New info on some EA games (HL2 on next-gen consoles, Wii Sports, LOTR RPG, and more)

RC Cola · Jul 16, 2006

This is a couple of days old, but only because I've been without Internet access for a week.

Here's a link to a recap of the event where EA mentioned all this stuff:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6153984.html
Some excerpts:

TEAM FORTRESS 2. WHERE DID THIS COME FROM? Hey, they're still making it! It's got a totally exaggerated, crazy art style now. Looks a little like Spy vs. Spy or No One Lives Forever, kind of a '60s spy feel. It's going to be the included multiplayer mode in Episode 2! Class-based, etc. You know the drill. Great news for shooter fans. We all thought this game was dead years ago.

And hey, Half-Life 2: Ep 2 will ship for Xbox 360 and PS3 simultaneously with the PC. The console games will basically include all of the HL2 back content, so you'll get everything on there that you can get on the PC. Who expected all this Valve news?
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Steve Gray is now on, showing off the first concept art and now the first trailer from LOTR: The White Council. Looks like it's set before Bilbo finds the One Ring (that is, before The Hobbit). Art style and even all the characters' likenesses are of course straight out of the movies, and there's new voice-over from Ian McKellen, Hugo Weaving, and Cate Blanchett. Now Christopher Lee, too. Hard to say if any of this stuff is real time, but they obviously want to immerse you in the lore of Middle-earth.

OK, Gray says the impressive visuals in the trailer are the target for the final graphics, so we'll see how they shape up.
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Now Jason Armenise from EA Canada is up for Madden on the Wii. The Wii seems to have this uncanny ability to make you care about genres you don't even usually play, just to see how they've mapped existing concepts onto that wacky controller. There's a live demo with the controller and nunchaku, showing off the pointer-style "free-motion control." You can even use the nunchaku to juke and the remote to stiff-arm, or raise them both up to pump up the crowd. Lots of interesting ideas going into the control scheme here, looks like.
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3:04 Tiger Woods, SSX, NFS Carbon, Godfather--all coming for the Wii. All featuring Wii-specific control features. EA seems committed.
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More at the link (ESPN integration, NFS Carbon, Madden 360, etc.), and at some other articles that report specifically on these topics (like this one for HL2+Ep1+Ep2 for the 360/PS3).

OT, but for those that don't mind, I'd appreciate any info regarding anything video game related that occurred in the last week (since the 9th). I've skimmed over some of the reports at IGN and Gamespot as well as some forums, but I might have missed something big that happened while I was away. The HL2 news and the NPD numbers ( at DSL) seem like the most notable things that occured.

For the most part, I was able to keep up on the Rockets w/o Internet access, although it took me a while to confirm that it was not Kirk Hinrich that the Rockets traded for but Kirk Snyder. Stupid ESPN BottomLine.

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