Konami Kicks Off With the E3 preshow!

Konami press event is in the bag and out of it we had got a few new nuggets of information. They started the with casual games. A facebook based social game based on baseball was shown. Followed by a slot machine and poker mobile games. None of these were particularly interesting, but social and mobile have been gaining market share in recent years, so it is understandable that this would be
addressed. Thankfully this was a brief and did not take up to much time.

The console games began with Pro Evolution Soccer 2014. I'm not much of a sports game fan aside from NHL. So I don't have a much of an opinion here. They demonstrated a new engine, but it didn't look like it was close to completion. As the character models were still looking incomplete. We'll see if this can steal any of FIFA's thunder this year.

Hideo Kojima and Kiefer Sutherland

Next we saw the game I was looking forward to most: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. There has been some controversy surrounding this game with the reveal that long time voice of Solid Snake / Big Boss, David Hayter would not be reprising his role. The new voice of Snake was revealed as Mr. Jack Bauer himself, Kiefer Sutherland. Mr Sutherland is a fine actor and I'm sure that he will have a fine performance, but I would be lying if I said I was not disappointed to see the David Hayter not be apart of the game. Is Hideo Kojima trying to pull a fast one on us like with Sons of Liberty? My gut says this is the genuine deal, but their are some conspiracy theories floating around out there.

Finally we were treated to the debut trailer for Castlevania: Lords of Shadows 2. We knew this game was in development so it was not much of a surprise, but the story is taking an interesting twist the battle for Dracula being taken in to the present day. An interesting idea and sure to be a fun game. The first Lords of Shadows was good, but not great. Hopefully the series continues to move forward, but I'll put my vote in for a challenging side-scroller in the style of the NES original.

Well that is the wrap up of Konami's event. I'll be doing these for the rest of the press events on Monday.