E3 2016: 8 things we’ve learned about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

By Hugh Langley

Zelda

The new Zelda may be Nintendo’s only playable game at E3 2016, but damn, it’s being generous with its portions.

We’ve been treated to hours of gameplay footage, while attendees have been getting stuck into a demo on the show floor and exploring just a large, yet relatively fractional, section from the start of the game.

We have to wait until next year to get our hands on it, but until then, here’s what we’ve just learned about the new Zelda.

It has a name!

Until now we’ve been referring to the next Zelda entry as “The Legend of Zelda”, “Zelda for Wii U”, or just “That New Zelda Game That Was Meant To Be Out By Now. Seriously, Just Let Me Play It Already”.

We now have an official name to call it by – The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

It’s a title that fits nicely with the beautiful, vast world Nintendo has created here. The footage we saw at E3 was replete with mountains, trees, grass, wild horses, and lots of other lovely things – Breath of the Wild feels like a well-suited title.

It’s a beautiful, quiet open world

The map is 12 times bigger than Twilight Princess and all …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming