I'm sorry, I didn't have time to update it yesterday for some reason, so I'll make it up now. There will be a chapter around 8 o'clock tonight, I hope you will forgive me!

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This year is the fifth edition of E3, and since this year, the venue of the exhibition has been moved back to the Los Angeles Convention Center from the Atlanta World Convention Center, and it is said that the reason is that most game companies in the United States are concentrated in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, and most manufacturers feel very inconvenient to rush to Atlanta every year.

Last year's E3 exhibition gave the impression of a world of 3D games, and even the monogram of E3 was changed to a full 3D image with a three-dimensional sense of space for the first time. And this year's exhibition, the most direct feeling is that the war is the war, even before the exhibition begins, the prelude has been opened.

The day before the start of the E3 exhibition, Nintendo and Panasonic suddenly held a joint press conference in Tokyo, Japan, officially released the development plan of a new generation of game consoles - "Dolphin", and also announced in detail some details of the "Dolphin" console, such as the "Gekko (moonlight)" 400MHz processor provided by IBM, The image processor developed by ArtX and other companies, especially the DVD-ROM derived from Panasonic, is the most eye-catching, and some people even say that when a Nintendo spokesperson spit out the letters "DVD" from his mouth, it also caused many game developers to cheer.

"The game world is facing a major turning point...... "President Hiroshi Yamauchi said impassionedly at the press conference, as if he had returned to the beginning of its former glory.

When a reporter asked about the development of the game, Yamauchi said, "...... The game will be developed by Nintendo and its partner companies,...... We are not interested in the Third Society. First of all, Nintendo will be mainly responsible for game development, and if he can have a good plan, we can do a backup consideration...... Nintendo will not change its attitude......"

This speech immediately made some of the game developers present cool down, and they couldn't help muttering in their hearts: "Dare you Nintendo still don't look down on us third parties, so what should everyone do in the future, you better play by yourself!"

On the same day, Nintendo North America also held a press conference in Raymont, but as a data party, Minoru Arakawa also mentioned some games that will appear on the "Dolphin" console in the future, but his focus is still on the performance of the "Dolphin" console, such as how much stronger the "Moonlight" processor is than the EE of PS2, how much memory bandwidth and so on.

However, Sony, Sega and other companies are silent at this time, and the situation seems a bit abnormal......

On May 13th, the long-awaited E3 show for gamers and the gaming community finally kicked off at the Convention Center in the southwest corner of Los Angeles. The renovated convention center has been expanded to accommodate more than 14 Boeing 747 aircraft. Around 400 companies participated in the exhibition, which exhibited a total of 2,600 products in 13 categories, of which 1,900 were games for computer and console platforms, including action, adventure (decryption), role-playing, simulation, sports (racing), strategy and many other genres, and even games developed specifically for women.

Ye Tiantian is a native of the north, but his family lives in Shanghai, and he was originally just an ordinary person who loves games, but by chance, he joined the Shanghai branch of Ubisoft in France and became one of the members of the game development department. He was also lucky to be one of the E3 exhibits that Ubisoft had organized to participate in, and even more fortunately, he was not assigned any other tasks after completing the preliminary preparations, but instead received a three-day vacation and a manufacturer's pass, perhaps as a reward for his hard work during the preparations.

Los Angeles in May is a city full of life and flowers, and in every way, it can be called an ideal West Coast tourist city, according to a colleague who participated in the E3 exhibition in the previous two years, it is much better than Atlanta, which is known as the largest city in the South. However, as a person who loves games, Ye Tiantian will definitely not do anything to leave the game exhibition in front of him and go to the street to wander around, so at nine o'clock in the morning of the first day of the exhibition, he arrived at the venue on time, hung up his badge, and walked into the Los Angeles Convention Center.

After a glimpse of the venue, Ye Tiantian's first feeling was that it was lively and crowded, but I heard from my colleagues that it didn't seem to be as good as last year, maybe because there were too many sequels, like "Diablo 2", "Age of Empires 2", "Dungeon Guardians 2", "Adventure King 2", "Civilization 3" and other "new games" with 2 or 3, or like "Sweeping the Kingdom of a Thousand Armies" It's a sequel in another form, but for someone like him who is attending E3 for the first time, he doesn't take these aspects into account, anyway, everything is so new to him.

Ye Tiantian's second feeling at the exhibition is the impact of film on the game industry, Los Angeles is worthy of being a city close to Hollywood, and even the film industry is indispensable at professional game exhibitions. Perhaps because of the release of a popular movie "Star Wars Prequel: Phantom Crisis" in May, not only the action game of the same name produced by Lucas Art and the racing game "Speed Shuttle" from China were included in the exhibition, but even a game called "Pharaoh" produced by Xuele Mountain was prominently printed on the flyer with the advertising slogan "Every trilogy has a prequel".

The old company Fox Films, which also has its own game company, but has always been in the obscure category, came to the exhibition to bring an action game based on the old movie "The World of the Ape-Man", which tells the story of humans sending astronauts on an expedition to space, only to find that the rulers of the earth have become a group of gorillas. The story is very old-fashioned, but Fox is worthy of playing movies, and the booth is more attractive than ordinary companies, and Ye Tiantian's mouth was almost closed in surprise when he saw it for the first time.

The first thing that caught Ye Tiantian's eye was a huge, half-buried Statue of Liberty, as if hinting at the decline of human civilization in the game. Behind the Statue of Liberty is a large iron cage with two unclothed men and women on display to the public like animals, the man is still holding a wooden stick in his hand, knocking on the cage from time to time, as if to express the last trace of resistance, while the woman sits in the cage, her eyes are full of despair and helplessness.

