Teknocast

Yesterday in Sony’s E3 conference, it was announced that a new game, like LittleBigPlanet, was going to be released for the PS3. This game is called ModNation Racers. I didn’t catch when it will be on the shelves or how much it will retail for. What I did catch though was a excellent live demo!

This game lets you become very creative! You can make you own little racer, with different costumes, hair styles, you can even make it look like a monkey. To go with your little guy, the game lets you make your own car. Now I doubt that it goes like Forza Motorsport and lets you use new engines and such, but I know you can change styles of car, colours, maybe even stickers. This is where it gets even better! You can make race tracks too, sand, tarmac, everything from houses to sheep. Like the Far Cry map editor, you can raise land, to create snow topped mountains. Then once your masterpiece is finished you can race on it, with AI, straight away!

Like LittleBigPlanet, you can rate characters, cars and tracks. I don’t think it will compete with LBP, but it will obviously be a great little game! If I had a PS3 in my room, I’d definitely get this game!

Ok, so I am writing this as I see it. It will be made up of short sentences. I may make a edited informative version later. I hope you enjoy the first post for Teknocast!

There is a montage of games on animated televisions. There is wooing and clapping. Jack Tretton takes the stage. 364 games this year. 40 by 80 behind him, PS3 gives that quality. We’ll see why 2009 will be PS3’s best year ever, better than 2008. Catering for all tastes. He now talks about PS2 at $99. PS2 out sold next gen consoles in it’s 9 year life. They wont kill PS2 as long as consumers like it. 2000 titles for PS2. Perfect family console with games for everyone, 100 new games this year. Today’s PS2 users are next years PS3’s users. PSN monster year 2008, 24 million worldwide, they hope for more this year. He’s talking about inFAMOUS, he says it’s a blockbuster title. 35 exclusive titles this year for playstation. Uncharted 2 multiplayer beta. Now a demo. It looks great, lots of jumping and moving. Covering quite Gear of War-y. You can knock things over for cover. Helicopter missles the building, they are in control while it falls. It looks awesome! Clapping. Now a game called MAG. Everyone is excited. Online scenario, a lot of players! Air strikes, anti air. Commander can set tasks for his group. Looks a bit like COD, graphics wise. Taking bases have advantages, when they took a place. Now they have a closer spawn point and now can use airstrikes. 250 players at one time? I am sure he said that. Now PSP. Content and services have improved, Skype, Internet Radio. PSP has good games, Final Fantasy, etc. PSP is best for good portable games, saying anything about the DS?:P . Rock Band Unplugged out next week. PSP will reach to younger children, Hannah Montana PSP, lots of clapping. Got Disney and Nickelodeon games. CEO and President of Sony on now. They wanted to know how to make the PSP better, which lead design and feature of the next PSP. For people who like digital stuff, not CDS, DVDs, stuff, this PSP is great according to him. Called PSP Go! It slides down. It wont replace UMD nor PSP 3000. Great screen, same great OS and Wi-Fi. 50% smaller and 40% lighter than original PSP. You can download Games and such from PSN (which is free, dig at 360?). New app to access PSN on PC, called Media Go, out today. Increase in Music on PSP recently, new Music app, sense me. Will create playlists on the mood of songs you select. This year going to lower the price of PSP tool case. You can get games of PSN or UMD. PSP Go show Sony offers future of technology. $249.99 in USA. Out November 1st in Japan, maybe same for USA? They’re adding new content to the store, from Manga, G4, and many more. More content, easier to get on your PSP. Entertainment, everywhere. Kazunouri Yamauchi from the company that makes GranTurismo PSP. GT PSP is a proper GT. 800 cars. Single player, mission mode. It’s not a smaller version of the series, even though it’s on the PSP. You can race with up to 4 players. You can trade cars with other players. By the way this guy is speaking Japanese and has a translator, some how he is calm. Now there is a video of GT PSP, clapping. Very HD shots of Go! Ooh GT is on it. Funky music. Not actual game play footage. Clapping. October 1 2009. GT has helped define PS as a good consoles. Something about Metal Gear. Hidio Kojima comes on. He also has a translator. Snake is coming back on PSP Go! MGS Peace Walker. 