The Top 5 Most Innovative Games of E3 2007

Bioshock, WiiFit, UT3 and more but whats the number one?

"With the barrage of games shown at E3 this year, it's sometimes hard to sift through the junk. Even more difficult is to tell the good games from the innovators. Sure, there are lots of great games being shown this week, but the real winners are the games that push things to the next level. "

[nextgengaming18]

I have no idea why.

[SWORDF1SH]

i was sure lbp was gonna be there. i dont even think wii fit is that innovative. its something you would expect from the wii

[TheMART-sucksdick]

should be there....?

[MK_Red]

Agreed, Little Big Planet should have been among top 3 (IMO number one). UT3 is really good but not neccessary among top 5 most innovative.
My list:
1.Little Big Planet
2.Bioshock
3.Assassin's Creed
4.Super Mario Galaxy
EDIT: 5.Haze (Thanks Siesser for mentioning Haze, I cant believe I forgot about it.)
6.Rock Band

[Siesser]

I agree with LBP needing to make the list. Have no idea why UT3's on there. Happy to see the nod to Echochrome too. The thing that I saw this year though, that had me staring in wonder and saying "I've never seen that before," came from Haze. I can not recall ANY game where you can play dead; especially not an FPS.

[Bloodmask]

Wii-fit. Is in all the awards. I have nothing against Wii-fit I am just tired of hearing about it.

[ALIEN]

How come Little Big Planet is not in there. It should be on #1 spot. I gree with ECHOCHROME coming up on #3 spot, that games is something that i call "something new". If there is a good thing about SONY is that they are creative, they always come up with something new. Im glad that SONY is working hard on PSN, i HOPE they keep bringing some good stuff to PSN.

[genix13]

but it's something that's really been nagging me. Does anyone know how many "add-ons" for the wii are there out so far.

[Lucky232]

LBP is easily the most innovative game by far. Don't know why UT3 or Rock Band are on any innovative list.

[Loudninja]

What has gaming coem to, LBP, Echocrome did not make the lsit, but that did?

[Siesser]

Echochrome DID make the list. Little Big Planet didn't though.

[Bebedora]

is rockband! My way or the highway

Btw,I love metal by death precision.

[harpua]

even if you hate LBP, the game and concept is extremely original.

[QuackPot]

When LBP hits the stores and the masses become Sackboy fanatics.

He's so damn cute.
F3ck! Did I say that? Quck, I need a beer and better go and play my manly FPS and kill, bash and destroy a few things.

[Rute]

Littlebigplanet seems to be fun, but I don't think the concept is that revolutionary. I remember a DOS game named Jetpack, where the environment manipulation was the key to success (enemies trapped inside re-emerging walls etc.). It also had a great level editor. There have also been countless games which have characters assisting each other to access areas, like Donkey Kong. The thing with Littlebigplanet is that it's an online multiplayer game. Potential hit because of that? Sure, but it's more of a successful collection of great ideas than a brand new fresh one.

As for Assassin's Creed, I don't think climbing walls is a fresh idea either. Even many 2D games have featured free climbing.

Echochrome reminds me of an invention-based Windows 3.1 game, but I can't remember it's name.

It's a bit hard to judge games by their E3 appearance, because I know many games didn't feature their best innovations. For example, Wii Fit has a feature that connects the data gathered from the player and play sessions to doctors via Wiiconnect 24, who can then give additional information based on the patients history (at least in Japan).

Super Mario galaxy seemed very bland in the new gameplay videos, but according to sources like IGN, there's lots of neat tricks having to do with gravity and it's emergent derivatives, as well as other cosmic stuff. From what I've seen so far, Miymoto's level design hasn't been as clever as I had hoped for though.

Resident Evil 5 was a huge disappointment as I was really hoping to see some gameplay stuff. However, I still think this game along with GTA IV will be superb in quality of new content, because I know how talented the dev teams are.

Metroid Prime corruption was a serious letdown, although it had gameplay videos. The enemies were unimaginative humanlike robots, which I have seen enough in other scifi games. The hypermode seems to be cool, but I don't think it will be as huge as the devs are leading people to believe with their hype. Too bad Miyamoto didn't have time to get into that project.

My top 5:

1. Wii Fit
2. Bioshock
3. Super Mario Galaxy
4. Assassin's Creed
5. Littlebigplanet

[ChickeyCantor]

JETPACK
http://www.dosgamesonline.c...

" Too bad Miyamoto didn't have time to get into that project."
Its not his design,
Gunpei Yokoi (producer)
Yoshio Sakamoto (director)

are the ones who did it.
So it wasnt shigis play ground any way :P

[AllroundGamer]

sorry but Bioshock and UT should not be there on the list, just nothing innovative... they should replace them with LittleBigPlanet and Eye of the Judgemenet, that are some really new and creative ideas.

[Scions Wrath]

1. Killzone 2 - First Person Cover amazed me, and physics when someone got shot was unlike anything i have ever seen in an FPS. Animation is unrivalled. Graphics unbelievable.

2. Little Big Planet
3. Bioshock
4. Eye of Judgement
5. Haze

[texism]

Do these people even understand what INNOVATION means?

Bioshock innovates. Little Planet innovates . Unreal Tournament 3 does NOT innovate.Yes, it improves on things, but it shouldn't even be on that list.