We all knew that EA was stepping into the Octagon with an MMA game all their own but up until now nobody had seen a screenshot. This picture comes from the official EA FaceBook page and was supposed to appear in an upcoming story about the game in Sports Illustrated.
Will it possess a steep learning curve like the THQ UFC game? It will undoubtedly be a hot game as more screenshots begin to surface and with the EA name behind it will have plenty of hype for shizzle.
Amazon has the game ‘Need for Speed: Nitro’ For Nintendo DS With $10 Game Credit for $29.99 + free shipping = $29.99 shipped! This deal includes a $10 credit that will be added to your account and is good towards your next video game purchase.
Game features:
Own the World¿When you¿re in first place, the walls of the city become covered with your graphic style. Now everyone knows that you¿re the one leading the pack.
Pick Your Ride¿The style and spirit of the game are rooted in car culture, with 30 classic and modern licensed cars including muscles, exotics, tuners, and more. Plus, race on 15 tracks featuring traffic, jumps, canyons, and events.
Battle to the Finish Line¿Increase other racers¿ heat levels to sick the cops on them, manage car damage to maintain maximum speed, and build up nitro with skilled driving to take the lead. The race is never over until you cross the finish line!
Extreme Customization¿Trick out your car¿s appearance using an incredibly deep yet intuitive customization system unlike anything seen on the Wii. Never before in a Need for Speed game have you had this much control over the look of your ride.
Coop World Tour Campaign¿Take part in illegal street races across five cities to unlock new cars, parts, tracks, and challenges. Up to three players can also join you to play cooperatively.
Style. The all time most over used word in the hip-hop language. It’s also my favorite word and I don’t really even like hip-hop. Need For Speed Shift is all about Style. Your style. Leaving behind the concepts found in the last several iterations of the Need For Speed franchise, Shift comes away as a much more focused and exciting racing game.
Anyone familiar with the series will no doubt be impressed with what has been done with Shift and happily accept the new direction the game has taken. Gone are the open world Midnight Club style races in favor of a good old fashioned racing game with some modern flair to boot. …Continue reading: Need For Speed Shift Xbox 360 Review
I’ll say it right now that I have not been following the development of Mass Effect 2. I was thoroughly disappointed in the first installment and couldn’t even play through it. Despite my disdain for this game this is an important nugget of gaming news.
EA will be releasing Mass Effect 2 to the salivating masses on January 26th in the US with Europe to follow on the 29th. Alongside this news is the announcement of some free bonus content if you pre-order ME2 in the form of a downloadable code once you bring the game home on launch day.
The content is split up between some select retailers. Most will receive codes for an “Inferno Armor” (pictured above), while pre-order content masters GameStop will get codes for the “Terminus Armor” (pictured below) as well as the M-490 Blackstorm Heavy Weapon. No word as to if this content will be accessible at any point to gamers who opt to not pre-order ME2.
Hoping to give gamers a more streamlined Madden experience this holiday at a budget price, EA is launching Madden NFL Arcade for the Xbox 360 and PS3 in December for only $15. In this version they’ve totally stripped down the presentation and gameplay, and transformed it into a game that you can play and perhaps finish a match in 10 minutes or less.
The game set-up is a fast paced and high scoring affair matching 5 players per team with no field goals, no penalties, 4 plays per possession, and the first team to score 30 points wins. The game will also incorporate a smaller field at 60 yards, cartoon-ish player models, and will have power-ups (called Game-Changers here), that allow you to alter the course of the game through freezing players, turn off passing icons, and more.
This may remind you of the short running NFL Street series but this time around it looks to be more accessible given the download only price. The game will also allow for 4 player co-op and 1 vs. 1 online play. Could this out sell Shadow Complex? …Continue reading: Madden NFL Arcade Arrives This December On XBLA And PSN
Playing Road Rash many years ago, I can still clearly remember how violently visceral it was. Smashing people in the face at high speeds with chains couldn’t easily be outdone in those days.
With brutal violence playing a major role in today’s video games, I had recently played Road Rash 1, 2, and 3 through the Sega Genesis Collection for the PSP and can say that they seemed pretty tame at best.
While nothing is confirming the video exactly, it looks awesome and the sense of speed is really captured to great effect. I’m hoping we soon see a leak of a new Desert/Jungle/Soviet/Nuclear/Future Strike game!
