EA Sports Titles Coming To iPhone
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This week at GDC the announcement was made that EA was bringing several of its franchises to the iPhone. Notably many EA Sports titles are planned to be released this year including Madden 10, NBA Live 10, FIFA 10, and Tiger Woods 10. IGN has a hands-on article with Tiger from their time with it at GDC.
This game looks incredibly similar to a PSP title with nary a corner cut. The golfer model was lean and mean with excellent swing animations. I was particularly curious to try out the swing mechanic though, which uses the touch screen. Instead of following an arc, you use an almost conical meter that will remind old-school gamers of the original Atari logo.
For those of you with an iPhone how well do you think these sports games can translate over? It seems that as a gaming platform the iPhone is being looked at strongly as mobile gaming platform in competition with the PSP and DS that developers are attempting to take advantage of.
March 27, 2009 at 2:33 pm
The only game I can see being successful is Tiger Woods, all the other games just sound like they'd be frustrating to say the least…. I don't even know how feasible playing basketball or football could be where all controls are only accessible by a single touch.
March 27, 2009 at 6:38 am
Im on my iphone now and madden sounds like a great Idea for the iphone
March 27, 2009 at 4:10 pm
how would you be able to play a game live nba live or madden on the iphone? i have the iphone, and most of the games use the tilt feature with a couple of on screen buttons. but a game so complex like basketball or football would be difficult to port to the iphone. This is a great idea overall, but im just concerned about how the controls are gonna be. im sure the geniuses at apple will figure out something because they never disappoint but we have to wait and see i guess.
March 27, 2009 at 4:24 pm
if im not mistaken doesnt the iphone have sense thing built in like a wii controller….. if so i could see tiger woods being a complete success and just like dee and tom i dont see how you could control your players in madden and live ….we will soon see
March 27, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I have an iphone and I believe that Tiger Woods will be the one to make a successful transition on to the iphone platform. I'll probably purchase all the EA sports games on my iphone just so I can give my opinion on it, but I just can't see Madden or NBA Live appealing to the hardcore base on this platform. A coaching feature, or GM feature would be better suited for this platform…like an RPG, I don't know. I'm having the feeling the games will play like NBA Live 95 (try playing it today and imagine how we used to think this was the greatest thing ever at the time)
March 27, 2009 at 6:54 pm
As an iPhone owner who has played many different games on it. I would agree Tiger Woods would seem like the most logical for the iPhone. However i do think Madden, FiFA and NBA would work with a streamlined control scheme without a doubt. The Sims 3 would work fine as well IMO.
I definitely look forward to trying these out as i do like to game on my iPhone from time to time. Currently i find myself play Baseball Superstars 2009 quite a bit on the phone. It has a mode similar to RTTS which of course is on a much smaller scale where you really just do the batting and baserunning but its cool because you can train your player in a few different areas such as hitting , power, running….ect. while playing through a league in season mode. So i definitely can see EA bring alot of these games over to the iPhone.
Now the big question would be if EA can get the control schemes to work.
March 27, 2009 at 7:12 pm
They demo'd Sims 3 at the iphone 3.0 conference last week. Looks good.
The only sports game that I've somewhat enjoyed on the iphone has been real soccer 2009, but using a touch screen directional pad took time to get used to.
I'm going to have to try out Baseball Superstars.