EA 2018 E3 Press Brief Impressions

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The annual event is here to show new games and what we can hope to expect for the next year. EA was the first to do their press briefing, and I am finally watching it. This coming late has absolutely nothing to do with me binge-watching My Hero Acadamia. No nothing at all...

  • Battlefield V
    • Another Battlefield game. This time in WWII. 
    • You can destroy more stuff and the game has a ton of customization.
    • No loot boxes and no "freemium" pass. This is a good thing. Apparently they can be taught.
    • Sounds like there will be lots of new content, including the new hotness, royals.
    • I can't say I care. But EA may have me a bit jaded right now.
  • FIFA 19
    • More Soccer / Football.
    • They have the World Cup in this game.
    • Given my love of sports games, this is be another pass for me.
  • Origin Access Premier
    • EA is going to stream HD Games in the cloud to devices via subscription
    • Madden NFL back on PC, and this starts on this service, later this summer.
    • Sounds like games going forward will be on this and access to back catalog.
    • No price quoted?
    • If this is just like OnLive was, where you can play full PC on mobile devices, that will be pretty cool.
  • Jedi Fallen Order
    • New Star Wars game by Respawn.
    • Takes place between EP III and EP IV.
    • There was nothing else shown and it is not coming out till Holiday 2019...
  • Star Wars: Battlefront II
    • Understatement of the year, didn't get the game "quite right" at launch.
    • Changed progression to cosmetics.
    • Added a "Hunt Mode" with Ewoks that was super popular.
    • Adding content from Solo: A Star Wars Story. 
    • OK, off topic for second, the presser they showed the same little video over and over while he was talking. What the heck?
    • Adding Clone Wars content with the planet Genosis.
    • Adding General Grevous, General Kenobi, Count Dooku, and Anakin Skywalker.
    • Maybe it is almost time to give it a shot?
  • Unravel two
    • I never played the first one.
    • Always two characters on the screen.
      • Co-op or single player.
      • Drop in drop out.
    • There is a red yarn puppet and a blue yard puppet.
    • The game looks pretty.
    • Your Spark shows you were to go.
    • Looks interesting. I like platform games so I may pick this up.
  • Sea of Solitude
    • New property by an Indie Studio in Berlin.
      • art of the EA Originals project.
    • Loneliness turns humans into monsters.
    • Game is about taking Kate, a human who became a monster, and finding out how it happened and how to turn back.
    • Love the art style, very stylistic.
    • Fingers crossed it is good.
  • Madden
    • Brought on the guy that won the Madden 18 championship.
      • Remember kids, you can make money playing games, but it takes a ton of work and time investment.
    • Madden 19 trailer shown.
      • Not a big sports fan, so props to those that love this franchise, I could care less though.
  • Command and Conquer Rivals
    • Mobile RTS
    • Showed a 3 control point map that has a nuke.
    • In this map, you have to control 2 points to fire a nuke at the enemy.
    • Smaller and quick matches on iOS and Android
    • Insert complaints that there is no new desktop C&C game here.
  •  Anthem
    • So what makes this different from Destiny?
      • Special individuals in fancy armor? Check
      • Limited Human cities due to earth getting invaded? Check
      • Multiplayer based? Check
      • Four classes instead of 3? There it is.
    • Bases are single player zone while the outside world is shared multiplayer.
    • Ranger, Colossus, Interceptor, Storm
      • You can swap out suits, that is pretty cool. Allows for an easy "respec" when you want a different play mode.
      • No loot boxes, no surprises on what you get when spending real money on cosmetics.
    • Releases 02/22/2019
    • Still seems kinda Destiny-ish.