Ubisoft^® PRESENTS

GAMESCON 2010 HIGHLIGHTS

Get Sweaty, Start Up Your Time Traveling Washing Machine and Visit Rome! Discover Ubisoft’s Line-up at the Consumer Booth

Ubisoft announced the slate of games that consumers will be able to experience first-hand at this year’s GamesCom from August 18-22 in Cologne, Germany. Ubisoft’s booth is located at Hall 7.2. A31 in the consumer area where visitors are invited to play a wide range of highly anticipated titles from Ubisoft’s upcoming line-up.

You heard about it at E3 in Los Angeles but, for the first time ever, fans who attend GamesCom will be able to play Michael Jackson The Experience at the Ubisoft booth. In addition, for the first time in Europe, visitors will be able to test the new multiplayer mode of Assassin’s Creed^® Brotherhood, as well as see a presentation of the game’s single player experience which is scheduled at Ubisoft´s convention cinema. Playable at the booth, a multiplayer mode of DRIVER^® San Francisco will invite players to engage in wild and extensive car chases, while fans of strategy games will be able to check out R.U.S.E™. Players who prefer aerial dogfights can get in the cockpit of Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.^® 2, and the crazy Rabbids from Raving Rabbids^®: Travel in Time will take visitors on a trip through the history of mankind. Consumers can also work up a sweat playing three different Ubisoft motion controlled games: Your Shape™: Fitness Evolved, Motion Sports™ and Racket Sports.

For those willing to step up to the challenge, there will be a dedicated R.U.S.E.™ multiplayer arena for up to 50 players at the official Electronic Sports League (ESL) booth in Hall 9. Compete for cool prizes against eight ESL pro gamers at regularly held R.U.S.E.™ tournaments.

The following top titles will be presented and playable at the Ubisoft booth on select platforms:

• Assassin’s Creed^® Brotherhood (PlayStation^®3, Xbox 360^®) )
• DRIVER^® San Francisco (PlayStation^®3)
• Michael Jackson The Experience (Wii™)
• R.U.S.E™ (PC, PlayStation^®Move, Xbox 360^®)
• Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. ^® 2. (Playstation^®3, Xbox 360^®)
• Raving Rabbids^®: Travel in Time (Wii™)
• Your Shape™: Fitness Evolved (Xbox 360^® Kinect™)
• Motion Sports™ (Xbox 360^® Kinect™)
• Racket Sports (PlayStation^®Move)
• Just Dance® 2 (Wii™)

Daring visitors can jump up on the Ubisoft show stage and dance till they drop with the Just Dance^® 2 dancers or cross the space-time continuum, testing Raving Rabbids^®: Travel in Time.  Any visitor gutsy enough to show their stuff on the Ubisoft stage will walk away with a special goodie.  And if you earn a goodie, but covet a different one, Ubisoft offers the Goodie-Swap where guests can turn in their current goodies for a different exclusive, limited Ubisoft goodie.

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Unterwegs zu Wii in einer Waschmaschine

Ubisoft hat eine eindrucksvolle Bilanz, wenn es um Rabbids Titel auf Wii kommt: da die Konsole starten wir im Jahr 2006 nicht weniger als vier Ausflüge für die chaotische weißen Hasen gesehen haben, mit dem letztjährigen Rabbids Go Home die neuesten und sehr anständige Titel. Nun, gerade aus E3, Ubisoft hat einen weiteren neuen Titel für Wii angekündigt, Raving Rabbids Travel in Time.

Obwohl wir wissen, next-to Nothi …

Für weitere Infos und Videos: Raving Rabbids Videos

Doodle 526 - Rabbids vs Minions

My nephew thought that the minions from Despicable me reminded him a lot of the Raving Rabbids from the Rayman games, so he asked me to draw the two fighting.  I’m just glad the minions aren’t always screaming…

If you love these as much as I do, there are more ads from the previous year’s campaign posted at The Inspiration Room.

