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BBC: Was the Exclusive PS3 Mystery Game Revealed At E3? Nope, And Its Not MAG

BBC Darren writes:

"A reader of the blog - Kyle Barrett - has emailed to ask if a mystery game I had teased people with a few months ago had finally been revealed at Sony's E3 press conference.

If the footage I was shown truly is "in game", as told to me by the Sony PR people, then we could be on the brink of a step change in what games consoles are capable of in terms of story-telling and immersion."
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Published: 527 days 10 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3
 
 

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sonarus - 527 days 10 hours ago
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Hmmmm... this is exciting:)

We can definitely rule out heavy rain now and with it surfer girls credibility.
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decapitator - 527 days 10 hours ago
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The "ACE" still lies in wait. Leipzig will be so fun as will TGS.
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Hagaf22 - 527 days 10 hours ago
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sounds like sony is really pumping it up for the tokyo game show.... what better place huh? use e3 to see what the competition has to offer then blow them away in tgs.... cant wait...
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harry190 - 527 days 10 hours ago
1.3 - This is not related,
but at Leipzig Sony will also reveal the new Singstar Next Gen.

http://www.n4g.com/events_e...
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Liquid Dust - 527 days 9 hours ago
1.4 - Sony's holding something close to the vest
Sony seems to have something they think is just incredibly important up their sleeve. But with this much secrecy it must truly be some sort of "ultimate" IP. Sony is holding back so much, they must be getting ready to just unload on the competition. Bring it
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Rob0g0rilla - 527 days 9 hours ago
1.5 - New SingStar next gen?
Lol, the new SingStar has it's own community and the ability to upload & share your own videos with other PS3 users with SingStar. It's amazing but it's crazy to see Sony will be raising the bar yet again with this new SingStar game. It'll be interesting to see what they have in store for us.
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omni_atlas - 527 days 7 hours ago
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The image used for this article is the one from the Heavy Rain poster.
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Panthers - 527 days 7 hours ago
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It could have been heavy rain. They didnt show that to the public.
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sunnygrg - 527 days 7 hours ago
1.8 - Stop being such a tease BBC guy..
Sony gamers will bless you if you leak it nao.
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Tomdc - 527 days 5 hours ago
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i e-mailed the blog askin em this and neva got a reply lol!

I doubted it was MAG because of the mention of story telling by bbc and I don't think MAG came across as a story kind of game.
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NO_PUDding - 527 days 2 hours ago
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HOLY HECK!!

I am Kyle Barrett!!

I sent that!

Awesome.
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mfwahwah - 526 days 22 hours ago
1.13 - @Panthers
Heavy Rain WAS shown to the public... back in '06. I'm really interested as to what this game is though...
1.14 Mystery_Person | 526 days 21 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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CrazedFiend - 526 days 16 hours ago
1.15 - I don't want to know what it is...yet.
I honestly would rather NOT be told until maybe half a year before the game's release.

I'm sick of this current game of waiting 2 or 3 years before a game comes out. Waiting through delay after delay because they really shouldn't bother revealing release dates in the first place.

This being made worse by waiting for games that eventually get canceled because the developers can't handle it or there's some sudden change in the company's strategy (Ahem...thanks for COMPLETELY SCRAPPING "Eight Days" and "The Getaway" SCEE! Changing your strategy shouldn't mean killing games already announced and in development. People are already waiting for those games).

I appreciate that something wicked this way comes. But I don't care to know what it is until the wait for said game is at a more reasonable length.

Good job. Take your secret to the grave if you have to BBC man!
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Steven Colbert - 526 days 12 hours ago
1.16 - I got it!
Halo 4.No wait.That is for the next xbox.My bad

Pong 2?

Genji 2?

Tetris HD?

Metal Gear Solid:VR Missions Remake?
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Xandet - 527 days 10 hours ago
2 - Awesome
I cant wait to see it..... whenever the hell that may be.
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decapitator - 527 days 10 hours ago
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We will see Heavy Rain at Leipzig next month so am thinking maybe TGS is where we will get to see whatever the hell the BBC dood means.
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AznSniper - 527 days 10 hours ago
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But the thing is, this guy visited the Sony studios in the UK so it's likely a game from one of those Sony studios there. I doubt that it's going to be at TGS where the reveal is because it's more likely to be at Leipzig.
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decapitator - 527 days 10 hours ago
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Yeah, I hope they reveal Both? games at E3. If not, they should at least show Heavy Rain.
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Xiphos - 527 days 10 hours ago
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Interesting. All eyes on Leipzig and TGS.
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vasilisk - 527 days 6 hours ago
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TGS for the SE announcement and Leipzig for this mystery game. It's developed in Europe so I'll doubt they're going to announce it in TGS
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Overr8ed - 527 days 10 hours ago
4 - F**k
i hate that Sony does this to us... let alone one person teasing us of this game.
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DrWan - 527 days 10 hours ago
5 - I think Sony is doing the right thing
I think Sony made the mistake of showing Home and LBP too early but back last year, Sony was really in bad shape so they were 'forced' to show things they weren't really close to release yet, so that angered some ppl. So this time, they are smart about it I think.
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thor - 527 days 8 hours ago
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You're right - but they've probably also shown GOW3 and MAG too soon, I mean, they're both not coming out until late 2009, right? If they'd announced them at E3 next year it would have had a bigger impact IMO but they needed something to counter the FFXIII announcement.
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The Wood - 527 days 6 hours ago
5.2 - thor
i think its a double edge. They showed teasers so that should indicate that its nowhere near ready but informing us of its existence at the same time. Had they not show anything to do with MAG now then MS, who may have a similar product in the works, may show their version of MAG first. Now we know its coming and what the targets are its safe to say that anything that gets announced hereafter by anybody else is just copying full stop.

