EA: Respawn's Title Let's Us Compete With Gears And Halo
See Full ImageAccording to EA, Respawn Entertainment's new shooter will be "sci-fi based" and in fact, might be a true-blue "Halo-killer."
Respawn didn't bring their new project to E3 this year but EA Games president Frank Gibeau spoke during a morning meeting, and confirmed that EA will release the new game when they see "an opportunistic window." He talked about following their strategy of giving studios a full two-year cycle to get the game built and "polished to maximum quality." Also, rather than being of the standard military type, Gibeau says Respawn's product stands in contrast to games like Medal of Honor and Battlfield.
"So it allows us to pick and choose the best of the sci-fi shooters. It allows us to compete with things like Gears and Halo and put them on places in our release calendar where they're not cannibalistic to the core business and that's the essential strategy going forward."
It's certainly true that sci-fi shooters aren't anywhere near as popular as military shooters these days, so it's nice to see Respawn going in a slightly different direction. As for the genre, well...it's West and Zampella and a lot of ex-Infinity Ward guys. Stick with what you know, right?
Tags: respawn, respawn game, ea, respawn entertainment
6/9/2011 10:36:00 AM Ben Dutka
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Comments (17 posts)
Temjin001
Thursday, June 09, 2011 @ 10:58:00 AM
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The only thing I'd like better would be to see them digging deep on PS3s architecture as I'm clearly noticing an appreciable difference in the volume of processing and effects between PS3's better exclusives compared to the multi-plats.
In the earlier days of PS3's exclusIves I felt I could chalk up some of the "better" looking games as a placebo effect, but no more. I'm seeing things that just can't be done on other current console hardware.
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Ignitus
Thursday, June 09, 2011 @ 11:27:50 AM
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Considering Bungie will no longer make Halo and Respawn's curriculum, this might turn out good.
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Highlander
Thursday, June 09, 2011 @ 11:29:55 AM
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maxpontiac
Thursday, June 09, 2011 @ 11:46:18 AM
:)
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Highlander
Thursday, June 09, 2011 @ 12:56:40 PM
Regarding sci-fi shooters. I know that a lot of gamers like the games to be gory, I just want the ability to optionally tone it down.
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maxpontiac
Thursday, June 09, 2011 @ 1:44:23 PM
I agree. Blood is one thing, but Saw level gore is completely unnecessary.
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Ludicrous_Liam
Thursday, June 09, 2011 @ 4:58:34 PM
I'll take the latter.
Dr. Bartholow? Never heard of him. :P
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sirbob6
Thursday, June 09, 2011 @ 1:24:07 PM
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Alienange
Thursday, June 09, 2011 @ 1:52:27 PM
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Shouldn't these guys be making a MW killer?
Holy snappin' crap... I'm really disappointed.
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Deathb4Dishonor
Thursday, June 09, 2011 @ 1:53:29 PM
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___________
Friday, June 10, 2011 @ 4:23:14 AM
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yes its a slightly different genre, but apples are still apples no matter what you put on them!
can we go back to the good old days where we pretty much had a balance of each genre?
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Beamboom
Friday, June 10, 2011 @ 6:06:51 AM
But did it really use to be like that? What I remember from the good old days is it was mostly scrolling space shooters, platformers or semi-3D car games?
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___________
Friday, June 10, 2011 @ 10:47:47 AM
there was everything, shooters, horror games, survival horror games, platformers, car games, hack and slashers, adventure games, RPGs, strategy games, stealth games.
allot of those genres today are a thing of the past.
especially survival horror and stealth games, oh how i miss my tenchu Z!
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BikerSaint
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Thursday, June 09, 2011 @ 10:50:37 AM