Then two new titles for Kinect were shown. Motion Sports invovles three sports, Football (soccer), American Football, and Skiing. Skiing involves, well, moving like a skiier would without skiis or moving at 100 miles an hour. Football seems to be from the VT, penalty shootouts, where there are two players taking part, the outfield player and the goalkeeper. And with the American Football game, its running towards the touchdown area, to score a touchdown.

The second Ubisoft Kinect product is Your Shape. An exercise game where the game uses technology called Player Projection, puts your body in the gameworld. It scans your body in and takes all your measurements, Biceps, Abdominal, Hamstring, all are some of the parts of the body it analyses. It also measures your height, shoulder span, arm length, hip line, and leg length.

Menus are position so you can reach and select them using your arms or legs. You can choose fitness sessions, or activities like Martial Arts. DLC and challenges will be endless with the ability to send them to friends, and in the typical gym mantra, you can brag about your results and stats online. When doing these exercises, there is a trainer on one side of the screen, and your firery you on the other. As it goes through exercises, it detects when your hitting the right points, and tells you that your getting it right. You can also play fitness games, getting exercise while doing things like kicking and punching blocks in the game, getting a score at the end.

I’ve literally just said what i saw as i’m not that interested in that at all. Ok.

Insane Raving Rabbids. Thats right. Not much was shown in the demo. But if it was anything like the last, it will be many mini games, and in the theme of the title, Travel in Time, they will, well, travel through time.

The release date for that will be November 9th 2010, and be exculsively on the Wii.

Even though i do love the Raving Rabbit Rabbits, the next one got me licking my lips because its been too long, and this looks too awesome.

Ghost Recon Future Soldier.

Its obviously aimed at providing you and me with the future weapons, like Active Camo Suits.

The developers have worked with several organistations, military agencies/consultants, to find out what is going to happen in the future, what future weapons and technology could be or is available, and implement it into the game.

It retains the over the shoulder view, and a brand new Cross-Com device, with the ability to identify key enemies, and better battlefield awareness. During the demo it seems that the active camo suit is used heavily, and its one of the main new gadgets available in the game. One thing they pointed out, with one of the advantages of having camo is close quarters combat, actions are available when performing these actions. This includes when shooting someone in the back of the head while sitting down, you can hold him up, to stop him falling over, and alerting a patrolling guard.

You now approach situations with all four of your teammates in camo, and quickly take out a bunch of enemies in any way possible. Not just stealth, ambush situations are there, and they affect the enemies, although it looks quite linear, but thats to be expected.

If there are low walls in close succession, there is better cover-to-cover flow, quite like what’s in Splinter Cell Conviction.

The game will have 4 player coop in the full campaign, and will also be in stereoscopic 3D, great, its started, now i’ll have to buy a new TV in 6 years. They’re already calling HD Traditional. Man, the youth of today don’t know what it was like. And thats me, i’m only 23, what about the gamers that had to live through the Commodore days, ColecoVision. This game looks awesome, someone sign me up to work in this industry!

The next one interesting, but not surprising that they brought it back. Although, in my mind, Driver 3 was the last one, because it was the last one i played, and it wasn’t that great. It was short and had speed limits.

But now Driver San Fransisco is apparently going back to its roots from the first game. Bringing back Tanner, and the nemesis from the second, Charles Jericho. Not much released on the story yet, obviously, but the new gameplay mechanics on show were quite interesting. They also say that they have worked on the car mechanics, to make, his car at least, feel liek the 1970s Dodge Challenger he is in.

The other key mechanic on display, stems from the core story, which is Tanners in a coma, but doesn’t realise it. This though within the context of the game can change into different cars depending on what you want to do, this is called Shift. The game also has over 100 licensed cars in the game, which is always nice, and it has multiplayer which incorporates the Shift ability, which also sounds nice, and interesting.

Images captured from Coverage on Gametrailers.com

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“Our clear goal today is to come more regularly with our top brands. For example, it took three to four years to come back with Splinter Cell, Driver, Prince of Persia, or Ghost Recon. We believe we can launch them more often without risk of brand fatigue, said Guillemot.

