Final Fantasy XIII, Gears of War 2, Motorstorm 2, Alan Wake at GDC 2008?

by Patrick Steen on February 3, 2008 at 9:33 am

What games will be at GDC 2008? The infamous Surfer Girl says three of the above titles will be there, along with four more “definites”. We can confirm six others.

In a response to a poster who asks what games will be at GDC this year, Surfer Girl says “YES” to seven games. These games are MotorStorm 2, Alan Wake, Too Human, InFamous, LittleBigPlanet, Killzone 2 and Gears of War 2.

There are three other games that might possibly make it to the event: SOCOM PS3, Metal Gear Solid 4, and WipEout HD.

Unlike last year, Sony and Nintendo won’t be having keynote presentations, so it might be wishful thinking to expect anything on the scale of Sony’s reveal of Home and LittleBigPlanet.

On the other hand, there is a Microsoft day booked for Tuesday, along with an hour long Microsoft keynote. Big things could be coming from the Xbox camp.

What games can we confirm for GDC? Mercenaries 2, Far Cry 2, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and Battlefield: Bad Company.

In addition to these, Square Enix will be presenting their Final Fantasy XIII engine, and three big Fable 2 secrets will be revealed. You heard it here first.

Make sure to come to Ripten for all of your GDC coverage.

*Update* - Surfer Girl has since retracted her predictions, blaming sleep deprivation for her original outburst. Please read about this here, along with further titbits on what will be at GDC’08.

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Discombobulator
on February 3, 2008 11:27 am

So Mercs 2 gets an official delay annoucement and then gets touted at GDC? Pandemic is a tease.
Patrick Steen
on February 3, 2008 12:17 pm

Touted not so much, but they will be exploring their engine in a tutorial, which will mainly look at the game’s destructive environment.
kyle
on February 3, 2008 12:31 pm

so when is GDC anyway?
Patrick Steen
on February 3, 2008 12:43 pm

Kyle: Look to the left of the title. ;)
Malik C.
on February 3, 2008 12:45 pm

I’m not surprised that Sony won’t have a keynote speech because at most of the events last year they were showing games that would be coming out in 08. Microsoft NEEDS to have a keynote as no one has any idea what is going to be on the system this year. I’m interested just by the fact that they basically have no first party, hell their only franchise left that hasn’t put out a game is Fable.
Discombobulator
on February 3, 2008 1:32 pm

A more in depth look at the engine would be nice. That was a major attraction for me the first time round.
Patrick Steen
on February 3, 2008 3:42 pm

Whether the public will be able to see the presentation is another matter…We’ll hopefully let you know.
Joshua
on February 3, 2008 8:11 pm

As a ps3 owner (not fanboy) I expect to receive updates on Metal Gear Solid 4, and Home. Also an in game XMB which is needed badly.
santos
on February 3, 2008 11:45 pm

xbox has nothing to show this year they ran out of everything.Everything went to 2007 from Xbox and ps3 is gonna come big because microsoft cant compete this year in less gears of war 2 comes out this year or halo wars is good. Other then ps3 has lots coming
Sady
on February 4, 2008 10:49 am

mmmm…Santos, let’s look at what 360 games are coming out this year:

Confirmed:
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
Battlefield Bad Company
Frontlines: Fuel of War (Exclusive)
Mercenaries 2: WiF
Dark Sector
Devil May Cry 4
Splinter Cell Conviction (Exclusive)
Grand Theft Auto 4 (with exclusive DLC)
Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Fallout 3
Prototype
Boderlands
Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Dark Athena
Dead Space
Saints Row 2
Army of Two
Resident Evil 5
Tom Clancy’s EndWar

Posibilities:
Gears of War 2: Exclusive
Alan Wake: Exclusive
Fable 2: Exclusive

Now let’s look at PS3:
Killzone 2-Exclusive
Resistance 2-Exclusive
Haze-Exclusive
Grand Theft Auto 4 (No mission DLC)
Resident Evil 5
Metal Gear Solid 4: GotP-(Exclusive?)
(And the games listed above that do not have ‘exclusive’ to the side’. However you need to keep in mind that usually on multi-platform games the 360 version always gets higher reviews.

Alright now say it’s gonna be a bad year for 360….
chris
on February 8, 2008 2:08 am

mmm…sady how about we look at those ps3 exclusives again

ps3:
SOCOM: Confrontation
Tekken 6
Motorstorm 2
The Getaway 3
Infamous
Wardevil
Haze
Gran Turismo 5:Prologue
Killzone 2
Little Big Planet
Resistence 2
Metal Gear Solid 4(its exclusive)
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII versus
The Agency
2 days 2 vegas
LA Noire
Star Ocean 4
White Knight Story
Home
MLB 08 The Show
Eight Days
Hot Shots Golf 5
Heavy Rain

Now i think its safe to say its gonna be a bad year for 360…
Lucas
on February 14, 2008 5:23 pm

I really hope they can give us more updates on Final Fantasy XIII. I do anything to get my hands on a possible demo.
Patrick Steen
on March 10, 2008 7:06 am

Well she was wrong about MotorStorm 2, Alan Wake, InFamous and Killzone 2. 3/7 makes it look like guess work to me.
LC
on March 10, 2008 8:30 am

guessing is an art that i guess you just don’t understand or appreciate.
sean har
on April 2, 2008 1:04 pm

blue ray rules coz 20X more disc space which means much more game memory and space which means longer games.
George
on May 3, 2008 5:26 pm

well i dont now what you are saying about blue ray doesnt matter to me as long as I xbox360 download blue ray I dont care 360 by far the easiest to program for soo oh well I made my choice and iam 360 gamer so what and pc of course and this is gonna be even bigger year for the 360 so you ps3 fan boys take a seat even the game magazine are sayin it.dont be upset ps3 has a boring library its a choice you picked movies over games

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