Checkpoint - Microsoft E3 Conference 2018

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Checkpoint is all about covering the long E3 conferences and boiling them down to the key features and comments about their upcoming products. All other conferences will be linked below
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EA, Bethesda

Halo Infinite

• Powered by Slipspace engine
• Master Chief(?) returns
• No further information given

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

• No information given
• Side scroller like the original

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

• Japanese themed combat - linear world - platformer
• Giant monsters and boss battles
• 2019 release

Fallout 76

• Prequel - 4x size of Fallout 4
• West Virginia
• Protagonist is first to emerge into the wasteland
• Just as colourful as Fallout 4
• New mutants - flying enemies too

Captain Spirit

• In the Life is Strange universe
• Chris - protagonist - young boy
• Showing off the strength of a child's imagination - fighting their monsters, flying spaceships etc
• June 26th 

Crackdown 3

• Mr Crews shown off straight away
• Destructive capabilities return on explosives
• Cars and weapons can transforms to what you need
• Feb 2019 release date

Metro Exodus

• Multiple new areas to explore - ocean, inland
• Artyom confirmed, Anna your partner
• New weapons
• Gasmasks still a necessity
• MUTANT HUMANS
• Different forms of Nosalises
• Main antagonists - A Cult
• Feb 22nd 2019

Kingdom Hearts

• All major princesses from the last few years
• Jan 29th 2019 release date

Battlefield V

• Same story aspects from EA shown

Forza Horizon 4

• Multiple weather aspects - appears cleaner on cars - "Seasons change everything"
• Off road to standard to sports racing stylised cars - bikes also
• Set in Britain - all in a contained world
• 60FPS-Mode
• QuickChat on D-Pad - interact with people in the world
• "Great to play with others - seamlessly play in co-op"
• "Entire community will experience (the seasons) together"
• Winter allows new areas to be explored
• Blimps show off new World Events
• "New gameplay, new events" when seasons change
• Xbox One Windows 10 release: October 2nd, Xbox GamePass same day

We Happy Few

• Deeper adult content - appears to be a larger game
• August 10th 2018

Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition

• New characters
• "Brought to the West for the first time"

The Division 2

• "How do you save a nation when the enemies come from within?"
• Summer has arrived: Humidity instead of snow
• Wildlife appears - world appears more wild than NY
• Control Points appear in world to control
• UI seamless, menu options much faster
• Fast acting foam stops players
• "Hive" mine - finds enemies with explosives
• March 15th, 2019

Shadow of the Tomb Raider

• Mayan temples -"The Cleansings" major threat
• Lara unleashes a plague
• Puzzles and exploring mechanic makes a comeback
• Jonah also returns
• "He wants to alter the course of humanity"
• "Become the Tomb Raider" Sep 14th

Session

• New skate game - no release date mentioned

Black Desert

• Mediveal game - magic and mythical creatures
• "Reveal the hidden secrets - once and for all"
• Beta in the Fall

Devil May Cry 5

• Dark tentacle creatures destroying humanity - Demons now transformed
• New mechanical arm - time stopping abilities
• Giant Demon boss battles return
• Upgrade and change your mechanical arm 
• Dante has lost is original demon arm
• "Render them as realistically as possible"
• "We made it for you"
• Spring 2019

Cuphead:The Delicious Last Course

• New character: Ms. Chalise
• 2019

Tunic

• Fox - protagonist
• 3D mutliple platform explorder - chibi-eske
• Combat fighter
• Boss fights

Jump Force

• "The impossible is a reality" in separate worlds
• NARUTO?! LUFFY?! GOKU?!?!?
• Fighter
• 2019

Dying Light 2

• Open world combat and parkour
• Your Choice, your world
• "The Modern Dark Ages"
• "Your choices has concequence" everything you do changes your world
• Rope swinging
• "Peacekeepers" Faction(s) in the city 
• "One out of hundreds you have to make - carve out your own world"
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Battletoads

• Comic book stylised
• 3 player couch co-op
• 2019 release

Just Cause 4

• "The rules have changed, the enemy has changed"
• Black Hand - antagonist
• "This isn't a war, its survival"
• December 4th 2018

Gears Gears Tactic

• Mobile game
• Turn base genre

Gears 5

• Kait - protagonist
• War for humanity escalates
• All the original team members return
• Visit the original sites of the start of the Locust war
• New Hive antagonists - almost look like zombies
• 2019 release date

CyberPunk 2077

• "A city of dreams, and I'm a big dreamer"
• Living city, showing both the good and bad of it all
• Male protagonist - no name given
• No release date

Small announcements

• Fallout 4 on Gamepass today
• Nier Automata coming to Xbox 26th of June
• Sea of Thieves DLC, Cursed Sails and Forsaken Shores - July and September release
• New Microsoft Studio - The Initiative, Undead Labs, Playground Games, Ninja Theory, Compulsion Games
• PlayerUnknown: Battlegrounds - War Mode - new weather system - Winter 2018
• Xbox Gamepass Fast Start - June Update for select titles - Fast Start for many game releases
  Dision, Elder Scrolls online, Fallout 4, ready today
• New Games: Outerworld, After Party, The Gold Club 2019, Fringe Wars, Below, Conqueror's Blade, Waking, Raji An Ancient Epic, Super Meat Boy Forever, Planet Alpha, Islands of Nyne Battle Royal, Sable, Harold Horbut, Bomber Crew, Children of Morta, The Wind Road, Wargroove, Generation Zero, Dead Cells, Ashen
• Gears Pop -2019
• Steaming network - Console-quality on any device
• New console hinted