Finally, the long awaited EA Sports game is here: EA Arena Football.
Are you kidding me?
What’s next? EA CFL ‘06: Race for the Grey Cup? Challenge the top teams in the Canadian Football League in a grueling 23 week season. Includes legends team featuring Warren Moon and…er…
I guess that’s all there would be. Warren Moon playing all 11 positions, offense and defense.
How about EA CBA ‘06 — complete with all eight teams of the Continental Basketball Association, including the Rockford Lightning, Yakima Sun Kings, and CBA Champion Sioux Falls Skyforce. Real arenas will be rendered — everything will be perfect, from watching Quick Change at halftime to seeing the stadium filled to 25% occupancy with a record 1,300 attending.
Not to be outdone, 989 could feature NBDL Basketball 2006, with cover star Will Bynum (current PPG leader and Roanoke Dazzle guard) making hundreds of appearances around the nation, mostly to stores where, unrecognized as he is, he’ll be asked numerous times for soda refills.
I think my favorite, though, would be Midway reliving thier basketball heyday with NCAA “Divizzon III Hoopz”. What better way to spend your time than by creating hardcore, rim rattling, arcade style battles between top-25 teams like Worcester Polytech and Carnegie Mellon.
We can always dream.
February 8th, 2006 at 1:32 am
Corey, I’m not sure how in or out of the loop you are videogame-wise, but EA is the absolute scourge of the industry. Granted, the games they publish rather than develop are usually nice and original (a.k.a. fun.. Like the Battlefield series).
Seriously, if there’s anyone that tries to polish more turds nowadays it’s EA. I wonder how many employees slaved 20 hour days for this. Oh wait, they probably fired them after the game was completed.
Aaaaanyways, I can’t speak for the rest of the companies you mentioned, but everyone can agree to hate EA.
I enjoy reading this even more after your article: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=40067
February 8th, 2006 at 7:59 am
aww man, have you guys ever watched arena football? don’t get me wrong i would rather watch arizona play houston (even pre reggie bush) than watch any arena game, but it’s still pretty sweet. sure there are no stars, but there are some different rules that make it pretty fun. first, all but two players play offense and defense. the field is shorter and the out of bounds line is the stands, which means that players end up in the seats a lot, probably even more than pro basketball. also recievers are allowed to move forward before the snap, which means that you can run for about ten yards before the play starts and get going pretty fast. also, there is a net behind the end zone and if you throw a forward pass and it bounces off the net, the ball is catchable, which is pretty sweet. now, don’t get me wrong, i couldn’t name one player or even the name of one team and i don’t watch every week or anything, but i do watch sometimes and while i’m not in any hurry to play this game it does sound pretty fun to tackle someone by throwing them into the stands. and throwing a pass into the net on purpose for a touchdown sounds like the ultimate “cheat” play (like any play with randy moss on madden). all i’m saying is that knowing that, can’t you admit it at least might be a good idea? and watch arena football sometime, it’s a good holdover until the nfl comes back and it’s better than nfl europe. i think it’s on nbc, but maybe not, but it’s pretty good. yup.
February 8th, 2006 at 11:07 am
“probably even more than pro basketball”
I suspect that’s a Pacers knock.
I’ll ignore it.
Also, I’m not as big of a football fan as you. I just wait for the NFL to finish so I can have NBA on network TV again.
February 9th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
EA Sports International Field Hockey anyone?