EA Xbox 360 titles (includes screens of Madden, NBA Live, and more)

RC Cola · Oct 3, 2005

Here's a list of titles EA will be showcasing at X05 for the Xbox 360:

Need for Speed Most Wanted

Experience illicit street racing at its best! Need for Speed Most Wanted takes gamers on a wild ride through the world of day-time street racing combined with the intensity of strategic police pursuits. Players can customize any type of car to go bumper to bumper against any class of vehicle including tuners, muscle cars, and exotics. But beware; these in-game police aren't your typical video game cops. They're intelligent and will use a number of real-life strategies and tactics to get you behind bars and your tuned-up car impounded. In Need for Speed Most Wanted for Xbox 360, players will face more intense cop pursuits with a higher volume of police on patrol, as well as more interactive environments and traffic. Gamers will also see the infinite detail that can only be visually achieved on a next generation console in the environments and on the in-game cars. From the dynamic time of day changing from sunrise to sunset, down to the paint flecks on the vehicles, players will live, breathe and race through the highly detailed world of Need for Speed Most Wanted.

FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup

EA celebrates its new exclusive FIFA World Cup interactive entertainment partnership with the release of FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup, a game which immerses players into the emotional intensity of next generation football. Utilizing the power of the Xbox 360, fans will be able to revel in the world's most sophisticated representation of football ever. Experience a newly enhanced gameplay engine that delivers extremely responsive controls and greater level of depth. New physics and animations mean that players will now react more realistically to every tackle, shot or pass of the ball. For the first time you'll see and feel the joy, anguish and pain of 90 minutes of soccer in a videogame. Through the power of HD technology you'll see how the detail of the players is accurately recreated in fine detail. The power of the Xbox 360 truly brings to life 80,000 chanting fans in a stadium and immerses you in the emotional intensity of FIFA World Cup football.

NBA LIVE 06

Live and breathe basketball like never before with NBA LIVE 06 on the Xbox 360. Rebuilt from the ground up and powered by next generation gameplay, players can see and feel the emotion and intensity of the complete basketball experience with NBA LIVE 06. Players jump to life with real-world physics and enhanced animations including sweat rolling down the players' faces. With true-to-life details, major gameplay advancements, and unprecedented player graphics, the sport of basketball is elevated to a whole new level with NBA LIVE 06.

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 06

With greatness comes pressure and in Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 06 on Xbox 360, players experience the intensity of competing in championship PGA TOUR events. Thousands of fans line the fairways and pack grandstands surrounding the greens, watching every shot as players aim to become the world's #1 golfer. Players have a shot at realizing their ultimate dream of earning a PGA TOUR Card through Q-school and climbing the ranks on the PGA TOUR by playing against some of the world's greatest golfers like Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh and Chris Dimarco. With 108 holes of golf on six of the most prestigious courses, all brought to life with realistic and stunning detail, players will experience what it takes to read a severely sloping green at Pinehurst No.2 and sink that critical putt or escape from the waist-deep grass at Carnoustie in Scotland while trying to save par. It's that pressure and the challenge of competing against some of the world's top golfers on intimidating courses that await you in the next generation of Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 06.

Madden NFL 06

Setting the bar for the next generation of gaming, Madden NFL 06 for the Xbox 360 has been built from the ground up to deliver completely redesigned gameplay and the most lifelike football experience ever created. You will feel the true emotion and passion of the NFL, on and off the field, with revolutionary player models and a new graphics engine that provides realistic lighting and visual effects on players, stadiums and fans that have never been seen before. With a full Franchise mode, in-depth online(1) play and a new play calling and presentation style, Madden NFL 06 will once again deliver the most intense experience as the only authentic and licensed NFL videogame.

Additional EA titles under development for Xbox 360 include: The Godfather(TM), Battlefield 2: Modern Combat(TM) and a new title from the Burnout(TM) Revenge franchise. Release dates for these titles and additional titles under development for Xbox 360 have not been announced.

More information and screenshots of EA's Xbox 360 launch titles are available at www.info.ea.com.
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And now for some screens (link form since these are all pretty big):

Madden 06
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NBA Live 06
http://media.xboxyde.com/gallery/public/1949/755_0001.jpg
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http://media.xboxyde.com/gallery/public/1949/755_0003.jpg (posted this one earlier in the NBA Dish)

FIFA 06
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NFS:MW
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Battlefield 2: Modern Combat
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There's also an article from IGN about Madden:
http://sports.ign.com/articles/655/655376p1.html

Surfguy · Oct 3, 2005

Why do we care since we're all buying PS3 for Blu-Ray?