“This commitment to our franchises does not mean we won’t continue to launch new franchises, as certain projects have been under development for some time, and two new titles will be launched in 2011 and 2012.”

The publisher is expected to release a new Assassin’s Creed title late this year, perhaps signaling it has now become an annual franchise.

In the same call, Ubisoft’s chief financial officer Alain Martinez pointed to the annual Raving Rabbids series as evidence of the effectiveness of this plan.

“When you add up the three Raving Rabbids games over the years, what we are seeing are the total amount of units going up,” said Martinez. “Assassin’s Creed has kept selling and is still one of our best sellers. Bringing a game regularly is actually maintaining a better sell of your back catalog because you are more present and people will buy the new title or the cheaper, cost-effective ones.

Guillemot also highlighted that Ubisoft is focusing on adding a multiplayer component to all of its brands going forward.

“We’ve made big investments to make sure all of our brands could become multiplayer,” said Guillemot. “We’re coming out with Driver, Splinter Cell, Assassin’s Creed, and Ghost Recon, which will all have multiplayer.”

“Those games will take full advantage of the ability to play with friends, either over the internet or locally at home. We are putting a lot of emphasis on that subject to make sure our games can be played by more people together,” he added. “It’s also a key factor for the relationship we have with our customers on a long-term basis.”

At Cineleisure’s Billy Bomber’s with Cheryl darling. Forgot when but quite sometime back. Last week? Probably. Look! WE BOUGHT CUTE HEADBANDS TGT!

I have no idea why I look so white nowadays. Must be ‘cos I haven’t been in the sun for damn long. Badminton, dance, all indoor sports/activities. (I’m very tempted to call dance a sport but I know many athletics would beg to differ. Though it is shown that dancers uses the most muscles.)

I think that day was rather fun. We were just walking around aimlessly round Orchard Rd. Partially ‘cos we don’t know what to do and there’s nothing we can do ‘cos we probably can’t afford of the things there.

And Cheryl’s feet were aching ‘cos she wore heels. (She’s not used. X.X) So we kind of went to Billy Bombers to sit and waste time while allowing her legs to rest. =.-

Can’t see out headbands here. T.T

But nevermind, both of us look so happy here. ^^Don’t have a proper camera, so we can only use my sucky camera phone to camwhore. ^^

We talked about a lot of crap. Like the freaking irritating woman/mother at my temporary ballet class at Jurong.

And we both agreed that’s like the worst person/mother we have ever met in our entire life. Maybe it’s just my POV. Kind of biased. But it’s true lor!

That woman was like looking down on my class ‘cos we couldn’t get the steps right. (And that is ‘cos what we learnt is slightly different from the RAD format.) She was just sitting in the class sniggering at us. Of ‘cos we were kind of pissed la. But we just kept it to ourself. But Clarissa, kind of flared when that woman loudly said to her daughter….

Come daughter, must buck up! Show them what you got!!

Seriously lor!! If I’m the daughter I also will paiseh lah. But un-surprisingly, like daughter like mother, she also sniggered with her mum. I just rolled my eyes and got on with whatever I’m doing. But Clarissa wasn’t able to keep it in and turned to us to say

COME EVERYONE, LET’S JIAYOU TOO!!

LOL then the woman lost it.

Woman: What are you trying to say ah? I was talking to my daughter!

Clarissa: Nothing! I was talking to my friends what?

WAHAHAH OWNED! She then started ranting on about something what how rude are we et cetra. Lame lah. The pot’s calling the kettle black SRSLY, no?

But I kind of thought it was a little rude though, and reasoned with Clarissa and finally decided to go up with her to apologised. Something between, we were a little wrong to get back that way. Stooping below our level and in the future she might want to use it against us. But once we apologised and if she didn’t, then WE can use it against her! Wahaha. Scheming I know. But too bad for being such a pain in the ass.

THEN!! When we went to apologise, she used this chance to scold us further. Which is plain dumb ‘cos we’re the one apologising already, why are you still scolding us, are you sore or just childish?! Then my turn to own her. WAHAHA

WAIT FOR IT!

