Microsoft’s 2014 E3 press conference was heavy on games and software and devoid of nearly everything else. The company announced a series of deals that would bring content to the Xbox One before other consoles, which is par for the course when it comes to Microsoft and big events. This was a fairly by the numbers affair, although it’s worth pointing out a few of the most interesting things that took place during the event. The content shown for Sunset Overdrive was incredibly self aware, to the point where the game made fun of a colorless soldier huddled behind a crate during a “realistic” firefight. The game then exploded with color, and showed a game that looks like a combination of Tony Hawk and Dead Rising, which is a sentence I didn’t think I would ever write.
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