Sitting in the Midway E3 press conference, waiting for it to start, when a trailer for John Woo's Stranglehold kicks off. Some may think it looks too chrome-y, but I'm pretty impressed with its lighting, destructible environments and animation. Mike Bilder, Chicago Studio Head takes the stage to talk about the game.

He's extremely excited. It's according to him "the best action adventure game Midway has ever created." Better than Mortal Kombat Special Forces?! We'll just see about that.

A downloadable demo for Stranglehold is due next month for the Xbox 360 and PS3. The final game is scheduled to hit in August. He touts the game's destruction, which the team likes to call "Massive D." Giggle.

Tequila is really shooting the SHIT out of everything. He's also drenched in blood. Drenched! We're treated to a John Woo staple, with Chow Yun Fat's character shooting, arms splayed, dodging bullets and pulling off head shots in, well, bullet time.

People are cheering!

We move on to The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. They're rather proud of it.

Then immediatly to Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Zombie Ninja Pro-Am. They're working hard to bring the tone of the TV show to the video game. Epic action adventure combat golf racing game kitchen sink.

TNA Wrestling is coming to the Xbox 360, PLAYSTATION 3, Wii and PlayStation 2. They don't show any screens today, nor any shots of actual T and A. Biggest let down of the show so far. Rumble Roses USA this is not.

Midway shows artwork of The Wheelman, co-developed with Vin Diesel's personal development studio but little else. The artwork, however, does feature a Vin lookalike popping a wheelie while firing a machine gun. It's hard to complain about a situation like that.

After recapping some pre-E3 announcements, involving a number of DS and Wii games—Ultimate Mortal Kombat, The Bee Game, —the focus switches to Blacksite: Area 51. It's a first person shooter, in case you'd missed that. Actually, the enemy design looks fairly interesting. It hits in September.

Blacksite looks very pretty. Nice character models, textures and effects, but it's going to suffer from its generic design choices. We've got the token black guy. The tattooed badass. The semi-butch, semi-attractive female counterpart. There's an interesting moral system and squad tactics relationship. I'm worried these guys and gals worked really hard on a game that's going to get lost in the FPS shuffle.

Mark Rein from Epic Games takes the stage, clarifying that Unreal Tournament III is coming to both the PC and PS3. He talks up the game's ability to run mods on the PLAYSTATION 3 then kicks off another video of the competitive shooter. Gorgeous and constantly blazing at high velocity. Its the same (or largely the same) trailer shown during Sony's E3 keynote.

Even more applause. I'm starting to think this place has a few Midway plants.

And out of nowhere, the lights go up. It's over. It's over?