HELLO AUNTIE WE’RE APOLOGISING HERE ALREADY HOR!

Then she diam.

I accept your apology.

HAHAH LOSER TTM!

too long no picture. Must see my face or not very weird.

Somewhere in between the whole saga, she actually whipped out her lousy camera and starting filming her stuck up daughter dance. Which we’re fine with it, until she started filming us. That made us go WTFBBQCBFU everything come out. Okay lah, never scold but boiling inside.

Pameline and I decided to go up to her and ask her to delete it ‘cos if she doesn’t, we can use it to sue her for volating our rights. Yeap, you can all guess what she would say right?

I was filming my daughter.

Film my arse. Your baby daughter was standing by the side of the class and just stoning. Not to mention there’s nothing much to see too. She isn’t pretty. Oh I FORGOT! Maybe you needed my picture/video so that you can show the doctor and plastic her to look like moi! Like DUH.

But no, I’m not happy when people take my videos or pictures without my permission.

We demanded that she deleted it. Which I think she’s too dense to even know how to do that ‘cos when we’re doing our next act, she called out to her daughter

Daughter come help me delete their pictures/videos. I don’t want them inside. Waste space.

Uh-huh.

Firstly, you’re like contradicting yourself. (I’m very sure everyone can see that. Unless you’re as dense as she is.)

Secondly, who’s the rude one? Interrupting our lessons asking her daughter to delete the pictures/videos. RIGHTO~! Waste time, no?

BTW, if you want your daughter to look better (Read: Like me.), maybe you should stop scrimping on her food and make her sleep early? I know I don’t exactly sleep very early but too bad I have the genes advantage.

Cheryl’s and my milkshake!

Cheryl got herself a Vanilla while I got myself my usual cookie and cream one. ^^ Major love. But I’m mildly lactose intolerant. So there’s always this unknown fear whenever I buy milkshakes. But Billy Bomber’s Cookies and Cream FTW! Though I thought it’s a little pricey.

Cheryl and her weird handpose. But she’s cute like that! Single! ANY TAKERS?!

Merry Christmas?

Okay anyway. After that shopping trip with Cheryl down Orchard Rd, my next life would be mahjong session + supper after that.For sure.

Went to Lester’s house with Freddy and Cheryl (seemingly weird but fine leh!) to play mahjong! Played a while only ‘cos Cheryl got to leave by 6 plus. But we managed to finshed one round before leaving ‘cos not much people managed to hold their zhuang except for me. LOL. Won a little. Lester won more with his man tai and ‘cos Cheryl keeps spoiling my game with a 1 or 2 tai win. WTF. I played a bit of Lester’s Raving rabbid on his Wii.

Not as fantastic as he always said it is. But it’s definitely enough to get high with. Fred won me like in the first game we played. BUT HEY! That was my first time k! But I won him marginally in the second time we played it. LAWL. Cute rabbid.

We took a bus to Bedok 85 food market to eat the oh-so-famous bak chor mee LOL. Then we kind of decided to go Simpang Bedok for some roti prata supper but it was only like 8 so we went to the lan shop opposite to play some L4D2. ME ISHZXZ NORTZX ADDICT! but yeah, they kept insisting I am. ‘cos my eyes always lit up when someone asks me to play L4D2. Even Z told me that before too. NOT AN ADDICT!

*Living in self-denial*

Played until about 10 plus (Or was it 11pm!?). Then went to order prata bomb and a banana and ice cream tissue prata which cost $7. At first I thought it’s like insanely overpriced. Plus the whole pratas took ages to arrive. T.T So I was like dying. Took the prata bomb which initially belonged to Lester and kupped it. HAHA. Freaking $2.50 for the prata bomb!!! EX TTM! But damn nice when hot. LAWL. The $7 prata isn’t insanely overpriced as I thought ‘cos it’s HUMONGOUS! Three of us couldn’t even finish it! Plus it’s fully STUFFED with ice cream and bananas! (though I had to look for the bananas. BUT WTH ice cream stuffed!) Ultimately sinful. But I don’t really care. Lousy ice cream but heck it’s still ice cream. Best comfort food ever! Will chiong here to eat this when I feel stressed with A’s or something.

