poor Electronic Arts...

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Bitmap Frogs on 15 December 2008

Interestingly enough, EA's just premiered the teaser for Dante's Inferno, made by the same developer as Dead Space (tho we don't know if it's the same team working on it). Making a videogame adaptation of a literary masterpiece from the XIII'th century is certainly taking a risk...

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Godot on 15 December 2008

I agree with the OP with the risks concerning Activision. EA are in that position now because most of their franchises are the shadow they once were. The best selling Need for Speed sold over 8 million copies. Their business model of a yearly iteration has made that those franchises are getting less popular each year.

Now, Activision was a shovelware company last gen like THQ. They became big on the success of Guitar Hero and Call of Duty but those 2 IP will eventually become stale and the gamers' interest will wane. We wouldn't be expecting the new Mario, Zelda, Final Fantasy, Halo, GTA, Gran Turismo so eagerly if we were getting one every year.

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BengaBenga said:

JGarret said:
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Hey man, so you played the demo...it´s been a LONG time the last time I saw or read anything related to RE5, so I´m completely out of the loop....tell me, why is it everyone is considering RE5 an 'action' game and calling it 'Gears of Evil 5'?

Because that's basically what it is. Ok, you can still not run and shoot (thank goodness) but other than that it's RE4 x 10 (and I don't mean the quality, but the shooting). Loads of ammo, pretty crappy AI.

The game looks absolutely great and I'll definitely buy it cause I want to know the story, but where RE4 had a certain feel to it that made it horror, this demo at least didn't.

Benga hit the nail on the head... It looks like it will be a fun 1 week buddy co op game though. Not something I'd want from Resident Evil...but I'll take it nevertheless.

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woopah on 15 December 2008

im guessing dante's inferno is on PS360?

hopfully they continue with new wii IPs, im sure that boom blox has got them more profit than mirrors edge and dead space combined (at least so far)

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The biggest ownage was Facebreaker. That game was a massive bomb, and they tried hyping it.

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I hope there's a Dead Space 2.

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Ari_Gold on 15 December 2008

Theres been some cool new IPS from EA

Skate
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Aj_habfan said:
The biggest ownage was Facebreaker. That game was a massive bomb, and they tried hyping it.

I liked the demo, they had a peter moore lookalike available as a player character.

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MANUELF on 15 December 2008

woopah said:
im guessing dante's inferno is on PS360?

hopfully they continue with new wii IPs, im sure that boom blox has got them more profit than mirrors edge and dead space combined (at least so far)

This