If you've been on the internet at all this past week — and if you're reading this sentence, we're guessing you have been — chances are you've seen at least _some_ talk about E3. The Electronic Entertainment Expo is a huge annual gaming event where tons of upcoming games are shown off for the first time, and social networks have been buzzing with reactions to all of the announcements at this year's show. Social media analytics firm Brandwatch compiled some seriously impressive data about which games from E3 people are talking about the most. Check it out. 1. "THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD" YouTube/Nintendo To the surprise of absolutely no one, the new "Zelda" game stole the show at E3 2016. Set in an astronomically huge open world, players are free to go wherever they wish and do whatever they want for the first time since the original "The Legend of Zelda" in 1986. Expect to hunt wild animals, cook tasty meals for Link to eat, climb massive mountains, sneak around enemy camps and try to figure out what is afflicting this enormous world when this beautiful entry in the "Zelda" series comes out in March 2017. PLATFORMS: WII U, NX (NINTENDO'S YET-TO-BE-ANNOUNCED NEXT-GENERATION CONSOLE) 2. "BATTLEFIELD 1" DICE The "Battlefield" series, which is famous for huge multiplayer battles featuring dozens of players in one match, is taking players to World War I in its latest installment. The same scale and spectacle is back, with skirmishes between ground infantry, tank battles, aerial dogfights and zeppelin crashes all happening in the same multiplayer match. PLATFORMS: PS4, XBOX ONE, PC 3. "GOD OF WAR" Sony The PlayStation-exclusive series of extraordinarily violent hack-and-slash action games is back, albeit with some major changes. Kratos, the face of the "God of War" series, has moved on from taking down Greek gods and is raising a son in what looks like the frigid Scandinavian wilderness. The story looks to be more emotional and personal than before, while still featuring some great-looking encounters with gross mythological creatures, this time of the Norse variety. PLATFORMS: PS4 SEE THE REST OF THE STORY AT BUSINESS INSIDER
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