PlayStation Day Conference (KZ2, Resistance 2, LBP, MotorStorm 2, etc.)

The event just ended. Here a two liveblogs that have all the info.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6190415.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;2
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=137039

I won't quote it all, but here are a few highlights:

Killzone 2 is delayed to February 2009 (or if you're an optimist, the European release is February 2009). There's a new trailer that is basically the E3 2005 trailer in real-time. Gamevideos has it on their site, but the quality is pretty horrible.

A few new Resistance 2 details:

Still seems set for a November launch (release is 6 months from now). Should get some screens and hands-on later, although I think Gametrailers TV has the exclusive on video from the event (probably won't show it for another month or so though).

LittleBigPlanet is set for release in October, and some new details on MotorStorm 2 were revealed (including an official name, MotorStorm Pacific Rift). Some places have some new screens for the game.

PS3 has apparently outsold the 360 in Europe now:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/five-million-ps3s-sold-in-europe-says-sony

Some new content on the (European) PSN Store. I'm too busy to check it out now, but I'll probably give an update later (especially as we get more info/media from the event).

 

It sounds like it is 30 vs 30, but this just allows for it to be better organized. The better 30 player teams would probably do something similar, but Insomniac is providing objectives (along with other things) to make it easier for people to play this way (instead of trying to talk with other players in the middle of the fight about what you should do, the game would give you an objective and reward you for completing it). For example, you'll have your team of 30 players, but maybe you have a squad of medics that have to go around helping players that were injured. And maybe another squad will have to protect that squad as an objective.

I don't know. Things are still a little unclear, so maybe I interpreted it all wrong. I think they're giving the press some hands-on with the game, so maybe we'll get more clarification on how this works later on.

Yeah, I think that is the video I mentioned in my post (unless someone got a better version of it). It does look good, but the quality of the video is so horrible that it is hard to make any good judgments on how it compares to the E3 2005 trailer.

Gamersyde is the place that will have the 15 minute video. They don't have it up yet, but they do have another KZ2 video (haven't watched it yet myself):
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_6429_en.html

I guess when you have 5 years and $30M+ to make a game (and that's probably a conservative guess), you can make a game with pretty good graphics.

 

Whoa...have you guys seen Mirror's Edge before? I've seen a couple of things here and there, but it kind of flew under my radar. But I just watched the trailer they showed at the event today:
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_6428_en.html

It is by DICE (Battlefield guys), and while it was shown at a PlayStation event, it is for both 360 and PS3 (maybe PC too, not sure).

Gamersyde is slowing updating with new videos. MotorStorm just got uploaded (haven't downloaded it yet).

edit: Youtube version of ME trailer:
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Gamersyde has (part) of the gameplay video now:
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_6429_en.html
The 15 minute video turned into a 5 minute video divided into 2 parts. Apparently the guy playing the game sucked, so they cut out some things.

Some previews for Resistance 2 were posted (IGN, Gamespot):
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/871/871976p1.html

More at the link.

There was a video at Gamevideos for Resistance 2, but it was taken down (like I said earlier, I think GTTV has the exclusive on R2 gameplay videos). I think you can get it here though:
http://www.mediafire.com/?dfdzyyzh4an
I downloaded it before it was taken down, so I'm not 100% that link works. BTW, this video has horrible quality, similar to the earlier KZ2 video I mentioned. I thought I'd post it though since we (probably) won't get any video for the game in a while.

MotorStorm 2 looked a bit disappointing to me. Still really early and knowing Evolution Studios, they'll probably improve the graphics quite a bit in the upcoming months. But I expected it to look a little better. Oh well, I guess that's what you get with Pre-Alpha builds.

 

Gamersyde has part 2 of the KZ2 video up now:
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_6429_en.html

Also forgot to mention earlier that they have a LBP video as well.

 

Like KZ2, I think it got delayed to 2009 as well.

Wow, didn't notice this about the LBP video:

 

The impression I'm getting is that you can do that, you just won't get any bonus XP for doing so. Sounds like completing your objectives and taking out rival squads gives you (more?) XP, which you can use to improve your performance and the performance of your squad/team. I'm guessing players don't have to follow objectives at all, but it probably won't get them very far, especially if the other team is completing their objectives.

Wouldn't doubt it if there was a game mode to turn off these extra options, although it would probably be for unranked play where you can customize the options for a map.

Forgot to specifically mention that this was a European event. Singstar has been out in Europe since late 2007 IIRC. I think they did talk about how it is selling (something like every user has bought 6+ songs IIRC), but that was about it.

Hmm...actually, I think recall reading about Singstar 2 for the PS3, although I don't remember if that was at this event or not (maybe just a rumor?). Since the US hasn't even received the first game yet AFAIK, I didn't really pay much attention.