E3:, MS announce motion controller Natal and Metal Gear

So the first day of E3 has been and gone, Microsoft won the day with lots of announcements.

The biggest centred around MS's new motion controller named Natal, apparently using full body motion capture, face recognition and voice control combined.

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Video Games | Project Natal | E3 09: Project Natal Intro

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

The video looks neat, but will it really work on such a hard core platform? This will depend on integrating the controller with real games, not just family-friendly casual efforts. The trailer does semm to point to 'proper games', but only time will tell if this is actually feasible.

Another big announcement was a new Metal Gear game on 360 called Rising featuring Raiden - not Snake. Still, MGS used to be a firm exclusive for Sony, so this is still quite big.

MS also trumpeted the fact that Facebook and Twitter will be integrated into the 360 dashboard. I'm not sure if I would use it, but it's there if you want it.

The expected games at E3 were there :

StarWars : Old Republic trailer:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09 ... playerfeat

Metal gear rising (not so expected):

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09 ... gear/50036

Assasins Creed 2

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09 ... playerfeat

Beatles : Rockband

http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/e3-the- ... st-trailer

Forza 3

http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/e3-forza-3-gameplay

Crackdown 2

http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/e3-crackdown-2-trailer

Another surprise was that Left4Dead 2 would be out as soon as the fall, 'exclusive' to 360 and PC. The second L4D will be a bigger game and have much more depth in terms of the co-op.