Game Title: Project Natal Systems: Microsoft XBOX 360 Game Description: Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun -- the only experience needed is life experience.
Game Title: Metroid: Other M Systems: Nintendo Wii Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Team Ninja Nintendo Game Description: Metroid: Other M marks an unprecedented collaboration with world-renowned developers Team Ninja, and provides fans with high-energy, action-packed game play as it delves deeper into the back story of famed deep-space bounty hunter Samus Aran. This game is scheduled for release in 2010.
Game Title: Metroid Prime: Trilogy Systems: Nintendo Wii Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Retro Studios Game Description: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption set a new standard for first-person motion controls in video games. Now it's bringing those controls to the rest of the celebrated series, allowing players to experience the entire Metroid Prime story arc with the peerless precision of the Wii Remote. Nintendo announces Metroid Prime Trilogy, a new premium three-game collection for the Wii console that bundles all three landmark Metroid Prime games onto one disc and revamps the first two installments with intuitive Wii Remote controls, wide-screen presentation and other enhancements. Metroid Prime Trilogy will be available exclusively for Wii on Aug. 24 at a suggested retail price of $49.99. Each game maintains its original storyline and settings, but now Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes let players use their Wii Remote to aim with precision as heroine Samus Aran. Based on the breakthrough control system that debuted in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, these new Wii controls bring an entirely new level of immersion and freedom to these milestone games.
Game Title: Pokémon HeartGold ( ポケットモンスター ハートゴールド) Pokémon SoulSilver (ポケットモンスター ソウルシルバー) Systems: Nintendo DS Publisher: Nintendo The Pokémon Company Developer: Game Freak Game Description: Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version return players to the scenic Johto region first introduced in the beloved original Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver games nearly a decade ago. The richly detailed adventure of Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver is now enhanced for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi systems with updated graphics and sound, as well as new touch-screen features and a host of surprises. Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version bring dozens of Pokémon characters back into the limelight for a new Pokémon generation - and longtime fans - to catch, train and battle.
Super Mario World's introduction, from the start menu. Copyright © Nintendo. Video taken with Wii version. Recorded at 1280x720 at 60fps.
Half-Life 2 cutscene, from the "Point Insertion" chapter. Copyright © Valve. Video taken with PC version. Recorded at 1280x720 at 27.976fps.