STACK NZ Jul #75

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That's an E3 fact... A staggering audience of 42 million watched E3 content on Twitch.

Call of Duty: InfiniteWarfare

That's an E3 fact... From the 70,000 attendees, 50,300 were video game developers, analysts and journalists.

to get the haters when ‘Call of Dooty’ is even mentioned, but we’re eager to see what Infinity Ward are going to deliver here,

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Day Two. Los Angeles began its Wednesday morning shrouded in a veil of ‘June Gloom’ cloud, but the mood within the Convention Center couldn’t have been more different. STACK kicked off its day with a look at Carmageddon  and the World War II shooter  Sniper Elite 4 ; the slow-mo sniper kills are still uncomfortably satisfying. It’s a credit to Microsoft that just about everything on its booth was hands-on. Forza Horizon 3 , based in the diverse environments of our own great country, was a standout on the new slim Xbox One S; racing through Byron Bay has never looked so good. Like the aforementioned Microsoft, all of Ubisoft’s titles were playable in a press area just off the main booth. Thankfully we were spared the horrendous Just Dance live demos this year, meaning we could actually hear everything the devs were telling

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because what we’ve seen of it – albeit purely visual – looks interesting, including the off-rails space battles that resemble Ace Combat on steroids. A final treat was watching a

play-through of Crew Expendable  – the second mission from the classic Call of Duty: Modern Warfare  remastered for this generation of consoles. It looks, as you would expect, incredible, and despite completing the entire game innumerable times since its first release nine years ago, this is one title you can be sure we’ll be playing again come November.

Onto the maddening throng of E3 itself. Three hours with Sony offered a closer look at Gran Turismo Sport  (possibly the first racing game over the last decade that we haven’t crashed into a wall within 20 seconds), and theatre presentations including Detroit: Become Human , thrilling new IP Days Gone,  and of course the mighty God of War, replete with a new Norse mythology setting.

The day concluded with Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare . We were hoping to get some hands-on here, but the meeting consisted of visual presentations only, in which an additional mission set in

us. Watchdogs 2  and Ghost Recon Wildlands were the picks from a quality line-up, after a solid half hour with each. Square Enix have possibly the biggest slate we can recall seeing at E3. The dark Deus Ex: Mankind Divided  playthrough demonstrated how the hacking difficulty has been increased in the game, and how diverse the combat options will be when it releases this August. Day two concluded with a trip

Sniper Elite 4

Geneva was shown alongside the space- themed demo unveiled at the Sony Press Conference the evening before. You’re always going

That's an E3 fact... More than 1600 products were on display.

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