E3 2009 – Joe’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Games

We talked about going to E3 here at the show with our partners at Blistered Thumbs, but decided against it. This Year.

We need to focus on launching the website design (Early to Mid June) and help with the launch of the Official Blistered Thumbs site – More on that later.

However that doesn’t mean were not friggin’ excited as hell about this years show. Despite there not being some mega-ton announcement (at least not one that Joe is aware of) there’s still plenty of games we’d like to see more of..

Here they are in order:


Joe’s Most Anticipated E3 Games List

1. Borderlands

An upcoming Mad Max Style shooter with RPG elements, Borderlands has all the ingredients to be awesome. Customizable Characters, 4 Player Cooperative mode, Vehicular Combat, Looting and Questing! Joe’s Kinda Game. Finally the game has a Procedural Generator system to give us at least 500,000 different item and armor variations! WHA?! Not only that but the system also can generate map sections in the open, placing bunkers, towers, caves, enemies, and exploding cacti. And All of this is done without a loading screen! YOU Tell me why this shouldn’t be first on the list!?!?!

2. Red Dead Redemption

I have the boxed collection of the superb spaghetti western series, The Man with No Name. Clint Eastwood at his best, the ultimate gunslinger. Westerns may not be the most popular genre (especially not in the world of video games) but there’s something about the wild west that just grabs at you. Holster a six shooter, saddle a good horse and make your own way. Will you side with the long arm of the law? Or will you gun down any man stupid enough to get in your way?


3. Modern Warfare 2

Modern Warfare. Enough said.


4. Mass Effect 2

I enjoyed the relatively short first Mass Effect but had two main gripes that I hope to see addressed in the sequel. There’s no variation in the items and weapons – they all pretty much looked the same to me. That and the planets you could travel to were all stupidly dull and boring to explore. If they address these two aspects, i’m ready to promote the shit outta this game!


5. Aliens Vs. Predator 3

So first they go and delay Aliens: Colonial Marines, then they put it on indefinitely hold. Sega Cancels the Aliens RPG, and refuses to release the finished Alien Marines Game for the DS. Its been a pretty rough year for Aliens fans like me. Luckily there seems to be one glimmer of hope ahead. AVP is returning! No not the shitty movies, the fucking awesome games! I hope there’s co-op!


Other games i’m looking forward to are Lost Planet 2 (4-player coop & customizable characters!), Batman: Arkham Asylum (BE the Batman!), and the recently announced Pirates of the Caribbean RPG: Armada of the Damned.