E3 2021 Future Games Show recap: Jurassic World Evolution 2, Sonic Colors Ultimate, Immortality and more
The Future Games Show is a relatively new addition to the E3 roster, debuting last year to fill a gap left by the canceled E3 2020. At E3 2021, the Future Games Show, from our sister site GamesRadar, returned under much more auspicious circumstances, showcasing a variety of mid-budget and indie titles across the PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.
Like last year, the Future Games Show didn’t have any blockbuster announcements or industry-shaking revelations. What it did have, however, were more than 40 games, ranging from a boxing game that lets you pit the greatest fighters of yesteryears against today’s rising stars, to a pixelated noir thriller where you play as a detective raccoon.
Describing each title from the Future Games Show in detail would take thousands and thousands of words, but here are a handful of games that stood out to the Tom’s Guide crew. If you want to see the rest, you can watch a recording of the Future Games Show on YouTube, or see one embedded below.
Jurassic World: Evolution 2
Jeff Goldblum himself narrated the cinematic trailer for Jurassic World: Evolution 2, which we also saw at the Summer Game Fest and the PC Gaming Show. However, at the Future Games Show, we got our first glimpse of in-game footage, thanks to a feature called the Species Field Guide. This introduces you to the various dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts in the game. (Jurassic World: Evolution 2 also lets you populate your park with flying and marine reptiles, which were not technically dinosaurs.) Seeing a triceratops in action was a welcome development, although we’d still like to see the creature in a clip with some real gameplay.
