It's a scorcher!

Well I don't know about the rest of the UK, but South Wales seems to be on the fun end of a heatwave - it's like a furnace! This is both sweet, and rubbish. Sweet because I get to go out and play with my friends, go cycling, have barbeques, and sort out the garden. Rubbish because it's destroying my front and back. This wouldn't be a problem if I was wearing clothes, but it's too hot for clothes! Don't get too excited, I wear three quarter lengths, but the rest of me is pretty much raw.
I also feel like prattling about yesterday's 360 E3-ness. For me, the highlight of the show was the Assassin's Creed 2 spot. I'm not sure there's much point in this becuase I don't actually have anything constructive to say about it, but it was incredible - I just hope the in-game graphics are up to the same standard! (on a sidenote, I immediately preordered my Black Edition of it xD)
The rest of the show blew me away too. Splinter Cell Conviction is shaping up for a September release, and looking rather beautiful aswell.
Modern Warfare 2 (which I fondly call cod 4 2) impressed everyone with it's gameplay footage. It opened up in a stunning moutain setting, with two operatives climbing an ice fall. This carried on for a while, but thankfully Infinity Ward skipped to the top, where the agents proceeded to look around a blizzard torn enemy base. This rapidly led to a fire right, and culminated in the agents steeling skiddoos and throttling off down the mountain. It was hot.
Bungie also made an appearance and showed some gameplay of ODST, which makes use of th unreal engine this time round. It still managed to hold onto it's Halo esque style though, and even reintroduced the Halo 1 pistol, which many of us hardcores missed in both 2 and 3!
Wait for it though, they also revealed a secret project.
Suspense building....
Halo: Reach!
Hell Yeeeeeah! A game covering the fall of Reach! Expect multi-spartan combat! I personally can't wait, but it's set for a 2010 release.
Woooah I'll be 20...I feel so old.
Anyways, the latter part of the broadcast was given over to NATAL, some sort of motion sensory, recognisey, camera software. It's hard to tell where they are at with the developement though, as the main example by Peter Molyneux, was prerecorded and not live. This obviously opens it up to claims that it was all staged and scripted. If it's real though, it's going to be awesome.
Also promised for xbox live before the year is out is Facebook, Twitter and "free" Sky, although for the latter I expect you will need prepaid cards or something. Apparently it doesn't require any additional hardware though.
Right, I'm done geeking, gonna go play some GoW2 or something.