Question for you RC , how does the MS Xbox(now) or XBox 360(in the future) do hi-def games if it is using a conventional 480i DVD player? Is it all through upconversion? I haven't bothered to study up on this but my understanding is you need a hi-def player to read a hi-def DVD in its native format(720p, 1080i, etc). So, are all MS games artificially enhanced hi-def starting from 480i? If so, then why do some games support...say...720p...while others don't support anything but 480p. I'm missing something...maybe a brain.

RocketFan007 · Oct 3, 2005

Well, Ronaldinho looks as ugly on Xbox 360 as he does in real life.

Svpernaut · Oct 3, 2005

BF2 looks SAWEET!

DaDakota · Oct 3, 2005

I already pre ordered mine...can't wait.

JunkyardDwg · Oct 3, 2005

Those first (for obvious reasons) and last Madden shots looked bad. This is football so why does everything have such a "clean" look to it. I'd like to see more grittiness please.

mogrod · Oct 3, 2005

Well, I wasn't going to but Madden for the 360, since I already have it for the XBOX, but that article sold me.

AMS · Oct 3, 2005

is it just me or does the nba graphics totally clown the fifa ones?

RC Cola · Oct 3, 2005

Surfguy said:

Question for you RC , how does the MS Xbox(now) or XBox 360(in the future) do hi-def games if it is using a conventional 480i DVD player? Is it all through upconversion? I haven't bothered to study up on this but my understanding is you need a hi-def player to read a hi-def DVD in its native format(720p, 1080i, etc). So, are all MS games artificially enhanced hi-def starting from 480i? If so, then why do some games support...say...720p...while others don't support anything but 480p. I'm missing something...maybe a brain.
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First off, I just want to say that I'm not completely familiar with how hi-def games work, especially on the Xbox.

The way I understand it, it is a choice for the developer as to what the native resolution of their games will be. Most current-gen games are 480i/p since anything above that would take a large chunk of processing power; some devs would rather use that power for AI, graphics, animation, etc., instead of just making the game natively 720p or whatever. The Xbox GPU is a little better at producing HD-resolutions than any of the other consoles, but it still wasn't really that practical.

The Xbox 360 has been a little more confusing, although it started off simple. At first, MS said that every game must have a native resolution of 720p; I think this is still the case, but there has been some conflicting evidence recently, which I didn't really get into. I think the gist of it was that some 360 games were being shown at lower resolutions (1024x576 for example) w/o jaggies, and some 1280x720 screens of the same game had noticeable jaggies. This may suggest that developers may be able to create games at lower resolutions that scale up to the required resolution, instead of actually being created at that resolution natively.

AFAIK, the fact that it uses DVD has nothing to do with it really, unless you start including hi-def prerendered movies on games (should still be doable on DVD with WMV compression). It is really up to the hardware and the developers as to whether or not to make the game natively 720p (or even 1080p, although that is a little tough to do practically on the 360 ).

I hope that answered you question. If not, let me know and I'll try to see if I can learn more about the topic. I usually just read up on the stuff that interests me, but if there is something else that any of you guys would like answered that I don't know the answer to, I try to keep any eye out on it.

UTweezer · Oct 3, 2005

how come the nba live 360 screens look as good as NBA 2K6 Xbox screens..

RC Cola · Oct 3, 2005

IGN also has some Live impressions:
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/655/655403p1.html

This part is interesting:

With most any series transition to next-generation consoles, some longtime features have to be dropped in order to meet deadlines. This is especially true for sports games these days as they're almost all replete with deep franchise modes, create-a-player options, additional gameplay types and more. That means no dunk contest, no three-point shootout, and no Superstar Freestyle moves.

NBA Live 06 for the Xbox 360 has had to scale a few of these features back, so EA based its feature set on what it figured players would look to as being most important. A priority was placed on customizing players, so a create-a-player option is set up in the game. We haven't had a chance to check out that aspect yet, but hopefully it'll allow you enough control that you can create a nearly photorealistic recreation of yourself on the court.

The create-a-player features come in lieu of a full franchise mode, however. You'll have to make due with playing through a single season at a time, unable to carry over stats or create a new dynasty with your team. We haven't seen how deep the single season mode runs, though we'd guess that it'll be pretty bare-bones.

Though it's unfortunate that EA has had to leave out a full franchise mode for the first incarnation of Live on the next-gen systems, the other tweaks to the game's on-court camera, the slick menu system, the visuals of course and whatever else we haven't seen yet looks like a nice first step. We're hoping that EA has set itself up for the future in a way that we can't fathom yet, and that the Live series will continue to evolve into something that really meets the definition of next-generation.
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