Yesterday, Electronic Arts hosted a huge and well-organized event called EA Experience in Mumbai. The event was held to announce EA’s new holiday blockbuster game titles to the Indian gaming community. Better still was the fact that gamers actually got a chance to get their hands on several games on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC platforms.
Ajay Khanna, General Manager, India, EA was at EA Experience. He said, “India has a huge potential for gaming. It is a strategic market for EA. Since, 2006 we hit several milestones and have contributed significantly to the growth of the gaming industry in India. This holiday season we plan to release a line-up of leading titles simultaneously with their worldwide release. We look forward to sharing EA Experience, with our partner and gamers.”
The new games that will be available in time for the festive season are Need for Speed ProStreet, Army of Two, Crysis and The Simpsons Game. However, gamers present at EA Experience did not get to play these games, but were shown videos instead.
Other than these, hit EA games such as Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08, NBA Live 08, FIFA 08, SKATE and Medal of Honor Airborne were all available there for gamers to sample. Sports fans must have surely got a good chance to live out their fantasy in a virtual sports stadium with NBA LIVE, FIFA 08 and SKATE.
Here is a little something about the new EA games:
Need for Speed ProStreet:
This game is your ultimate taste of the chaos and unbridled adrenaline of street racing. The atmospehere is electric- complete with energetic crowds, photo-realistic cars and billowing smoke-a ll designed to embody the pressure and intensity of the gladiatorial challenge known as Show Down. Need fro Speed ProStreet will race into Indian stores in November, 2007.
SKATE:
This game is the closest thing to skateboarding without actually putting your feet on a board. With innovative Flickit controls that take advantage of the dual analog sticks, SKATE delivers an authentic experience. SKATE will ship in October 2007 itself for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.
NBA Live 08:
Building upon a solid foundation of 5-on-5 gameplay, NBA LIVE 08 introduces a set of 4 all-new features – Quickstrike Ballhandling, own the paint, hot spots and signature go-to moves to increase user control, while providing an unrivaled level of authenticity to the sport of basketball. Now you can dominate with your Go-To Move with NBA LIVE 08.
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08:
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 for the Xbox 360TM and PLAYSTATION 3 is brimming with new features that will excite the fans of the game, fans of golf and fans of video games in general. There is an emphasis this year of user created content, which includes created characters, highlights or playable scenarios. Challenge your fellow golfers in an exciting new form of competition with EA SPORTS GamerNet. Save replays of a shot, hole, front nine, back nine, or entire round and post it online for other players to challenge. Other features such as GamerNet and Photo Game Face allow you to create realistic faces and share them with others around the world.
Medal of Honor Airborne:
This game is set to redefine the series and will change the way shooters are played. For the first time in an FPS, players airdrop into combat and land anywhere in an open battlefield. Conflict on the ground offers unprecedented tactical choice in open battle spaces with a wealth of attack routes and flanking opportunities. Medal of Honor Airborne is the newest installment in EA’s critically acclaimed Medal of Honor franchise, credited with pioneering the WWII FPS genre when it debuted in 1999. Developed at EA Los Angeles under the EA brand, Medal of Honor Airborne is available for the Xbox 360 system and PC and in November for the PLAYSTATION 3 system.
Army of Two:
Never go into battle alone! The deadliest two-man private military outfit a government can buy is hitting retail shelves this winter. Delivering a groundbreaking strategic 3rd person co-op shooter unparalleled in the action genre, EA Montreal’s ARMY OF TWO focuses on gameplay centered around TWO man missions, TWO man strategies, TWO man tactics and a TWO man advantage. The breakthrough gameplay in ARMY OF TWO, with a live or adaptive AI partner, enables you to take advantage of two-man strategies like customizable weapons, vehicles, and tactical shooting. ARMY OF TWO is launching this winter on the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment systems and the Xbox 360 videogame and entertainment system.
Crysis:
A mysterious artifact found on an island in the South China Sea leads to a power struggle between the US and North Korea. An elite squad of Special Forces operatives is sent on what turns out to be more than just a standard search and rescue mission when it is discovered the artifact is a Trojan Horse for a massive alien invasion. Both global super powers will have to unite to battle this mysterious, menacing threat amidst a dynamic, ever-changing environment including frightening zero gravity conditions. To defeat the aliens, players will have to change their tactics on the fly, fully utilizing a revolutionary Nanosuit that enhances their ability to use strength, speed, armor or cloak to their advantage, and an arsenal of highly customizable weaponry.This highly anticipated game will soon be available in India for the PC platform in winter 2007.
The Orange Box:
The Orange Box delivers five games from Valve which include Half Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2 in addition to full versions of award-winning Half Life 2 and Half Life 2: Episode One for the most complete first-person action experience anywhere. The Orange Box will be available for Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 in October 2007.
The Simpsons Games:
THE SIMPSONS GAME features a hilarious, sprawling, and mind-busting storyline crafted by the TV show’s Emmy Award-winning writers. The action-comedy will also feature the full cast of voice actors from the TV show who will reprise their roles for the game. In THE SIMPSONS GAME, Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa use exciting, all-new powers to save the world from rising chaos. To help the Simpsons, gamers at home must journey through all of Springfield (as well as vast worlds beyond!), vanquish an amazing array of villains, and fight their way through parodies of popular games.
The newly announced EA game titles will be priced at Rs.999 for PC titles, Rs.1,999 for Xbox 360, Rs.2499 for PS3 titles, Rs.999 for PS2 games and Rs.1499 for PSP games.
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