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The 21 best game trailers of E3 2017

2017-06-16T12:00:39-04:00

Rejoice, for E3 is over for another year, and we can all take a breath. The world's biggest video games trade show brings such a flurry of news that it's hard to stop and take it in before you're whisked to the next keynote, the next conference, or the next big reveal.

It's only now, with E3 over, that we can really take time to look back at some of the most impressive, intriguing, or downright bizarre games to get announced or outlined further at the show. Below you'll find some of the trailers that are worth rewatching - or that you might have missed - from the last week.

Super Mario Odyssey

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God of War director used John Woo’s masterpiece to sell the developer on his huge idea

2017-06-15T16:42:16-04:00

Last E3, Cory Barlog revealed a wildly ambitious plan for his update on God of War: the game would take place in a single, uninterrupted shot. This year, the director shared that, in the early days of production, some members of the development team were hesitant to take on the ambitious plan. So, to show the power of the film technique when done well, he screened the hospital scene from John Woo's action movie masterpiece, Hard Boiled.

"There's that great one shot [in Hard Boiled]," Barlog said, "where Tequila and, I can never remember the other guy's name, are shooting there way into the hospital. They end up having a conversation as they …

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God of War director: there will be no quick time events

2017-06-15T15:19:40-04:00

Sony's new God of War on PS4 will be the first game in the series to ditch quick time events, according to its director Cory Barlog. The franchise is arguably most responsible for popularizing the quick time event design, which allows players to have minimal input into elaborate and cinematic action sequences.

Typically referred to as QTEs, the design requires players to obey an on-screen button prompt with precise timing (e.g., tapping the triangle button as it flashes on screen). Failing a QTE typically triggers a fail state, beginning the sequence all over again.

In typical QTEs for the franchise, which debuted in 2005, Kratos performs …

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PS4’s exclusive zombie game Days Gone deserves a chance to be itself

2017-06-15T12:04:32-04:00

An extended demonstration of Days Gone came a few announcements into PlayStation's E3 press event, surrounded by the rest of the console's upcoming releases. This is fitting placement for a game that, as it's being presented in behind-closed-doors sessions, feels buried beneath the features of its contemporaries, never elucidating how or if it will be ready to break loose and establish its own identity.

Finally, a video game set beneath sequoia

An open-world zombie game, Days Gone follows the members of a motorcycle-club-cum-survivalist-group stationed in the Pacific Northwest, raising the question: is there a tax incentive to set video game …

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Spider-Man developer: you can’t murder villains by tossing them off skyscrapers

2017-06-14T15:09:40-04:00

If you paid close attention to the 9-minute Spider-Man demo at Sony's E3 2017 event, you might have noticed the superhero knocking a goon off a skyscraper - only to sling him safely back onto the building. Bryan Intihar, creative director of Insomniac Games, explained that the game won't allow players to use Spidey's abilities to kill villains, or anybody else for that matter.

"We wouldn't not allow that," said Intihar. "Marvel would not allow that, the world would not allow that."

Intihar didn't provide specifics about how the game prevents Spider-Man from committing first-degree murder, or you know, accidentally bumpy somebody a little t …

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Far Cry 5 may have something to say, but its E3 demo focuses on the usual wacky combat

2017-06-13T15:00:02-04:00

Far Cry 5's announcement rode in on a wave of controversy. Where past games took players to far-off lands where the player murdered the locals, Far Cry 5 is set in a small Montana county. The enemy is a group of largely white Americans. Its heroes are a ragtag group of resistance fighters, fighting against a cult - a group whose imagery is drenched in patriotic Americana and Christian symbols.

But its first demo, for all of the conversations around the change to the game, felt largely like the Far Cry games that preceded it - its Montana location serving less as a statement than as a playground.

A great deal of buzz around the game has bee …

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Why Monster Hunter World is one of the biggest announcements at E3

2017-06-13T07:00:06-04:00

Sony's E3 keynote wasn't too big on major reveals, largely focusing on known quantities like God of War and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. There was one announcement, however, that really did shock me despite not even making it into our roundup of the event: Monster Hunter World, a new game coming next year for PS4, Xbox One, and later PC.

I don't blame my colleague Chaim for omitting it - Monster Hunter has never quite broken through in the West, and its presence in Sony's keynote probably left a lot of viewers nonplussed. But trust me, Monster Hunter World is huge news. Here's why.

What is Monster Hunter?

Monster Hunter is an action-RPG seri …

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Hidden Agenda is a PS4 crime thriller party game where your phone is the controller

2017-06-13T05:31:04-04:00

One of my favorite PS4 games is Until Dawn, Supermassive's cinematic horror adventure from 2015. The game took Heavy Rain's branching story structure and applied it to a self-aware slasher tale, which felt like a much more natural fit - even if you made the wrong call and let a character die in an gory instant, the story would just keep going. And though it was a single-player game by design, it turned out to work really well with a bunch of people on a sofa yelling frantic instructions to the player.

For Supermassive's next game, the British studio is expanding on that idea. Hidden Agenda is a new narrative-driven PS4 crime thriller that's …

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Sony at E3 2017: the 6 most important PlayStation announcements

2017-06-12T23:10:04-04:00

Sony's E3 presentation may not have had a lot in the form of new announcements, with most of the trailers and news offering new clips and extended looks on already revealed games.

That said, there were some interesting notes and a few surprises. We've rounded up the most important ones here.

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy reveals its MacGuffin in new story trailer

The Lost Legacy is the first Uncharted game to not star Nathan Drake, but our new heroes - Uncharted 2 treasure hunter Chloe Frazer and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End mercenary Nadine Ross - don't seem to be straying too far from the series' roots. This time? They're after the tusk of Gan …

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Bungie is bumping up Destiny 2’s console release date to September 6th

2017-06-12T22:25:38-04:00

Bungie will release Destiny 2 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on September 6th, two days before the official launch date Bungie announced at the game's reveal event last month. The new release date was slipped into the very end of the newest cinematic trailer for Destiny 2, which Sony showed off here at its E3 press conference. Soon after, publisher Activision also confirmed the PC release date - almost two months later, on October 24th.

It was originally assumed that this new release date was a PlayStation exclusive, part of Sony's ongoing deal with Bungie and publisher Activision that's lasted since the original game's launch in September …

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