It will be held at the Hollywood Palladium and feature developer talks, gameplay reveals, and more, with livestreams for those who are not in attendance. This year it will be on Saturday, June 8 through Sunday, June 9. We're also expecting to hear more about FIFA 20, which was announced this week and received some details before EA Play got underway.Īs in the last few years, EA will eschew the E3 show itself and instead center its efforts on EA Play, a fan-centric event that takes place just before E3.
It will be home to a variety of news and trailers, but most notable will be the looks at Apex Legends Season 2 and the first gameplay reveal of Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order.
The highlight of this will be the EA Play livestream on June 8, which you can watch here on GameSpot. And though Pokémon Sword and Shield doesn’t exactly revolutionise Pokémon, we had a good time wandering its whimsical British-inspired world.E3 2019 gets underway today with the latest EA Play event from Electronic Arts. Skate Bird, a pun made playable, turns you into a skateboarding pigeon (or wren, or robin). Fall Guys looks like a madly fun multiplayer brawler, a la Gang Beasts. Telling Lies, from the creator of Her Story, has you digging through hours of NSA surveillance footage of four characters’ lives. Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Halo Infinite and a sequel to Zelda: Breath of the Wild all made huge splashes with trailers alone, as did Ghostwire: Tokyo and Deathloop. There were a lot of promising-looking games teased this year that weren’t actually playable, but which were nonetheless exciting. We were deeply weirded out by it, and haven’t quite been able to shake it from our minds. It’s vastly more intriguing than any other shooter at the show. You can fling things around with your mind, and sometimes you fall through the floor into a void of suspended abstract architecture. Characters sometimes make no sense when they talk. Impressive to watch and extremely difficult to explain, Control is a reality-bending action game in which nothing is as it seems. Watch Dogs’ recreation may understandably fudge the backstreets, but head to the landmarks and it’s the best video game version of the British capital we’ve ever seen. The one persistent character is the city of London itself. Pick the latter, and you get one last chance to win – but fail, and they’re dead for good. Pick the former, and the mission fails, but that character will be released from jail a few real-world hours later and you’ll be able to play as them again. Fall in combat, and you’re given an option: surrender, or carry on fighting. Recruiting disuillusioned Londoners to join the ranks of hacking collective DedSec forms the core of Watch Dogs Legion, a ferociously complex game set in a smartly realised, dystopian, post-Brexit future London in thrall to private military contractors. And yet Ubisoft looks to have pulled off the impossible. “Play as any character in the city” is the sort of claim that looks good on the back of a box, but falls apart when you actually try to implement it.