At their E3 press conference today, Microsoft showed off plenty of cross platform stuff. The latest iterations of Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, Rock Band, Tony Hawk, and Call of Duty (now under the Modern Warfare moniker) will all be on the 360. But they also showed off seven titles exclusive to the Xbox 360.
- Shadow Complex is an Xbox Live Arcade game billed as Metroid and Castlevania for the next-gen. "It's all about exploration, punctuated by moments of combat," said the presenter while demonstrating 2D gameplay in a 3D world. Then he showed off a wonderfully retro map of tiny rooms that made the Castlevania comparison clear.
- Joy Ride is a free-to-download, free-to-play, but micropay-to-play-competitively racing game in which your avatars zip around cartoon worlds in cartoon cars.
- Crackdown 2. This time, there seem to be monsters coming up from underground and some sort of infection motif. Could this be the open-world zombie apocalypse game we all want?
- Splinter Cell: Conviction re-appears. Sam Fisher goes to Washington and does more of what he's been doing all along. The demo showed the usual mini-sandbox encounters where I can already tell I'm going to be doing a lot of dying and reloading.
- Forza 3 was co-presented by an actual Audi that had been driven up on stage. The reference to gameplay rewind is intriguing.
- Halo 3: ODST drops you into New Mombasa a few weeks before the events of Halo 3. As a rookie orbital drop shock trooper separated from his squad, natch, you wander around and play flashbacks of battles other troopers fought. It'll also have some sort of co-operative firefight feature and a code to let you into the beta of Halo: Reach, which is Bungie's next project.
- Alan Wake, from the creators of the Max Payne series, looks like a combination of Lost, Northern Exposure, and Silent Hill.
via : gamespot
