20th April 2006, 7:28 AM
Okay girls this is the weekend countdown, we're on the 20th and Nintendo Power, EGM, the Game Informer website, and IGN all claim to be holding revolution screenshots and videos ripe for the uploading. It could litteraly be any day now, i'm guessing it will be the friday update (tomorrow) for a big weekend push. i donnt expect too much, but here's what I think we'll be getting:
1.) Alot of announced titles, mostly game descriptions.
2.) More screens and video from Ubisoft's Red Steel, NIBRIS Raid over the River and Sadness details, as well as some other third party stuff, expect Sega to keep quiet as well as Retro and probably Capcom. This is going to be a THQ, Ubisoft, EA and basically all the publishers and developers who ignored GC-unveiling.
3.) Full previews of games such as Red Steel from hands on experience as well as a plethora of third party titles. It's going to be like Spongebob from THQ (which was just demoed), and possibly Spiderman 3 (this is activision's big gun, expect them to quiet with spidey) and tony Hawk: Downhill Jam from Activision with in-depth looks.
dont expect to see Mario or Metroid Prime 3 or even Zelda TP news, this is basically going to be a mini E3 release of info for Nintendo's third parties with most first and close 2nd party news to be held until E3, though some people who are no longer under ND may spill some beans, dont expect offocial statements from Nini and the like.
if Nintendo's second parties were to release anything, it would probably be info about Animal Crossing Wild World 2 and Battalion Wars: Revolution and maybe some hints on the cooking game.
Spiderman 3 (preview, maybe a screenshot)
Pangya Golf (I expect alot of info here, its a launch game)
Tony Hawk: Downhill Jam (pics, movies)
Red Steel (pics movies)
Tomb Raider: Legend (announced, maybe pics)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicals (really officially announced this time *maybe)
Possibly capcom info (doubtful, maybe Killer7 2 details)
Possibly sega info (doubtful, maybe sonic details, possibly more info about the virtual console)
Anything else that's been kept a secret up to now, such as Radical's projects (not free radical, though I believe they've been working with the dev kits too)
And finally, some current X360 games that are getting ported to rev, I think Tomb Raider is going to be the flasghip port and it may end up being one of the first games (if not THE first) to use the Revolution shell design to show off how a ported game will work flawlessly. If this is the case, expect Tomb raider Legends to have almost no revcon support except maybe that using the shell design, you can move the controller to change the camera or free-look in first person mode, nothing spectacular) i could also see Sega announcing that Monkey Ball Adventure will have rev functionality in the same way Zelda: TP is with the revcon.
but ultimately its up to the devs and sites if they want to release any info, what makes sense is that other than Red Steel no other third party company has been able to start hyping their games for Rev, so I think they'll be excited to get some info out before E3 in order to get people interested in thier projects and start their own hype machines. These are all theories and we could actually end up with nothing this weekend; Magic 8 Ball says all signs point to maybe.
1.) Alot of announced titles, mostly game descriptions.
2.) More screens and video from Ubisoft's Red Steel, NIBRIS Raid over the River and Sadness details, as well as some other third party stuff, expect Sega to keep quiet as well as Retro and probably Capcom. This is going to be a THQ, Ubisoft, EA and basically all the publishers and developers who ignored GC-unveiling.
3.) Full previews of games such as Red Steel from hands on experience as well as a plethora of third party titles. It's going to be like Spongebob from THQ (which was just demoed), and possibly Spiderman 3 (this is activision's big gun, expect them to quiet with spidey) and tony Hawk: Downhill Jam from Activision with in-depth looks.
dont expect to see Mario or Metroid Prime 3 or even Zelda TP news, this is basically going to be a mini E3 release of info for Nintendo's third parties with most first and close 2nd party news to be held until E3, though some people who are no longer under ND may spill some beans, dont expect offocial statements from Nini and the like.
if Nintendo's second parties were to release anything, it would probably be info about Animal Crossing Wild World 2 and Battalion Wars: Revolution and maybe some hints on the cooking game.
Spiderman 3 (preview, maybe a screenshot)
Pangya Golf (I expect alot of info here, its a launch game)
Tony Hawk: Downhill Jam (pics, movies)
Red Steel (pics movies)
Tomb Raider: Legend (announced, maybe pics)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicals (really officially announced this time *maybe)
Possibly capcom info (doubtful, maybe Killer7 2 details)
Possibly sega info (doubtful, maybe sonic details, possibly more info about the virtual console)
Anything else that's been kept a secret up to now, such as Radical's projects (not free radical, though I believe they've been working with the dev kits too)
And finally, some current X360 games that are getting ported to rev, I think Tomb Raider is going to be the flasghip port and it may end up being one of the first games (if not THE first) to use the Revolution shell design to show off how a ported game will work flawlessly. If this is the case, expect Tomb raider Legends to have almost no revcon support except maybe that using the shell design, you can move the controller to change the camera or free-look in first person mode, nothing spectacular) i could also see Sega announcing that Monkey Ball Adventure will have rev functionality in the same way Zelda: TP is with the revcon.
but ultimately its up to the devs and sites if they want to release any info, what makes sense is that other than Red Steel no other third party company has been able to start hyping their games for Rev, so I think they'll be excited to get some info out before E3 in order to get people interested in thier projects and start their own hype machines. These are all theories and we could actually end up with nothing this weekend; Magic 8 Ball says all signs point to maybe.