E3 2004

[Lee-yoshi]

E3 is a special time of year for all budding gamers! So in the run upto this years Electronic Explosion, a list is being compiled for all you lucky people who can sit back and rest while reading through some games you may be playing alongside Phantasy Star Online on your little purple box of joy. Some games may shock you!

Nintendo
Custom Robo
Donkey Konga - Namco
Fire Emblem
Geist
Mario Party 6
Mario Tennis
Metroid Prime 2 - Retro Studio's
Paper Mario 2
Pikmin 2
StarFox 2: Armada - Namco
The Legend of Zelda: The Four Swords

Capcom
Killer 7
MegaMan Anniversary Collection
MegaMan X Command Mission
Resident Evil 4
Viewtiful Joe 2

Electronic Arts
Catwoman
Def Jam Vendetta: The Fight for New York
Goldeneye 2: Rogue Agent
Harry Potter & The Prisioner of Azkaban
Madden NFL 2005
NASCAR Thunder 2005
NBA Live 2005
NCAA Football 2005
NCAA March Madness 2005
NHL 2005
The Lord of the Rings: The 3rd Age
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005
Timesplitters 3: Future Perfect
The Urbz - Maxis

Namco
Baten Kaitos
Street Racing Syndicate
Tales of Symphonia

SEGA
Puyo Pop Fever
Virtua Fighter - Cyber Generation: Ambition of the Judgement Six

THQ
Polar Express
Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie
Tak II: The Staff of Dreams
The Incredibles
WWE Day of Reckoning - Yukes Pacific

Bandai
Digimon Rumble Arena 2
Digimon World 4
RibbitKing

Activision
DreamWorks Shark Tale
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Spiderman 2
Tony Hawks Underground 2
X-Men Legends

Natsume
Harvest Moon: It's A Wonderful Life 2

UbiSoft
Splinter Cell: Pandora Tommorow

Blizzard Entertainment
StarCraft: Ghost

Also expect to see a load more games, aswell as some nice surprises for everyone to enjoy. Maybe some more Pokemon, or maybe a bit more on Mario 128...wouldn't go amiss!

E3 will also hold the way for a load more GameBoy Advance games, such as a whole batch of NES collective games, and some sequels everyone loves! Also watch out for the mysterious Nintendo DS which will make its huge primary impact this May!

The list will be updated as more games become available, until then bask in the lists glory, there's quite a few there! Please feel free to comment and discuss any E3 releated events in this thread. For all your release date topics, please discuss them in the 'Nintendo in 2004' thread.

As E3 starts (May 12th - May 14th), expect a lot of info here or around this thread!!!

[EDIT] - 04-05-04 New Game Announcements

Lee-yoshi

[Proj3ct_Zer0]

Nice set of titles there up for showing. I think we could do with less Pokemon games showing up now and again. Theres to many of them! Cant wait for WindWaker 2.

Shame we have no channel to view all the action from , since GN got shut down

[Lee-yoshi]

Nice set of titles there up for showing. I think we could do with less Pokemon games showing up now and again. Theres to many of them! Cant wait for WindWaker 2.

Shame we have no channel to view all the action from , since GN got shut down

By GN do you mean Game Network? Because they're still broadcasting, just mainly in Italy. They've moved EPG Number on Sky to 172 i think, along with most other channels that were around the 200-300 mark. However, its full of text programs now unfortunately, i wouldn't hold my breathe for E3 coverage like last year (Unless your Italian!).

[Proj3ct_Zer0]

Ahh kool. I didnt know it had changed. It used to be 223 I think. Yeh it does kinda suck with all the text message shite on it. When your in need of viewing some good gaming footage, you get some prostitute in skimpy bikini moaning down the phone to someone . Dont have a problem with staring at them for a while, but its all crap!

[Ton]

wasn't starcraft ghost on last years e3? i cant wait for wind waker 2 and metroid prime 2.

[Thesord]

Arg,still no information on The Lord of The Rings Trilogy(But I presume it's a compilation of the 3 games).

[Phantom_RAcast]

wasn't starcraft ghost on last years e3? i cant wait for wind waker 2 and metroid prime 2.

no it wasn't

[Lee-yoshi]

Originally Posted 04-05-04 @ 03:55PM
More games announced in the run upto E3. Next Tuesday!

These include Namco's Street Racing Syndicate, SEGA's Puyo Pop and Virtua Fighter, aswell as many more EA Games!

[EDIT] 05-05-04
Also to wet everyone's appetite, Nintendo of Europe have released Pre-E3 images of just a selection of the games being unvieled on May 12th!

Donkey Konga

From Nintendo.co.uk
Monkeys and music equate success! In this game it's all about the rhythm, so a special set of 'Konga Bongos' will be released in celebration. These are special ancient bongos that respond not only to the beats banged onto them bongos, but the clapping of the bongo bonger who's bopping to the banging beats!

Keep in-time to the licensed music by top-selling artists to wrack up those 'Great' beat points and become the ultimate bongo banging champion. Gather up to three other friends and then compete in multiplayer bongo competitions to become the best of the best of the bongo bongoing community!

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

From Nintendo.co.uk
Metroid Prime was one of the most highly rated GameCube titles of all time, and now we have lifted the lid on one of the most eagerly awaited sequels of all time! Metroid Prime 2: Echoes features an epic single-player story, but also includes a multiplayer mode in which up to four players can battle it out whilst utilising the multiple weapons made famous by the first game, and new items implemented for the sequel. Players can also transform into Morph Balls to make a rapid exit should the fight not be going their way.

