E3 2018: Every Conference Ranked Worst To Best

2. Sony

Sony's show was another weird one. The gameplay reveals of the core games were excellent - and it was certainly smart to announce their focus on just a few games ahead of time - but the wildly unnecessary "intermission" as the live crowd moved to a new location was an awful idea that should never be repeated.

The main disappointment here was the lack of high-profile games that had no-showed all the previous conferences up this point. Sony had to shoulder a lot of hope that they'd "save" E3, and they basically didn't, even if almost everything they showed off nevertheless looked pretty great (save for Remedy's middling, over-familiar sci-fi actioner Control).

In isolation, gameplay reveals for The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima and Death Stranding looked especially fantastic, while Resident Evil 2 Remake finally got its belated reveal, and Nioh 2's even on the way, so that's nice.

This wasn't a show to remember like Sony's stunning conferences from 2015 and 2016, though, and clearly a product of them preparing to wrap this generation up and not wanting to announce PS5 titles yet.

Rating: 6.5/10