by 'MS's version of MAG' I mean a similar type of game 200 plus players in realtime warfare. Another console industry 1st.
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Willio - 527 days 6 hours ago
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but isnt MAGS PS3 exclusive?
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DarkBlade - 527 days 10 hours ago
6 - Damn
Well thank god MAG wasn't it because to me it wasn't like "OMG". It was like "awesome". Anyone guess to what kind of genre you think the would be. Im thinking of a third person kinda game.
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kingOVsticks - 527 days 10 hours ago
6.1 - whatever it is
I hope its not a shooter,nothing against them just I want something refreshing like when you play any ico game or a really good jrpg something that kinder the spirit....
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bishop-br - 527 days 9 hours ago
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Third person is not a genre, it's just a perspective of the game... Really, saying it can be third person is like guessing that the sky will be blue today when it's 12am and you con't see a cloud.

Third person could be Ico, Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, Little Big Planet (but for oldschool gameplay platformers we use the world "sidescrollers") and what not...

Unfair guess man.

I would love it to be some adventure or some hack and slash action. But actually I'll be satisfied with Heavy Rain (if as good as Indigo Prophecy) and GoW3, so I really want to be surprised this time, specially with this kind of hype about a storytelling and immersion, I'll be not that much surprised if those guys come up with something we'll need a new genre to classify it.
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kingOVsticks - 527 days 10 hours ago
7 - IMO
sony should have reveled the mystery game at e3 and shocked the world but as we all know sony are the biggest c0ck teases of them all with their unbelievable looking GOW 3 footage and the brief MAG trailer :P
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decapitator - 527 days 10 hours ago
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IMO, I think Sony made an excellent decision to not show Heavy Rain and any other major project they have in development because, If you look at Microsoft, they didn't really announce any new game except FXIII coming to the Xbox 360. Sony had announced at least one game for PS3, 3 for PSP, and PS2 is still delivering.

If they had shown those games, it would have sent of the wrong message that, they did that in reply to the FXIII announcement which will mean, they were shook by it. One thing about business is to NEVER show your opponent that, he surprised you.
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Monty_The_Great - 527 days 10 hours ago
8 - I will be the first
to admit it, but SE is driven by only money. So don' be surprised when there big announcement is that FF7 is being remade, for both consoles
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harry190 - 527 days 10 hours ago
8.1 - How many times ......Repeat......
Publishing rights mate,publishing rights. It`s Sony`s call on this one mostly.
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kingOVsticks - 527 days 10 hours ago
8.2 - Thats a little naive don't ya think?
what big company isn't driven by money? Its not like SE was trying to stab sony in the back or just wanted the money,they kinda had to is they
want to see FF13 see the light of day.
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The Wood - 527 days 6 hours ago
8.3 - yeah
think Wipeout mixed with Days of Thunder in terms of story;)
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beast - 527 days 10 hours ago
9 - Its obvious
Heavy Rain
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Steven Colbert - 527 days 10 hours ago
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Heavy Rain has already been shown to the public back in 2006
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kingOVsticks - 527 days 10 hours ago
9.2 - I don't think it is
The game the bbc reporters saw was supposedly never announced but heavy rain does fit the description of "story-telling and immersion."
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kydrice - 527 days 9 hours ago
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Heavy Rain has NOT been shown ever. The video of the actress going psycho has NOTHING to do with the game NOTHING. It was just made to show off the graphical aspects or something but yea...NOTHING.
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Steven Colbert - 527 days 9 hours ago
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The next team ICO game,perhaps?After all they have been quiet for years and it would not shock me.But then again,the presentation was in london soooo...wipeout?
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Panipal2005 - 527 days 9 hours ago
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Wipeout? Are you serious? Darren made a big deal about what the game was going to do in terms of story telling. Racing games do not tell stories.
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Steven Colbert - 527 days 9 hours ago
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Wipeout...with a good story?Maybe?
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Panipal2005 - 527 days 7 hours ago
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D'OH! NO!
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JoelR - 527 days ago
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It's obviously not Heavy Rain
1) it's the wrong studio
2) Heavy Rain has been talked about and is known and the author states it is not a known IP
3)It was not discussed at E3 in any of the meetings and Heavy Rain was.
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bleachrulez - 527 days 10 hours ago
10 - dam it
then whats the secret game
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KobeT24 - 527 days 9 hours ago
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This is so exciting!

*claps hands*
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VMAN_01 - 527 days 9 hours ago
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OMG I WANT TO KNOW WHAT GAME THIS IS!!!
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