E3 2010: After all that 3D, it was 2D that stole the show
Side-scrolling awesomeness made us chee🐼r once more
Oh the irony. 3D was meant to be the big thing at this year's E3, whether on Nintendo's sublime 3DS or Sony's expensive PS3/TV/Glasses combo. But while we know this is the tech we're going to be dealing with for the next 🌜five or six years, right now it's the newly-announced games that we can see just around the corner that we're excited about. And꧙ you know what? A lot of them are 2D.
Sure, most take advantage of current-gen tech with '2.5D' gamepla꧟y, but the mechanics of some ten great new games are significantly biased towards sid𝔍e-scrolling territory.
I'd just like🙈 to point out somet꧙hing I wrote on Radarin April 2007:
And three years later, it has.Just 💯look at thi⛎s little lot:
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Justin was a GamesRadar staffer for 10 years but is now a freelancer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love♎ all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS int🐓o Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.