Around the cage stood several well-dressed and imposing "gorilla guards", meticulously as if they were real guards. When Ye Tiantian came over, he happened to meet this group of "gorilla guards" pulling a woman as if he was going to march, and after meeting him, the gorillas immediately made the woman kneel down, and then waved the leather whip in his hand to pose a fierce look.

The scene that suddenly appeared in front of him frightened Ye Tiantian, but fortunately, some of his companions knew the routine, so he immediately took out his camera and took pictures of the gorillas with a smile, and he realized that what was in front of him was just a performance. Although it is a performance, Ye Tiantian is still amazed by the fineness of the gorilla's makeup, and the costumes of these gorillas in front of him are up to the professional level in the movie, and the rubber hood vividly portrays the face of the orangutan, not only young and strong orangutans, but also old orangutans with white hair. What especially made Ye Tiantian rush was that the combination between the orangutan face and the actor's eyes was so natural that even if he looked at it from a very close distance, he couldn't tell it at all.

Also as a film company, Disney, who came from animation, still seems to be very different from Fox's style, and the largest number of cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck played by real people in the huge booth are still very different, or cartoon models with rich postures. But the most interesting thing is the Buzz Lightyear from "Toy Story" on the scene, in the movie Buzz is a self-righteous trendy toy, and this Buzz played by a real person is a smiling guy, moving his plastic body from time to time, and frequently appearing around the booth, which made Ye Tiantian still run over with great interest and took several photos with him before giving up.

The exhibition will never be indispensable for beautiful women to help, and the same is true for the E3 exhibition, when Ye Tian Tian walks around the venue, he will meet all kinds of beautiful girls from time to time, some of them are dressed as game characters and pose for POSE, such as Laura, whose popularity has always been high, and the model who plays it not only has to take photos with overly enthusiastic visitors, but also constantly changes various POSE in the interval between group photos. In addition to this kind of cosplay-like fashion show, there are also those who perform hot dances on stage, or stop in corridors and stairwells and other choke points to distribute information, and other small tidbits such as flying T-shirts to the audience and performing beauty shots can be seen everywhere, and some relatively large scales also make Ye Tiantian, who went abroad for the first time, blush and heartbeat.

It is said that the United States is a country that lives on wheels, and Ye Tiantian was originally limited to some simple introductions on TV or books, but this E3 trip made him know that this was true. It is said that the imprint of car culture is deeply imprinted on every level of American culture, and games are no exception.

Activision, one of the famous game publishing companies, had a huge bus on the ground at its booth, and a lot of the display work was carried out directly inside the bus, and according to a companion of Ye Tiantian, Activision was like this at the E3 exhibition a few years ago, and even the license plate of the bus was not changed. 3DFX, the most popular developer of 3D graphics cards in the past two years, brought the Voodoo 3, a sharp weapon to try to fight back against the many pursuers behind them, and their booth was parked with a beautiful red Volkswagen Beetle, and the shell was specially sprayed with the 3DFX logo.

The coolest thing is the booth of Ye Tiantian's owner's Ubisoft company, not to mention the area of thousands of square meters, hundreds of exhibitors, many new game displays and special Lehman cartoons, just the black sports car of Batman is the envy of many others. According to the mechanic who was guarding the Batmobile, the car was an authentic Warner prop truck, and it was specially driven from the studio, and it was this car that Chris O'Donnell drove in the movie. According to the mechanic, the body of the Batmobile is made of fiberglass, and it is not an empty shell of a prop, and it can be actually driven. Not only does the Batmobile have engines that can easily reach speeds of up to 140 kilometers per hour, but also six special rocket vents mounted in the tail that can shoot flames by burning alcohol when the switch is pressed. The attraction of the real guy is different, the Batmobile is surrounded by onlookers, and if it weren't for the guard, many people might not be able to help but get their hands on the car in front of them, and even get into it to experience it.

Ye Tiantian is a PC party, of course, this is mainly related to the environment he is in, in the early years he also played Nintendo red and white machine to start, and later went through the glory period of Super Nintendo and Sega MD consoles, gradually with the rise of computer games, and the lag in the development of domestic home game consoles, his interest has gradually shifted to the source and more abundant types of computers, so at this exhibition, he is mainly interested in computer games.

I saw a lot of news about computer games at the E3 exhibition, and there were two of them that Ye Tiantian cared about the most, one was the demo of the PC version of "Final Fantasy 8", in fact, two days before the show started, he heard that Square Enix planned to bring "Final Fantasy 8" Ported to the computer, he didn't expect to see the demo of the game at the exhibition not long after, so it seems that the news about the transplant that came out before is not groundless, and his heart can't help but be full of expectations for this, after all, the computer platform has enough potential to achieve a more perfect performance than the PS version in terms of character details and facial expressions from the perspective of graphics.

Another news that Ye Tiantian cares about is the resurgence of "civilization", since Sid Meier left MicroProse, "Civilization 2" has almost become a swan song, although MicroProse has not given up this cash cow, and has also launched a large number of expansion packs to make money, but without Sid Meier, "Civilization" is like no soul, and it is a regret for many players again and again. Now the regret can finally be put down, Ye Tiantian passed by Activision's booth, and found that there was a promotional poster marked "Civilization 3" inside, and only after asking did he know that Activision acquired MicroProse at the end of last year, and hooked up with Sid Meier's re-established Firaxis company a month ago, one party owns the copyright of "Civilization", and the other party has always wanted to develop a new version of "Civilization" , as if dry wood met fire, the two sides soon hit it off, so after many years, Sid Meier led the development of "Civilization" again.

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