EA Will Combine Two Franchises To Battle Call Of Duty
Well, yeah, you're gonna need some help in this battle.
After saying the impending throwdown between Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 was a "heavyweight fight," EA Games president Frank Gibeau told The Guardian that his company is preparing a two-pronged approach to dealing with the Activision mega-blockbuster franchise. In order to "go after the shooter category," EA will alternate between two major franchises: Battlefield and the recently reestablished Medal of Honor. As it turns out, the teams responsible for both titles are actually working together "so they can share tools, technologies, innovations, without feeling like the same games." It isn't a bad idea; we applauded Danger Close for their last effort.
And with a little more help from DICE, you could have two franchises that - when put together - could grab a large chunk of the FPS market.
Tags: ea, battlefield, medal of honor, call of duty, cod
6/14/2011 9:47:41 AM Ben Dutka
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coverton341
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 11:20:09 AM
Excelsior1
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 10:13:43 AM
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i wish they would just shut up and concentrate on making the best game possible. ea is starting to sound like its employees in its forums. arrogant a-holes. also, if those stories are true about ea cutting content out of bf3 for preorder bonuses i won't even consider buying the game.
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Highlander
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 10:20:10 AM
79transam
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 10:29:18 AM
Excelsior1
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 10:37:07 AM
well, i've heard mw3 preorders are even higher than cod bo so there's no real evidence of cod fatigue. analysts have said they expect mw3 sales to be even higher than cod bo so it's going to take something spectacular from ea to even approach the level of success of the cod series.
i still think it will take activision making a really bad cod game to dislodge some of those fans. the sooner it happens the better. it's not healthy for the industry to have one game sucking up all those sales.
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Nas Is Like
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 10:42:44 AM
zabak74
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 10:47:52 AM
Highlander
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 11:02:14 AM
79transam
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 11:03:12 AM
LegendaryWolfeh
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 11:27:12 AM
Also I have to agree that I didn't like MOH, but I loved them on the PS2 so I can only hope the next one will be better. And still, it doesn't matter about sales when you're talking about the quality of a game (though obviously you'll wish the quality games get the sales, they don't always.)
Excelsior1
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 11:49:02 AM
ea can talk up their game. that's fine, and you're right that's a publishers job. ea spends so much time talking about cod though. it gets old and irriatating to here them go on and on about cod. ea talked a big game with nfs shift2, and look how that turned out.
you are also right about sales not representing quality. i have no idea why the cod series gets the obscene amount of sales it does. it's a decent run and gun shooter, but i see nothing in its quality that warrants those type of sales.
i also agree with some of highlander's sentiments about shooters. they are getting old, and they aren't my favorite type of game either.
to all the people rooting for cod to fail i say what's the big deal of cod is replaced by yet another military fps? nothing's really changed, and we still have a market oversaturated with fps.
Jawknee
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 11:50:02 AM
I have a new 55" Bravia and yes, I think it was an ugly looking game. It was just more Unreal, glitchy nastiness we have come to expect from that dated engine. The MP portion looked a bit better but that's only because it was using Frostbite.
If you think MOH was a pretty game, then you have very low standards.
mindmurderer69
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 10:58:05 PM
Kiryu
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 10:32:13 AM
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"I like everybody else have been wonderfully blown away by the tank scene in Battlefield 3 [shown off at EA's E3 conference]. But as I was sitting there - and please know that Battlefield is one of my favourite series, so I'm not knocking on it, I mean, I really love it - I realised that what most people are talking about is how amazing it looks, and that to me is potentially worrisome. It's not that I don't think DICE should get that kudos; they deserve it and their game looks beautiful.
I'm also not saying it's not going to be Game Of The Year, it might very well be. The artist and the programmers and everyone who scripted that sequence should be bought a round because it's great, great work.
But when you look to the press, you don't hear them saying: 'Yeah, but as great as this looks and let's write about that and be very positive about that, you're still kind of just sitting behind a turret and aiming and shooting - and we've been doing that since Battlezone.'
I'm honestly not trying to be like, 'we need to be totally pure and forget graphics,' but there is a balance to be struck. And when I hear people say that E3 looks conservative, to me, I don't think the journalists have done a good enough job holding our - as in developers' - feet to the fire."
Highlander
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 10:37:17 AM
Lawless SXE
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 1:24:51 PM
Highlander
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 1:33:18 PM
___________
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 8:33:02 AM
hes right journalists do focus FAR too much on graphics these days!
when it boils down to it how have shooters really evolved in the past few years?
better AI and more destructible environments, thats all i can think of.
come on, we can do SO much more then that!
Highlander
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 11:00:40 AM
I can't figure out *why* it has taken so long to get destructable environments, or better AI. Better AI is something I think everyone has wanted since just about day 1 with this kind of game. Good AI makes playing against the system challenging without being stupid because the AI resorts to cheating.
Destructable environments just seem like the natural way to go. inFamous 2 has pretty good destructable environments, it's kind of satisfying to watch a tree explode into a shower of leaf debris when you blast a car sitting next to it.