Morph your way into the action later this year, and only on Nintendo GameCube.

Paper Mario 2

From Nintendo.co.uk
Paper Mario conjures up some sweet memories, and now Mario's back in an all new role-playing adventure that takes place in an unknown land. Mario's abilities are now further expanded as he can be seen turning into a paper aeroplane to take to the skies, a tube to bounce to higher platforms, and flat to fit through a variety of small areas.

Assisting Mario are 'Timing Action Commands,' that allow mustached-Mario, the multi-skilled Italian plumber, to dodge attacks, inflict damage, and impress the crowd to garner power to perform extra-special moves. In this new instalment, more emphasis is placed on his abilities, and how he can combine these with items such as giant hammers, so you better keep your wits about you!

Pikmin 2

From Nintendo.co.uk
Those little Pikmin are back and promising to take over even more of your life! Captain Olimar and his new assistant, Louie, have to erase 10,000 Poko's worth of debt to save their company from bankruptcy, and helping the terrific two are the Pikmin, who return with new colours, and more variety.

Create your new Pikmin by placing them into rare lilies found in mysterious dungeons. Find a purple plant and you can create super-strong purple Pikmin that are ten times as strong as a normal Pikmin, ten times heavier, and able to utilise ten times the work power of normal Pikmin. The new purple Pikmin are slower, however, and can easily be left behind, rendering them defenceless. The other new breed of Pikmin are frail, white, and can withstand the poisonous gasses that would harm even the mighty purple Pikmin. As with those purple Pikmin, these can only be created via the use of a special white lily.

In Pikmin 2 the time-limits have been removed, and a two-player cooperative or VS. play mode have been added that promise to double the fun factor.

The Legend of Zelda: The Four Swords

From Nintendo.co.uk
Classic Legend of Zelda gameplay meets unrivalled multiplayer cooperative features to create one unforgettable experience! One so unforgettable that The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures is already being called one of the best games of the year, so far, by the specialist gaming press. As you play through the adventure on your Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance, you switch between the TV screen and the Game Boy Advance, while cooperating with friends to solve puzzles and defeat enemies.

Additionally, all players get to partake in such whacky mini-games as horse racing, chicken catching and some of the most frantic multiplayer battles you will ever see - whatever you do, just don't take your eyes off Four Swords Adventures!

For all the Information, including GBA Games, visit Nintendo.co.uk

[EDIT] (22-05-04) E3 Post Double Merging

E3 News (1)

Nintendo's E3 Press Conference:

The conference is being held right now, the last of the 3 companies. So far shown was Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Starfox 2: Armada (November PAL release?), and Capcom's Resident Evil 4.

First thing they did though, was typical Nintendo, and get cocky with the other companies! To be quoted:

"Other companies doesn't mind what you do, so long as you do it on their operating system"

Oooooh they are mean!

They're also promising to take gamers forward in the games world with more and ore ways for gamers to interact with the games! Oh and by the way, they didn't say in the future, they meant now. While they're talking in fact, while other companies are fannying around! Where do they get them from!

Next Nintendo looked at some statistics! They showed that Nintendo have sold more games per system than Microsoft, and are fast closing in on Sony. He points out that the GameCube has been a huge success, and will continue to be so. George Harrison (The bloke talking!) said that reasons for this were hardcore and immediate fans, people that want gaming and entertainment that it easy to get into and enjoy, characters that people know and feel comfortable with, and finally good prices!

After this was talks of how consumers love cheap prices, which were shown after the Gamecubes price drop worldwide! That was pretty obvious though! Also the GC's catalogue will extend to over 400 games!! Next came GBA announcements, how the GBA owns the market, and how they will in the short-term future be bringing Pokemon TV episodes to the GBA for consumers to buy and watch!

Continuing with the handhelds, he says the PSP doesnt compare to the GBA (Thats right! I dunno what he's looking at!). Then he moved onto the Nintendo DS. These facts can be looked at in the Nintedo DS thread.

Next came the Next Nintendo console! Iwata speaks. He says in a nutshell that the next console will not feature heavily on improved grpahics, as it's not enough for the gamers of today. It will instead include brand new experiences! Dont worry though, it will obviously feature graphical advances! The games of tomorrow are 100% gameplay, not graphics!

When all that was finished, on came the legendary Miyamoto in a silly Link costume, appearing in a cloud of smoke! WOAH!

New Legend of Zelda Game Announced!

Following the Nintendo E3 Press Conference held not that long ago...(in fact i think it's still in progress!), a new zelda game is being shown. And it sunlike anyone could have possibly imagined! ITS TOTALLY REALISTIC!

This new totally 3D adventure was just shown live during Ninty's PC, and what exactly was shown was one 4/5 minute long excerpt from the latest 'The Legend of Zelda' title. The exact scene was a battle scene unbelivably!

The game features:

• New Locations
• Classic characters such as Epona the Horse and the evil Ganondorf
• Possibly Real blood?!
• No Cel-Shading!

More Screens:
Screenshot 2
Screenshot 3
Screenshot 4
Screenshot 5

Movie: Click here to download
.mov file. Download link from Nintendo.com

Bottom's up, the game could have a sooner then expected release date too, as what was shown seems to have been in work for a long time!

[will dogg]

Nintendo seem to be releasing alot of games with numbers at the end. What ever happened to originality?

[Judgment]

heh i dident see this thread :S sorry about creating a different on Lee