E3 2008 Sony Press Conference:What We Saw

Well,now E3 has come and gone.  All of my friends keep raving about some guy who’s so mad about not being famous that lightning shoots out of his hands.  But here’s what we saw at Sony’s Press Conference:

(with apologies for my poor animated-gif skills)

1. A Sackboy with big realistic buttons for eyes,and very well-animated blinking:

Adorable++.

2. A very short-lived (0.1 seconds?  Slowed down below.) loading screen when Sackboy selected his new shirt:

Why is this a good thing?  If the costumes are loaded when selected,that means that only the up-to-four active costumes are taking up memory during gameplay.  So the already-huge wardrobe can just get bigger and bigger.

3. Either a pressure-activated switch or a proximity sensor;but invisible:

I didn’t see any little microchips hanging around the bar graph.  As was later confirmed,the switches/sensors can be made invisible.

4. A bed of spikes:

5. A wavy glass material:

6. Electricity effect applied to a block behind a cutout to make an impact:

7. Generators of complex objects:

As you can see,there’s nothing to the left of where the trucks come out.  They must be being created inside the building.  The African and Construction levels appear to have generators as well.

To the right of the truck area,we see to the background again.  So either something is consuming the trucks,or they have a timed lifespan and are disappearing somewhere hidden.

8. Dissolving blocks:

Press a switch,and the blocks fade away.

9. Stained glass:

The background is somewhat visible through the lighter portions of the game images.  Transparency-enabled stickers pasted on glass?

10.  Disappearing text:

Where’d the “$29.99″go?  Maybe my dreams of a quiz show level can be realized after all.

11. Release date confirmation:

Who needs Halloween candy?