South Park: The Fractured But Whole: 8/10. I have no interest in South Park and didn't play the first game, but this was a pleasant surprise. Seems like a high quality licensed product and an interesting concept for a followup to Stick of Truth. I really appreciated Trey and Matt immediately shitting on the goofy looking mics, it's a good thing. Aisha Tyler is such a great host, she handled a real, unscripted moment really well.
For Hono(u)r: 9/10. This was pretty cool. Like a mashup of a Musou type game and Chivalry stuff and the AC combat animations. Demoed well. A lot of the games doing well that feel like this are made by smaller companies, it'll be interesting to see what a full price retail package looks like in the genre.
The Crew DLC: 0/10. No one asked for this.
Trials Fusion DLC: 6/10. Pretty cool trailer, like the Blood Dragon team got creative input on Trials Fusion DLC.
The Division: 1/10. Frankly this is a really good concept for a game that looked visually amazing on reveal and has been absolutely boring ever since. This is year three of the same demo with the same cover shooting, the same fake staged teamplay stuff. It shocks me how dull this seems.
Anno 2205: 10/10. This looked brilliant. Excellent, beautiful visual design, a logical expansion in scope of the series. The moon colony looked spectacular. This is easily Ubi's best and most reliable property. Best-of-breed for sure. And I'm so glad they gave time to a genre that's not normally associated with public-facing demos.
Just Dance: 2/10. Another year, another live music performance (Jason DeRulo is most notable for singing his own name in his songs), and it's still not a good game. *shrugs* The streaming karaoke service is unusual, not sure it'll quite work as well as karaoke music does. By far the most interesting thing of the Just Dance segment, anyway.
Rainbow Six Siege: 7/10. CG trailer was stupid, made me think Splinter Cell or conventional Rainbow Six. Angela Bassett is a-ok but I'm not sure there's much point interviewing a VA for a shooter. It's a shooter. It's not a complicated narrative drama. The trailer was stupid because I thought this was a fun multiplayer-focused game about rescuing hostages from mini-mansions and the trailer and the interview makes it sound like a campaign shooter about global politics, which is like 87,500 times less interesting. The game demo was OK but less interesting then last year. I feel like this is a bigger project than I thought and that's going to make it less interesting than I thought. Maybe they just led with a scenario that I like better than the one they demoed here. Anyway, hope it turns out well.
Trackmania Consoles: 7/10. New environment looked ok, seemed fast enough, track building UI was good. Wish they had not cocked up the release on PC. What happened to Shootmania and RPGMania? LOL.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: 2/10. Sorry Kabouter. I respect you as a person. These are not good or interesting games. Stupid Sware on me Mum, M8 level cartoonish Englishme. The use of guns in the series is so commonplace now it'll be a WW2 shooter before I notice. Seven cities? So that's what, one city for every five development teams working on it?
Rogue Warrior: Ghost Recon: Far Cry 6: The Division: Wow Brah I Blew Your Nuts Off with a Shotgun: Mercenaries are cool: My Stealth Option Is I Blow Up Your Entire Base with a Bomb: Adrenaline Junkie Drone Wars: Vote Bush 2016: A Tier 1 Special Op: Pre-Order Edition: Wow That Guy Did A Lot of HGH: A Pawn Stars Game: Damn How Many Bars You Gonna Fill?: 3/10. This was Ubisoft the game. I have rated it accordingly.
Aisha Tyler murdering RenFaire Ezio in the audience was pretty good. She's such a good host. Hope when one of the white dudes who host late night TV keels over someone gives her a shot. She's great on the crappy daytime talk show they stuck her on, she's great here, she's great on Whose Line. Aisha Tyler 10/10 now 10/10 forever. Overall a pretty good conference with good pacing and some strong content, better than usual for Ubisoft. Pretty happy with it.