Okay, mad long post here. I need to go work on my GP nao!

Had Doug (who was staying the weekend) and family here for Thanksgiving Day, when we ate our selves to oblivion, and I lost a whopping 13 cents playing Tripoley that evening.

Friday took my car into John West Auto to have the PCV valve replaced since my Toyota dealership had recommended when I went in for the Prius’s 30,000 mile checkup to have it replaced, and it was only going to be $125. !!! So I opted to NOT have them replace it, took it to John’s instead, who pulled it out, took a look at it, said it looked nearly brand new and definitely DIDN’T need to be replaced, put it back and didn’t charge me a cent for it. Yay. A mechanic you can trust. Definitely WON’T be letting Toyota do anything to my car that costs anything over my prepaid 5000 mile maintenance anymore. Then Doug had brought over the Wii version of Press Your Luck, so we spent some time looking for Big Bucks and No Whammies, then I introduced him to the first movie in the Mummy trilogy.

Saturday we got up and went to Lowe’s and picked out our Christmas tree for the year. Then sat back and watched The Blues Brothers, which I’d never seen, and later that evening watched The Departed. And in between played RAYMAN RAVING RABBIDS TV PARTY, which I’d just picked up at Best Buy that afternoon, on the Wii. “Bwaaaaaaaaah! Daaaaaaaaah!” Absolutely insane game. Not sure yet, but I think it’s fun!

Also discovered that one of our cats – Lucy – apparently has a UTI, so we brought her to the vet for the official check on Saturday, and came home with a week’s worth of antibiotics and a few days worth of pain killer to give her until the antibiotics kicked in. Fun. Just LOVE medicating a cat! :-O

Today spent most of the day putting the lights and decorations on the Christmas tree, then brought in Dominos Pizza for dinner. Yum.

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree...

Watched the 20th Anniversary episode of AFV then tuned in to the Amazing Race, then kicked Doug out and called it a weekend.

This figure is one of the rabbits from the awesome ‘Rabbits reenacting famous movies in 30 seconds’ at angryalien.

But my career of making small clay figures would not exist if it were not for my brother one day asking me if i could make the cookiemonster for him.

After this he has given me regular assignments of making clay figures out of characters from various games. One christmas I made him a ‘Raving Rabbid’ in a can of whopass. I stole the font from the champignon-can I made it of.

Last chrismas i endeavoured to make him a model of the first level of Bubble Bobble, my favourite game as I grew up. We used to play it for hours on end, having defined assignments and procedures for each of the 100 levels.

First I made the figures starring level one. They are eating coins to prevent their jaws from gliding shut before they are baked. In the background you can faintly see Bubble Bobble on a computer screen.

The frame is painted as level 1. Kudos to a friend of mine for making the pieces of wood i needed as ledges.

All done!

Once after 5BX, once after lunch, once before dinner (after afternoon PT) and once before I sleep. During non-tactical weeks, I will skip the lunch shower, since I will most probably be attending classroom lessons in aircon rooms.

Warm-ups take 10min

During tactical weeks, we would do 4 warm-ups per day and 3 cool-downs. We have 31 individual actions in a set of warm-up/cool-down, doing 20 counts for each action during warm-ups and 10 counts for cool-downs. So on a typical tactical day, we would make 3410 counts in 70 min.

Climbing the stairs up to our bunks is faster than taking the lift

But climbing 4 levels is tiring, especially after PTs, and we need to fill our water bottles at the water cooler which was beside the lift. Usually, the ones (in my bunk) without keys would take the stairs, and wait for those with keys to reach the bunk via the lifts.

The place where we take our tactical training is called Dojo room

I only searched for the definition of Dojo 2 days after my tactical training concluded, only to realize that the word has no precise link to the room we were trained in for the past 8 weeks. The room is covered with foam mats (think those in kiddy playrooms), where the main training area is in grey and circumscribed by red mats.

