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E3 Trifecta 5: Lego City Undercover, Resident Evil 6, New Super Mario Bros. 2



? Lego City Undercover is basically Grand Theft Auto, but you can also play the good guys and there’s platforming and everything is made of Legos. Thus, it is awesome. Did I mention that it’s for the WiiU, meaning that while I think Nintendo as a company is going in a direction I personally dislike, I don’t uniformly hate all their products? Just wanted to make that clear.

? Here’s some Resident Evil 6, where you’ll be playing Leon Kennedy, Chris Redfield and some dude named Jake Muller (the above vid is all Leon). It plays like REs 4 and 5, but at least there are some zombies this time. On the other hand, after Sleeping Dogs, Watch Dogs and Last of Us (…Dogs), Resident Evil is looking pretty enh.
? Many people have been talking about how fun the new New Super Mario Bros. 2 trailer looks, so… uh… here it is. Since about half the new shit Mario can do is about turning everything — blocks, enemies, empty air — into coins, I feel like it’s a little more capitalism-oriented than I’m comfortable with Mario being. Like, he’s either forgotten or doesn’t care that Koopa captured Peach, and now he’s looking at his Mushroom Kingdom murder-jaunts purely as a way to make cash. For shame, Mario, for shame.