If there's one thing that blew away my expectations at the show, it's Zelda. This trailer in unbelievable: http://media.nintendo.com/zelda/universe...tp_480.mov

I didn't see this posted here anywhere so...

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I know Nintendo's trying to make this fit well into home entertainment shelves, but damn. It shouldn't have to look like a sleek computer CD-ROM drive.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3140623

This also looks great. MUCH better art direction than the first game.

Told ya it's coming out here! WOO!

Well at least this looks awesome. Co-op!

Shit I knew it! Pictures to come soon.

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http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/700/700186/vids_1.html

If you haven't watched the trailer yet, do it. Do it now!

Quote:You may think you know hack and slash games, but re-think that when you consider PS3. Sony's press conference displayed one such show-stopper that blew the doors off the house, burning any doubts one may have of the next-gen graphical power. Heavenly Sword is an upcoming PS3 title that knocked the wind out of us.


The shot begins with a close-up of a woman's eye. The camera pulls back to show she has a shock of red hair with spiky bangs. She's surrounded by an entire army of baddies, armed to the teeth with spears, swords and other dangerous accessories. They've encircled her, growling and ready to rip her to shreds. The strange woman looks doomed, until her enemies unleash an attack and she has to makes short work of them all. In a acrobatic array of Jet Li-esque martial arts, our heroine leaps, evades, and kicks the hell out of each and every one of her enemies. A few of them get knocked into their comrades, taking the lot of them down like bowling pins, others end-up slammed against the wall, left to slump in a pile of broken bones. One group of unfortunate fellows ended-up skewered along a spear, shish kebob style.


Just when we thought are heroine was all about the melee combat, she shows up on screen with a device that looks like portable cannon. In the distance we see thousands of soldiers on the horizon, all of them headed in her direction. She loads her gun and fires it into the madness, taking out waves of enemies who can't run away in time. The smoke clears, and the battleground is littered with corpses. The survivors are enraged and charge at their prey, only to receive the other half of her wrath. She leaps at her crazed attackers and continues to hand-out ass whoopins' left and right. She's taking out six and ten soldiers at a time with a flurry of kicks and punches. The violence is fast, unforgiving, and overwhelmingly intense.


What's most amazing is that we were told that what we saw was all in game graphics. When you consider the detail give to every enemy including the main character, the concept it hard to believe. Nevertheless, the tech demos proved that the PS3 is a very powerful machine capable performing exquisite action on screen with all the detailed displayed in this clip. The action sequences alone flowed very much like the action in something like God of War.


The development team here originally worked on Kung-Fu Chaos, which was an exclusive Xbox title. They've since regrouped to form Ninja Theory, which is now responsible for Heavenly Sword on the PS3.

http://www.nintendo.com/e3_2005/pre_e3_2005home.html

GO NOW, IT STARTS IN 17 MINUTES

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Quote:Revolution joins the gaming wars By Steven Kent, Special for USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — The players are in place for the next video game battle of the big guns.
<table class="sidebar" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="4"></td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"></td> <td rowspan="2"></td> <td class="sidebar" valign="top" width="75">“All-access”: Revolution is meant to be flexible for designers and players alike.</td> <td rowspan="2"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="bottom">Nintendo</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Nintendo reveals details Tuesday of its new system, code-named Revolution, after Sony's announcement of the PlayStation 3 console Monday and Microsoft's unveiling of Xbox 360 on an MTV special last Thursday. (Related story: PS3 purports to pack the most power)

All the action is taking place before the annual E3 Expo, which begins Wednesday. The three gaming giants will unveil the systems there.

Microsoft is expected to have the Xbox 360 in stores first, in time for the holidays. Nintendo and Sony will follow in 2006. No prices have been set, and release dates have not been locked in.

Nintendo, whose GameCube sales have lagged, hopes to gain ground, particularly among the fast-growing older-gaming market. Revolution is about the size of a stack of three DVD cases and has no visible knobs, buttons or ports for joysticks. The system will use only wireless controllers, and it sits flat or stands vertically.

With its front-loading slot for discs, it will play games on full-size DVDs as well as older GameCube games on mini-DVDs. Like Xbox and PlayStation 2, it will play DVD movies.

Nintendo, which mostly ignored the Net with GameCube, also is catching up with the online wave. Revolution will offer broadband access to a free Internet-based player matching service, similar to Xbox Live, that also will have downloadable versions of nearly every Nintendo game — from arcade classic Donkey Kong through current titles such as Mario Sunshine. (Nintendo hasn't decided whether downloading will be free.)

Xbox spokesmen have pointed out that 360's specifications are 10 to 13 times more powerful than those of the original Xbox; Sony said Monday that the processor in Play-Station 3, which will come in several colors and be out next spring, will be 35 times more powerful than the PS2 processor.

Nintendo makes more modest claims that Revolution is two or three times more powerful than GameCube. "It's not all about having 'turbo power,' " Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan says. "It's about what you do with it."

Analyst Richard Doherty of The Envisioneering Group says one of Revolution's chief advantages is that designers will find it far easier to create games for Revolution than for competing systems. "They do not need to make major changes from the games they were designing," he says. "They have better performance without having to do a lot of extra work."

Says Kaplan: "We've built Revolution around the concept of 'all-access gaming,' " a term Nintendo uses to mean the system is easily adapted to by both gamers and designers. "We're about sticking to the soul of gaming."

Quote:E3 2005: Revolution Details Emerge Two-to-three more times powerful than GameCube.
by Matt Casamassina

May 17, 2005 - New details regarding Nintendo's next-generation console, codenamed Revolution, have started to sprinkle onto the Internet. The machine, which will be revealed during Nintendo's pre-E3 2005 show on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, will sport a slick, black design and a front blue light.

Revolution will be "two-to-three times more powerful than GameCube," according to Nintendo, which also acknowledges that the next-generation race isn't solely about new technologies. By contrast, Microsoft's Xbox 360 console is 13-15 times more powerful than the first, according to the publisher. And Sony says it's PlayStation 3 is roughly 35 times more powerful than PlayStation 2. Nintendo also revealed that using Revolution's new Wi-Fi connection, gamers would be able to go online to a free gamer-matching service. Interestingly, in a move similar to Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade service, Revolution users will be able to download classic and new Nintendo games over the Internet. Nintendo cited such examples as Donkey Kong and Super Mario Sunshine, which suggests that Revolutionaries could have access to games for all the publisher's previous consoles.