There is a stand at the front of the room with a picture of a balding old man with long beard whom we called Master Ch’i, along with the words 合气道. BUT, we are not learning Aikido. hmmmm… The stand is made up of 3-panels, which people always mistook for a solid box. So the ICs of the day would mistakenly place his stuff on ‘top’ of the ‘box’, only to hear his things drop onto the floor with a solid thud.

SB and I, since week 2, would stand at the right hand corner of the room, furthest from Master Ch’i because:

1. we would be far from the front where the trainers liked to hover
2. we would be directly under the fan
3. the wind blowing from the swimming pool beside the Dojo is strongest at that side of the room
4. we could see the clock (we can’t carry hard objects during tactical training) in the swimming pool from the position
5. we would be near the water-bottle point
6. it is the trainers’ blind spot (they would still hover to the back, but somehow, they would miss us)
7. we just liked to be left alone

The IC for the day would be called Dojo IC, even though technically speaking, he should be the Tactical IC, and the trainers insist they be called squad IC, when he is actually taking the whole cohort.

Our meals consist of very good and very bad stuff

The GOOD: processed food like fish cake and sotong fillet, steamed fish in sweet and sour sauce, green bean soup with coconut milk, red bean soup, ice-cream, pudding, plain coloured ‘chicken’ rice filled with aroma of pandan (see next paragraph)…

The BAD: tasteless/stinky chicken, super chewy fried fish fillet (takes 1 min to chew the rubbery contents), yellow-coloured green vegetables, green-coloured ‘pandan’ rice that taste like plain rice, mutton rendang with lots of fats.

I like to shit at:

• Classroom block
• Auditorium block
• Behind the drill shed
• Anywhere but in my bunk’s toilet cos it is too farking small (and dark) for conducive shitting. Not to mention it was not a squadron and we need to clean the toilet.

I’ve shed 8kg since the start of the training

For the past 15 weeks, I lost 1kg during every week of tactical; the extra 2 kg is lost during training weeks. Now that tactical has ended, I guess my weight will stabilize.

The name tags I made for my bunkies for the Nepal trip…

The thing is… that was my pet phrase, but was more affectionately noted by my bunkies in its chinese version “重点是。。。” But 重点是, I don’t really say it that often, right?

Similarly, other than saying ‘teh for a while （躺一下）’, my roomie kept saying cock, no matter if the matter/person was really a cock. SB liked to say ‘真的吗？’ (while I prefer to say 真的假的 ?) and MM, given his tendency to do things slowly, liked to say, ‘你们走/冲/做/睡先。’.

We also attributed animal names to each other. Mr Teh (aka my roomie) is Rabbit (for his good imitation of Raving Rabbid), while MM is Millipede (used to refer to his little bro slender body). SB is Doraemon, partly cos of his small pot belly (even though he has 6 pecs, they just turned to belly under clothes), while me, well, is human. ha… Thank goodness!!

Rummet här är väldigt mycket större nu utan bordet. Och det känns toppen att vara av med den stora möbeln. Ikväll blir det till att testa Wii-spelande fullt ut då inget soffbord är ivägen. Antingen Simpsons eller Raving rabbids 2.Ska lyxa till det ikväll också med frukt. Mango,passionsfrukt kanske kanske vindruvor. Jävulskt gott!

Så!
1. Vilket spel hade du valt av Simpsons och Rabbids och varför?
2. Vilken är din favoritfrukt?

