| mike_intellivision said: Folks, I am of two minds of this one. Kart racing is an accepted genre -- so not letting anyone else do it would be foolish. EA has a valuable license and a console to put something on it (since the regular game would receive negative complaints). I think the sky looks good, the water is OK (we've talked about Wii screen caps before) but the trees are just bad. A lot will depend on gameplay. It could be good. It could be horrid. And don't get me started about the NASCAR bashing. It almost takes an engineering degree to know how to set up or even drive a car. (Speaking of which, I am surprised that E-Sad was in there and not Purdue engineering grad Ryan Newman). Plus, NASCAR considers a down crowd to be 150,000. How many football matches (soccer or North American) draw that -- with tix averaging $75 each? Mike from Morgantown |
Mike, no one is bashing EA for making a kart racer. We are bashing EA for making a Mario Kart clone. They could have come up with an original kart racer that offered different gameplay. However this game even uses Items similar to Mario Kart, they just changed the names.
@senortaco
EA is not taking the safe route on the HD consoles. Mirror's Edge, Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth, a RTS game developed for a gamepad, Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, another RTS game developed for a gamepad, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, another RTS game developed for a gamepad, Dead Spce, and The Lord of the Rings: Conquest. All of these games are expensive to develop and no Wii game, developed by EA, even comes close to matching the development resources or the polish of those games.
EA is looking to spend as little money on the develpment of Wii games as possible to make the most on their return.
If Nintendo is successful at the moment, it’s because they are good, and I cannot blame them for that. What we should do is try to be just as good.----Laurent Benadiba
