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E3 is going on right now. There have been tons of new announcements, trailers and game play. This year in particular is showing games that look amazing. Some games that I didn’t think would ever come out already have game play footage at E3 (ex. Far Cry 3). I want to talk about some of the biggest things and some of my personal favorites of E3. Expect many more to come in throughout the rest of the week. These are only a couple of the amazing games that are being shown!

Far Cry 3 is actually coming out. I never thought it would actually come out. Far Cry 2 was an amazing game but it had it’s downfalls. Well, it had things that it lacked in. Nothing was really wrong with the game. Most of these lacks were in single player combat. Your character is slow-moving and weapons are hard to switch through. I notice that Far Cry 3 has brutal stealth attacks and the ability to collect items from dead enemies. The game play also showed that you collect money (cash). The system of collecting diamonds in Far Cry 2 was a general disappointment for me. I also noticed that the storyline will probably be easier too follow. Far Cry 2 had a bland plot line that made the game’s storyline missions challenging to enjoy. Far Cry 3 presents multiple characters who all have individual and diverse personalities. I think these elements will be very helpful for Far Cry 3 to have a great single player. I know one thing that made Far Cry 2 great was the graphics. Far Cry 2 had beautiful trees, lakes, rivers, mountains, jungles, caves, deserts, everything! Far Cry 3’s graphics are noticeably better. I hated the murky, brown water of  Far Cry 2. Far Cry 3 has nice, clear water effects. While there are countless more reasons to be excited for Far Cry 3, I think the best thing Far Cry 3 could have would be a map editor. The map editor in Far Cry 2 was a game on it’s own. I think that the map editor would be even cooler if you could add AI enemies and friends to the fight with or against. That would also lead too CO-OP game modes which could be a lot of fun. While the map editor is a hope, the game play footage shows that Far Cry 3 will have a better plot line and better game play mechanics all brought together with beautiful graphics!

Battlefield 3 will be taking shooters too the next level. It uses Frostbite 2. The latest version of the famous, sweetish-made Frostbite engine. Frostbite 2 has the latest in rendering, water effects, sound effects, lighting effects, physics and more. This engine will also allow buildings to be fully destroyed. All of this will be shown in Battlefield 3’s epic single player story and the world-famous Battlefield multiplayer.

Dead Island is a role-playing action game set on a beautiful island paradise, a tropical Las Vegas. You play as a vacationer who goes to the island and a zombie virus spreads around the island. The small number of survivors on this lost-paradise have to fight for their lives and have to use anything to fight the zombies. But Dead Island is more than a kill-fest. You can travel all around the island to group survivors and help rebuild human civilization while fighting the zombies. Dead Island introduces a lot of neat elements to make this even more fun than it sounds. The zombies have layers of skin, flesh and bone to make the gore more realistic, and it makes you sound smart when talking about it.

Call of Juarez: The Cartel is the third Call of Juarez game. Unlike the older Call of Juarez games, that were all old-west games set in the 1800s. You play in modern-day Los Angles and Mexico. America is on the brink of war with Mexico. A powerful drug Cartel is taking over Mexico but the Mexican government doesn’t want the U.S. to intervene, even after the Cartel’s lieutenants attack police in Los Angles, California. So instead of having an army’s worth of cops go to Mexico. They send three highly skilled but brutally violent police officers, each from different departments. “Instead of sending a lot of good cops, why not try a couple bad cops”. One of these bad cops is a hard-edged, “manly-man” war veteran and police officer from the LAPD (Los Angles Police Department). Another is a highly respected woman of the FBI, she is considered the mature one of the group although she is the young one too. And last is an immature but funny DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) agent, ironically, he has a gambling problem. All of these characters can be played as in CO-OP mode. Having equally important characters work with each other is nothing new for the Call of Juarez team. Which is good, the previous two Call of Juarez games had a lot of great elements. It had linear missions mixed with very open world free play. You could go to weapon shops and buy guys and ammo, you could fulfill different bounties. It was a lot of fun. I hope this new Call of Juarez game will have those same great features.