___________
Thursday, June 16, 2011 @ 10:01:14 AM
watched xplay today and they had a interview with david, he was asked is there one thing that worries you with the industry today?
he responded simply the budgets, he pointed out a example a dev he spoke to at the show was working on a game with a budget of 70M!
he said i wish developers would sacrifice 20% of the graphics to bring down the costs, and also to add more things gameplay wise.
allot of games these days dont do things gameplay wise simply because of graphical limitations.
either that or because so much time is spent on graphics theres by the time they get to the most important part of the game it gets the scraps.
hes right.
as ive said a million times give me a game with fantastic gameplay but crap graphics over a game with even mediocre gameplay but such good graphics it makes uncharted 3 look like the original crash bandicoot!
i like pretty graphics as much as the next guy, but as ive always said a boring game that looks good will always be a bad game.
a fun game that looks crap will always be a good game.
graphics are one of the LEAST important things with games, the sooner developers realize that the better.
little ot, but you seen the tech demo nvidia released awhile ago for ray tracing?
just saw it last night, cant remember what its called but its on there website.
you can download and run it and it lets you play around with cars, environments, lighting effects things like that.
gobsmacked how good it looks!
i mean the texture detail is not the best ive seen on a PC, but just the way light is reflected was truly amazing!
i had a bugatti on there, and looking at the chrome on the vents at the back of the car i could actually see a reflection of the building behind me.
never have i noticed lighting effects like that, my jaw just hit the ground!
im starting to change my tone on ray tracing now that ive seen how much it can improve things, i mean i swear to god the chrome vents looked freaking real!
and i thought GT5 looked good, this was just unreal!
jimmyhandsome
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 10:45:29 AM
79transam
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 10:48:59 AM
Lawless SXE
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 1:30:32 PM
Peace.
PorkChopGamer
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 11:32:07 AM
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Weaverpsu
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 11:32:16 AM
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I look at this like Rocky 3. EA is the hungry driven Mr. T and Activision is complacent Balboa. Watch the movie if you don't know what happened.
Excelsior1
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 12:03:38 PM
i was referring to sales. bf3 might turn out to be a better game but i don't think it will beat cod anytime soon in sales. ultimately, the market will decide who the winner is. anything is possible, though. things seem to go in trends. maybe cod days are numbered.
as for cutting content from the original game and using it as a preorder bonus that no doubt will be on psn as some overpriced dlc...well, i just hate stuff like that. ea's been one of the worse offenders out there regarding their handling of dlc, and overpricing it on psn.
Clamedeus
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 2:53:18 PM
Deathb4Dishonor
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 12:01:24 PM
JMO_INDY
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 12:15:56 PM
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Jawknee
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 3:39:05 PM
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 8:37:09 AM
christ!
zombies have helped CODs sales, but to say that till BF has zombies it will never beat COD is just ridiculous!
BF could have zombies and so much more and it still wont sell more then COD!
why?
because humans are like sheep, we have to be part of this me too crowd.
if you did a survey asking people why they bought COD i bet at least 87% would say because my friend does.
not because they like it, or it looks good, or it was cheap, or because they wanted to play it.
only purely because everyone else does!
DjEezzy
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 1:16:51 PM
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Lawless SXE
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 1:38:57 PM
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Honestly, I don't see the point of it. MoH and BF, IMO, are too similar to differentiate from a gameplay and thematic perspective. Don't get me wrong, the two will be seen to be different by the masses, which will allow EA to sell them without the same sort of backlash that CoD has attracted.
I'd like to say more, but I have an idea for elsewhere, and wouldn't want to spoil it.
Peace.
WorldEndsWithMe
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 1:39:45 PM
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StangMan80
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 2:14:38 PM
I wish we lived in a world where people would pay attention to quality and performance before they make a choice on which game to purchase.
StangMan80
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 8:30:40 PM
StangMan80
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 2:11:29 PM
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BF3 I know I am already getting. All of BF3's gameplay is looking amazing. and the bit I saw of MW3 didn't look so good and it wasn't even gameplay. that's a bad sign.
Godslim
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 2:57:12 PM
Douchebaguette
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 2:20:53 PM
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At least there will now be a split balance within the fps section; there may be a fanboy war like no other.
BikerSaint
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 7:28:21 PM
lulzsec wound up hitting 5 sites today, 4 of them actual games.....
LulzSec, the hacking group apparently motivated by nothing more than their desire to laugh at the mayhem they cause, has had a busy day in an event they called "Titanic Takeover Tuesday".
Taking a break from their dumps of user data and server break-ins, today saw the group perform a bunch of distributed denial of service attacks against a range of targets.
And they're even getting bold enough to ask on Twitter for people to pick new sites for them to hack for the lulz....
Anyway, here's the sites the scumbags hit today
1. The gaming magazine, "The Escapist"
2. Eve Online's log-in servers & website
3. IT security company named, Finfisher
4. Minecraft's log-in servers & website.
5. League of Legends game log-in server & website.
These criminal f*cktards are getting really pathetic now & need to be caught & jailed for a long time, like ASAP!!!!!
Clamedeus
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 9:04:27 PM
Geobaldi
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 10:48:52 PM
___________
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 8:40:06 AM
there doing this because they feel lawless, and to a extent there right.
look how long its taken for anonymous to start getting lapped up, i mean they attacked mastercard and heaps of other sites YEARS ago!
in other words got bigger fish to fry.
BikerSaint
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 7:29:13 PM
Jawknee
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 8:17:55 PM
Clamedeus
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 9:02:25 PM
Clamedeus
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 9:23:53 PM
DarthNemesis
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 6:26:42 PM
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Bloodysilence19
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 7:25:57 PM
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 7:48:04 PM
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sha4dowknight05
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 8:31:12 PM
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It's an awesome game!!!!
Sure it's over played, hyped, talked about, compared, hated, but that just means that game has generated a lot more attention then most other games.
Maybe some people here should at least finish the game's campaign at least before hating.
You might argue that "the game sucks too much to play the campaign!"
But you need to at least play that before hating, you would have more reasons to back up your points.
BTW Battlefield 3 looks awesome regardless of what people say!!!
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Pandacastro
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 1:27:02 AM
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 8:42:23 AM
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no seriously EA are paying more attention to COD then anyone else is!
this has gotta be the first game ive ever seen where everytime the publisher or developer mentions it they have to mention the competition.
i mean seriously are you THAT worried about it!?

Battlefield 3









Sanjuro
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 @ 10:13:06 AM
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