For me if this state of play's highlight is Wolverine, gaming is over.
You've seen the trailer, right? The longer more recent one? This is to x-men, specifically wolverine, as the insomniac spider man game was to spider man fans. It's also an unprecedented, unapologetically M rated wolverine game from the x men universe from the perspective of Logan. He is the most popular X man and it would be a no brainer to have him be the main character of this first of big flagship x men games. Insomniacs spider man is considered on par with Batman: Arkham City in terms of applying the character to the medium of video games. The second game sucks, we all know this but insomniac was apparently punished for that by Sony, based on rumours.
It's Sony's big exclusive for the year, and it's out in September, so this will be the focus of the state of play in June, there's always a main focus on whatever is next in a state of play, and often it is the only game in that state of play, but this time it is directly stated that wolverine is a focus and not the focus, there's likely going to be other announcements. There's also Tokon, but sony know this will do well, but very slowly as fighting game fans tend to be very picky and that's a slow burner, whereas wolverine should clean house so long as it's not full of spider-man 2isms to murder its sales potential with word of mouth.
I, for one, am extremely hyped for wolverine as it will be the first polished game about comic book wolverine since x men legends 2. I know everyone loves wolverine origins on the ps3/xbox 360 but like deadpool, it's a fun, but very shallow game with combat that feels very flimsy and doesn't hold up once the novelty of the character has worn off.
Also I'm pretty sure there's going to be announcements of some kind as the June state of play is a stand it for what would have been the E3 slate of game announcements.
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