This year’s E3 was a lot like last year, which was a lot like last year, which was a lot like last year, and yeah, I guess the Dreamcast didn’t make a showing this year but that was about the only difference. Every game looked about the same really. They all offer guns and killing and a protagonist so handsome and cool, he should have his own line of clothing and cereal.

Sure, the PlayStation 3 was there! Sure the Wii made it (if you wanted to wait three hours) and while these sytems boasted the new direction in control with tilt sensory, they didn’t look any better than the Xbox 360 offerings. And if you ask me, you won’t see any differences in graphics for quite some time.

Yes I loved all of my precious DS games (hello, Pokémon and Harvest Moon) that’ll be out soon enough but I’m also thinking of PSP. I played a TGS demo for LocoRoco a while back and fell in love with it. Once the PSP has a redesign, I’ll probably buy both of them. Other than that, I guess I gushed a bit over Lost Planet from Capcom.

I’m sad to say but the SEGA booth really wasn’t impressive this year. Their biggest offering is the latest in Sonic the Hedgehogging visting the wonderful city of water, Soleanna, with, yet aother new character added to the roster, Desaturate the Hedgehog. I just don’t know about SEGA anymore. They just don’t try it seems. On the plus side, Atlus, NIS, Capcom, and Konami all looked strong. And, not to completely plug Eidos/SCi, but they did have some good looking games behind closed doors. Just Cause is one to look out for as well as IO’s Hitman: Blood Money showing some incredible handling for drawing large crowds onscreen.

Now, excuse me while I go preorder a PS3 and Wii.

Check out my photos from Electronic Entertainment Expo 2006!