All EA games piss me off. For some reason they all seem to get you to pick your storage unit at the start of the game and what name you are saved under. And they all have heaps of loading screens. It's like every game is made using the same structure. Quite annoying

Wiki....

it's probably just a joke dude

OK, I was going nuts over this issue of EA apparently releasing "Warcraft II: The Dark Saga (1997) " which was a release of The Tides of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal to PS1.

So I went through my old collection and found my original copy of the WCII Tides of Darkness:

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It clearly states down the bottom, Blizzard, how the F*K can EA claim this? Blizzard have never outsourced publishing - Wiki has some serious explaining to do!

I'm sitting here trying to think of a title from EA that I really enjoyed, but I keep coming up with other creators. "EA did Splinter Cell!....wait, no that was Ubisoft"  "But EA did Halflife.....no wait, Valve & Seirra"  Really, for the hundreds of games they've produced, a handful I have ever actually enjoyed, and none of them made my hall of fame.

Heres their C&C record:

# Command & Conquer: Generals (2003) — Windows
# Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour (2003) — Windows
# Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (Collector's Edition) (2000) — Windows
# Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (200 — Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
# Command & Conquer: Red Strike (2002) — Windows
# Command & Conquer: Renegade (2002) — Windows
# Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge (2001) — Windows
# Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (2007) — Windows, Xbox360
# Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath (200 — Windows, Xbox 360

All of them based on Westwood's work and all of them a total joke. While Tiberium Sun was a serious let down, it was because Westwood was under pressure to make a sequel they never planned on doing, and when it bottomed out, everyone pulled out of the company, allowing EA to step in. buy them up, take the title and started churning out the cr*p above. I especially like:

The Command & Conquer Collection (2003) — Windows


Which was C&C 1 / Red Alert 1 + their expansions, I'm not too sure if it contained Tiberium Sun, at any rate, neither were EA created, but released under their name. That just sh*ts me!

And you see it in other titles, The Godfather: The Game, Harry Potter, James Bond, Lord of the Rings, they are all based on someone elses work. The only good games EA have done that I enjoyed were MOHAA & Need for Speed series. Of the list of 200 or more itles, that not very impressive.



*Side note, while trolling the wiki list, I found EA had done "Warcraft II: The Dark Saga (1997) ".  I find this odd as Blizzard has always owned the Warcraft series, I have never heard of them releasing the game to EA.

And let's not forget EA killing Bullfrog! No more Magic Carpet thanks to those bastards!

I can give EA credit. I can give credit where it's due. I don't see that EA is due any credit. Dead Space and Mirror's Edge may change this, but so far they have done nothing to earn any credit. Their response to DD on the PC has been shocking, and their conotinued use of the most invasive  forms of DRM is ridiculous if not out-right rude. Even with the Bioware merger I was planning on getting Mass Effect, but with ridiculous DRM in place and no way to DD it without paying full price for content completely lacking in physical material, shipping and manufacturing costs, I say screw them. They haven't done a thing to lift their game so far, bar relaxing their yearly sequels mandate.

I was think about getting it, but I don't think I can be bothered getting it to work on vista.

Dude, give them credit - I think EA knows about that perception and is making definite moves away from it. They're creating so many new IPs on top of their classic franchises now, and trying to reinvent those yearly games too. I think Activision may be the new EA - big, buying up companies, and starting to churn out the games, running franchises into the ground (Guitar Hero etc.).

EA are good at taking credit for shit they've never done. People praise them for the Burnout series, but EA didn't have a hand in it  until the 3rd one, and the series hasn't gotten much better in the three sequels since then. I really believe EA do more harm than good with the policies of buying up the little guys and forcing yearly updates for major franchises. Killing Westwood was one of the worst things they ever did.

I wasn't under the impression EA made Red Alert, infact I'm quite sure Westwood was still at the helm back then, it seems to me this is a ploy to get koodos for a game they never made?

At any rate, my Red Alert and Red Alert expansion CDs are still sitting to my right, along with Crusader, Warcraft 1 + II and ofcourse all other Command & Conquer titles ever made (save Red Alert 2 which was an insult to the series). THats just me though, and if you haven't played C&C before, Red Alert is one impressive game, not as stunning as the original, but close. GIve it a crack if you like RTS.

While I see EA as a great gaming team, I still wish Westwood never went under, they really did make C&C the mother of all RTS IMO, EA just don't do the titles justice, sorry guys.