EA's GamesCom Press Conference

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Mass Effect 2 - Meet Grunt
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Trailer


EA Video Stream

Kotaku Live Blog

 

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LMAO - Peter Moore is up on stage in shorts

 

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HeyOOOOOO - Katarina Witt will now be demonstrating EA Sports Active.

 

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Now they are showing Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Will be coming on March 2nd.

"Will redefine yadda yadda yadda"

Lots of vehicles to get a tactical advantage over land, sea, & air.

4 Player Squads. You can shoot a tracer dart to an enemy vehicle so that the rest of your squad can target it from anywhere on the map.

Destructible environments have been improved by being able to blow small holes inbuildings for snipers, being able to shoot away cover, to total building destruction.

 

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Now Tim Schafer to show Brutal Legend.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

Bad Company 2 looks great. I really liked the last one. Wish I could play it sooner but it would get crushed by MW2 which I also really want.

 

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LOL at Schafer talking lovingly about how well blood shows up on chrome while in Germany. Yes, Germany...where violent videogames are coming very close to being banned altogether.

Demo for Brutal Legend coming Sept 17th.

 

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And now, Dante's Inferno....the sixth circle of hell...heresy.

Showed of a new game mechanic where you can punish or absolve damned souls.

Coming Feb 9 2010.

 

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Now for Dragon Age Origins

Innovations:
*Origin stories
*Grey Wardens
*Every choice has a consequence for you and the people around you
*Every play-through is different
*Collector's Edition includes armor that can be used in Mass Effect 2 as well

 

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Time for some Mass Effect 2 now

Showing off squad recruitment. Who you choose will affect everything. How you interact will further affect how well you do in the game.

You action in Mass Effect 2 will affect your actions in subsequent games in the Mass Effect universe.

Trailer showing off new character who is 'the ultimate bodyguard'.

Still looks gorgeous.

 

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Now showing Star Wars: The Old Republic

This seems like more of a Bioware press conference now than an EA press conference. :laugh:

 

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Need for Speed: Shift is the last game on the docket.

 

[BenSkywalker]

Heh, the guy playing Shift sucks

 

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Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
Heh, the guy playing Shift sucks

I think trying to demo a game on stage in front of press while talking at the same time has to be incredibly difficult/nerve-wracking.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

I can't wait for the Lionhead reveal. I'm hoping Fable 3.

 

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And it's over. No children or animals were harmed.

 

[BenSkywalker]

I think trying to demo a game on stage in front of press while talking at the same time has to be incredibly difficult/nerve-wracking.

Absolutely, they should have tweaked for that though. Even when the other car went off the road it was gone so fast you could barely tell it was a McLaren before it was out of sight ahead of him again. Mainly I didn't like that as we didn't get a chance to see how the AI behaves at all, did get a good look at ther funky cockpit view though, I think people who like that perspective are really going to get into that.

 

[erwos]

Dragon Age is looking like a pre-order.

 

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Originally posted by: BenSkywalker

I think trying to demo a game on stage in front of press while talking at the same time has to be incredibly difficult/nerve-wracking.

Absolutely, they should have tweaked for that though. Even when the other car went off the road it was gone so fast you could barely tell it was a McLaren before it was out of sight ahead of him again. Mainly I didn't like that as we didn't get a chance to see how the AI behaves at all, did get a good look at ther funky cockpit view though, I think people who like that perspective are really going to get into that.

Well, we did get to see one thing about the AI. Apparently, one of the other cars spun off the track as well and he was able to catch up to it right before the demo ended before he crashed again. Don't see that too often with the AI in racing games.

 

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Trailer

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: erwos
Dragon Age is looking like a pre-order.

But which one? Amazon and GameStop have different in-game items

 

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BF:BC 2 looks great. Too bad Ill be in the early part of my next deployment when it comes out. :/