By now we all know what a behemoth the Madden franchise is and the impact it has had on sports gaming in general. Some cherish it and some loathe it, but it’s the only licensed NFL game available, so play it you must.
I remember a time when football gaming was competitive. Visual Concepts and Sega had released ESPN NFL 2K5 for $20 and EA Sports must have been straight spun. But alas, no more.
Soon after that I read in utter dismay that EA had monopolized football gaming through an exclusive and costly NFL license. In the years that followed, all the Madden reviews that I read couldn’t help but mention that EA was just dialing in their biggest and most lucrative franchise and that the series never really stepped it up from year to year.
While I agreed with these reviewers whole heartedly, I never stopped playing Madden. It was firmly lodged in my gaming subconscious from the days of the early 90’s on the Sega Genesis to the late 90’s on the Sega Saturn to every other console after that. I would never abandon it. I loved NFL 2K5 for the strides the developers took to give EA a run for their money in regards to gameplay, presentation, and fun-factor. But by no means was there ever a “bad” year of Madden, and it was often just a case of misallocated focus. But, in the end, it was never the best it could be.
With that said, Madden 2010 is by far the most impressive rendition of football gaming EA Sports has created in years, but one can only hope and wait for what will someday be a truly complete and epic John Madden NFL Football experience. Fingers crossed right?
**Before I get started on my review of Madden 10 I just want to note that I have been playing on an 2005 Xbox 360 that has already seen the three red lights.**
Presentation:
Receiving a positive and fresh overhaul this year, the whole look and feel of Madden NFL 2010 has a TV style sheen to it. Each game information about the stadium is given and there are some animated tie-ins that show tailgating, consumerism, and social banter. The in-game advertising is present once again but it would have been nice to have more of a variety instead of the same brands we’ve seen for years. And I’m not talking about Snickers.
I would have liked to see some major networks (ABC, NBC, FOX, EPSN, NFL Network) involved in the process with each game being broadcast by the corresponding network with all the appropriate graphic, such as that stupid FOX football robot dancing around (never gonna happen). Now that’s what should be the future of Madden, right? I swear I just cursed myself.
There could even be the specific announcers for each network. While this review is traveling down a wish list path already, I can’t help but think about all the possibilities. If EA truly wanted to champion an all great version of Madden NFL Football they wouldn’t have to make one every year. They could release roster updates and other downloads, and a perfect game of Madden wouldn’t require you to buy one every year. Would you pay $100 for a Madden NFL game that lasted you 3 or more years? Not that EA would ever do this (-$$$), but it’s not a bad idea to ponder from a non-technical/financial standpoint.
At the end of the day – let’s make that day be Sunday – the TV-style presentation is truly evident and a nice leap in the 2010 version. But with EA’s big slogan of the year being, “If It Happens On Sunday, Then You’ll See It In The Game”, what happens if I see it on Monday Night Football? …Continue reading: Madden NFL 2010 Game Review (Xbox 360)
Looks like perhaps EA wants to get in on this whole Modern Warfare madness. Isn’t that what Battlefield: Bad Company is? Good thing for EA that Activision doesn’t have an exclusive Modern Combat license right!
The rumblings going around consist of an ex-EA production intern from 2008 posting somewhere that he worked on a Medal of Honor: Modern Combat title doing some design and software engineering. Blah. Other rumor blurbs include a possible real life tie-in to the game via Operation Anaconda, which was an actual mission held in Afghanistan from back in 2002.
The only thing that is confirmed is that there is another “undefined” Medal of Honor game in the works according to EA CEO John Riccitiello. The last game in the Medal of Honor series was Airborne from 2007.
All this makes sense, but we’ll have to wait and see what rises to the top.
Thinking about purchasing the latest iteration of Need For Speed, called Shift? Ease off there speed racer and before you commit to the purchase why don’t you checkout the demo, which is now available for download from Xbox Live for $0. We scored a review copy of the game so we should have a review up shortly, but until then feel free to sound off in the comments section and tell us your thoughts. No really tell us.
Amazon has the game ‘Need for Speed: Nitro’ For Nintendo DS With $10 Game Credit for 
Amazon has the game Need for Speed: Shift for 
