EA is teasing some mild particulars about its upcoming action-adventure sport.
The venture was first talked about when EA established Motive studios in Canada again in 2015. The workforce there’s headed up by former Ubisoft studio head and trade veteran Jade Raymond, however little else is thought about it.
What EA did say on the time was that it’s going to be the corporate’s large foray into the action-adventure style, which has up to now eluded EA, regardless of others seeing success with collection like Assassin’s Creed, and the myriad of different open-world action-adventure video games.
At this week’s UBS Global Technology Conference (through GamesIndustry), EA CFO Blake Jorgensen talked slightly bit in regards to the mysterious sport, saying that it’s going to have distinctive gameplay mechanics.
“We have a team in Montreal that is building a brand new action franchise, probably for our Fiscal [Year] 2021 that also looks fantastic and very exciting,” stated Jorgensen.
“A new game, with a lot of new interesting gameplay that I don’t think anyone’s ever seen before.”
Jorgensen reiterated that EA lacks a robust action-adventure franchise, which is a part of why it’s working additional laborious to be a participant on this area. He talked about Anthem as being the opposite large motion title within the works at EA.
“That’s the largest sector in gaming. It’s one we haven’t spent a lot of time in because we were so focused on sports and first-person shooters. We feel like there’s a huge opportunity there,” he added.
Anthem is due out someday subsequent yr, whereas Motive’s venture remains to be a methods off.
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