into established franchises that really don't need them. By the middle of the hour and a half long farce, where they discussed smartphone and tablet synchronisity, it felt more like a 'look at the gimmicky shit we've invented conference' rather than a 'games conference'. It only got worse when they started discussing new links with ESPN, and a new music service called Xbox music. Tada! I wonder if Microsoft even remember the Zune themselves sometimes.
Amazingly it got worse as with the announcement of Just Dance 3, or whatever the fuck Microsoft's version is called, they got Usher to perform on stage.
The 3rd party titles shown (along with Halo 4) where definately the highlights with Splinter Cell Blacklist, Tomb Raider, Resi 6 and even Blops2 looking great, but none of these are Microsoft's creations. Although the arrogance shown by the presenters makes it seem like they are.
So, what did Microsoft actually show of their own making? Well, the Halo 4 gameplay footage was the undoubted shining beacon and that was about it. There was a short theatrical trailer for a new Gears of War game entitled Judgement, a rather underwhelming trailer for Forza Horizon which resembles an open world NFS Prostreet with prettier graphics, and a horribly cheesy part live-action, part gameplay trailer for the Kinect heavy Fable: The Journey (which looks a bit shit).
And of course there was the usual exclusive DLC announcements.
To be honest the highlight for me was Trey Parker and Matt Stone turning up to talk about Southpark: The Stick of Truth being developed by Obsidian. It looks fucking amazing.
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