10 years after MSG 3, 1970s. True sequel of MS franchise. He’ll help write the script and produce it, he’ll be very involved. It’s not a side story. He will make it good for the PSP. He’s got a trailer. Aw he said in English, please enjoy the trailer. Rough voice. Ok graphics. Costa Rica has no army. Snake is there, doing sneaky stuff, like crouching! Apparently it’s the missing link in the saga. “They believed they were creating a paradise.” Ends with snake becoming a box. Out in 2010. Clapping. Resident Evil on PSP next year. LittleBigPlanet, Motor Storm, Hannah Montana and Harry Potter all on PSP this summer. In 2009 these games will be on PSP: Jack and Daxter, Star Wars, Pet Games, and loads more, too many for me to work out! PSN has 24 million users in 55 countries. More than 475 million pieces of content downloaded. More than 90 exclusive titles. Free wi-fi and PSN, ok we get the fact that you have to pay for Xbox live. They’ll be adding a lot of PS1 titles. Home has 6 million users worldwide, 85% use it more than once. 100 virtual items a month. Video of Home. Makes it look awesome. Another video on what’s coming for PS3: inFAMOUS, Uncharted 2, Batman, GhostBusters, Buzz, Ice Age? Golf, American football, now PSN stuff: lots of vibrant games, a monkey. PS3: Ninja LBPlanet guy, Rachet and Clank. End of video. Clapping. Rockstar has Agent, exclusive to Play Station. Rockstar recognises PS as a great place for games. Assassins Creed 2, giving players more choices in each aspect of the game. Starts as AC 1 ended. DaVinci will help main character with gadgets, like flying machine, Glider. It’s set it Italy, start of the modern world. So they don’t expect a flying man. The game looks very good! He just face palmed two guys and killed them. 30 different weapons. He is now surrounded after killing the main guy. He smoke bombs everyone a jumps into the nearest bit of sea. He says it will be on the shelf this holiday along with Assassins Creed: Bloodlines for the PSP. Video for Final Fantasy 13, a lot of action. Final Fantasy 14 is exclusive to PS3 when it launches in 2010. The video, has dragons, and ships. Everyone has been catered for according to Jack Tretton. There is talk about the motion control. Oh dear. It looks like a WiiMote, but it’s just a prototype. It’s like a Glowstick. Now a live demo of it in action, it has a glowing blue orb on the top of it. They put the camera on, them it made it look like he’s holding a tennis racket a sword, STOP sign, Fans, etc. It looks amazing. It’s not fully worked out yet, but it looks awesome! You can use 2 at a time. There is a building thing, a drawing and painting modes. Domino mode! Aw yeah! RTS mode as well! There is so much to do with this! You can use a shield and sword, to knock around a dummy. Also you can use Ninja stars. Bow and arrows too! The crowd is clapping at everything now! The dummies flip over if you get them in the head. The precision is amazing. It will be out in Spring 2010. More in store for LittleBigPlanet, more licensed content for it too, from Disney in Fall. A new game like LBPlanet called ModNation Racers. Only possible on PS3. You can make your own characters to use, you can share them and people can rate them. You can make your own car too! Surface changes work great when driving. In game you can use weapons, like in Mario Kart. No way! You can make tracks too! Within 1 minute you can make a figure of 8 circuit and race with AI straight away. There is a landscape editor as well, the track will go up if you make a hill there. You can add trees, houses, weapons, safety cones and most of all sheep! Like on Far Cry you can change water height, also you can change where the sun is! All of this within 5 minutes. It looks like it will sell a lot! There will be more features soon. The Last Guardian, a game for the PS3. It has good graphics at a giant dog/chicken that kills, but is kind to a little child. It’s the third in a series, but I didn’t catch the name. Now a video for Grand Turismo 5, once more the graphics are great. It has NASCAR racing, Rallying, your average racing and more. The people that made God of War 3 are on stage now, this is the final game I believe. They have a demo. Flimsy grunts flying everywhere as a muscular guy, you, is attacking them. Now harder enemies which are big bird things. A big creature is approaching and the ground shakes. This guy you play as has wings as well. I am not going to commentate all of it. Awesome, he has a force push like move also. It looks to be a good game. It is out March 2010. I believe Sony may have the edge over Microsoft. That’s my opinion though. Natal vs Sony Glowstick, I think Glowstick may be better. “We are extremely proud of the line up on our system this year.”

Now it has ended.That felt like forever, but it was great!