“Dynamic commentary” in next FIFA titles, says EA
Electronic Arts (EA) Executive Producer of Football Andrew Wilson recently had a chat with gaming site Computer and Video Games (CVG) about the future of sports in video games, especially during this cycle of the console war. If you think FIFA 07 is next-gen already, you will be surprised with EA’s plans.
Before that though, Wilson couldn’t help but reminisce on what their development team experienced while making FIFA video games for the current-gen consoles. He lamented,
We ran out of space on the disc with current gen. Last year’s FIFA had 26 leagues, 15 thousand players, kits, players, stadiums, audio and music, you just run out of space. The next-gen discs have got more space so in the short term we will have much more commentary on our games.
After that, the official remarked that they are quite happy with the online capabilities of today’s video gaming consoles, especially those of the Xbox 360’s and PlayStation 3’s (PS3). When asked about possible additions to upcoming titles, Andrew Wilson focused on the game’s commentary features.
According to him, EA is considering to pop in “dynamic commentary” in their games so fans wouldn’t be hearing the same statement twice. This, according to Wilson, can be done on a weekly basis. His exact words were,
But think about competitions. Imagine having commentators popping up to commentate on interactive games. So you’re not reliant on commentary from our game anymore, you got someone who gets online and comments every week instead, who then gets a reputation.
Pretty exciting, don’t you think so? We wonder now when this dynamic commentary feature will be incorporated to the game. It better be sooner than later.
Electronic Arts (EA) Executive Producer of Football Andrew Wilson recently had a chat with gaming site Computer and Video Games (CVG) about the future of sports in video games, especially during this cycle of the console war. If you think FIFA 07 is next-gen already, you will be surprised with EA’s plans.
Before that though, Wilson couldn’t help but reminisce on what their development team experienced while making FIFA video games for the current-gen consoles. He lamented,
We ran out of space on the disc with current gen. Last year’s FIFA had 26 leagues, 15 thousand players, kits, players, stadiums, audio and music, you just run out of space. The next-gen discs have got more space so in the short term we will have much more commentary on our games.
After that, the official remarked that they are quite happy with the online capabilities of today’s video gaming consoles, especially those of the Xbox 360’s and PlayStation 3’s (PS3). When asked about possible additions to upcoming titles, Andrew Wilson focused on the game’s commentary features.
According to him, EA is considering to pop in “dynamic commentary” in their games so fans wouldn’t be hearing the same statement twice. This, according to Wilson, can be done on a weekly basis. His exact words were,
But think about competitions. Imagine having commentators popping up to commentate on interactive games. So you’re not reliant on commentary from our game anymore, you got someone who gets online and comments every week instead, who then gets a reputation.
Pretty exciting, don’t you think so? We wonder now when this dynamic commentary feature will be incorporated to the game. It better be sooner than later.
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