Instead of tackling games per platform, I’ll just offer up some highlights and general notes on games and developments (in no particular order) showed during Ubisoft’s presentation:

• Commented that ‘tween’ demographic is one of the largest growing segments in gaming right now, mostly appealing to young girls and that many companies follow their lead.  They place a heavy emphasis on their ‘imagine’ line of games for DSi, Wii, and PC.  Of course you can expect to see more ‘Petz’ titles this year as well as some new fashion orientated games that allow players to mock up pictures they may take with their DSi camera’s.  Players can also trade pets and/or data using the DSi’s built in WiFi.  Ubisoft calls this ‘inter-connectivity’, and finally metioned the ability to create items such as jewelry, and then pruchase your creation online, and then have an actual physcial item shipped to your.  The example they used was a necklace in which a young girl designed it via her stylus and DSi, and then finished product was shipped to her home.
• U-Play: Ubisoft seems to want to make a more interactive web/forum experience for those that purcahse their products.  U-Play looks somewhat similar to the new X-Box experience, by having 4 ‘blades’, each having a specific purpose such as  walkthrough/hints, store, etc.
• Assassins Creed 2: I never played the first one, but I understand it was one of the best new and fasted selling IP’s of 2007.  Expect them to expand on all the previous features including swimming, new stealth based kills, larger areas, and new characters.  They seem to be taking this one pretty seriously, and the trailer they showed was stunning.  Now that the original has dropped in price as a platimun hit at $19.99, I may go back and pick it up in preparation for the sequel.  Ubisoft claimed thay have over 400 people working on this title!
• Raving Rabbid’s Go Home (Wii): Looks like this franchise is departing from it ‘party-game’ format into something a bit more structured and customizable.  There is now a plot in which the rabbid’s want to get off the earth and make their new home on the moon….but how do they get there?  Well, they feel the need to take ‘stuff’ and build a tower of random junk that will lead to the moon.  There are some open sand-box play fields and some mini-games as well.  You can also customize the individual looks of your rabbids and unlock additional items as you progress.  Of course a lot of silly humor goes into this over the top cartoon stylized game and it appear there may even be some co-op gameplay.  This is worth a closer look as more details will come and looks like a cute, smash, fun time-sink game.  Probably good for kids and non hard-core gamers.  Because of the open play field, story-mode, and campaign, this may breathe new life into this IP.
• RUSE: They showed a pretty intense trailer that led one to believe it would be a real time and epic military strategy game that looks akin to something in the Tom Clancy universe, but instead of controlling individual people, it looked more like broad units, platoons, brigades, etc.  Kind of like a very detailed game of Risk they uses ground, air, & sea elements.  Not much was said, just the trailer.
• No More Heroes 2 – Desperate Struggle (Wii): Long awaited sequel in the works from the surprise adult-orientated wacky Wii title.  Will help fill the serious gaping gap that hardcore Wii users are so frustrated about.
• Red Steel 2 (Wii): Utilizes Nintendo’s new Motion Plus controller and another adult themed title that again addresses Wii’s lack of hardcore software for the more serious player.  The showed what looked liek a very nice opening cinematic trailer and then about 10 minutes or so of actual gameplay.  Looks very nice, both in graphic style and art direction.  I was amazed how well the sword handled with the Motion Plus and nun-chuck controller tethered on.  While the first Red Steel never lived up to its once-hyped potential, I have a feeling this one will deliver.  RS2 and NMH 2 may give me a compelling reason to but a Motion Plus accessory.  Will be out in December of this year and no multiplayer mode.
• Splinter Cell – Conviction:  Oh my!  Looks just as awesome as some of the others AAA titles coming out and a welcome return for Sam Fisher.  Ubisoft looks to be on a roll this year at E3 and Conviction should be out Q4.  The gameplay demo’d look fantastic.  The art direction and lighting has come so far in this franchise.  The devs emphasized that while stealth is still very important to Sam Fisher, this will be slightly faster paced, and Sam will be relying much more on both the actual environment and low-tech objects he finds.  The devs also are introducing some great story-telling methods in the game with the use of real-time flashbacks….hard to explain, but you have to see it in action and it will maek sense.  Objectives also are displayed during game within the game in a new twist, ala, Fringe (FOX TV series).  Lastly, Sam uses a new combat mechanic that allows him to ‘mark’ shots in a queuing sequence before he takes action.  Again, you have to see it to undertsand, but it’s really slick, looks easy to use, and really pumps up the adrenaline factor in this stealth based game.  Most likely a ‘must-buy’ for me.