![]() EA's year last year was less dire, but still not good, with BioWare essentially losing their magic, Star Wars: The Old Republic tanking, and Medal of Honor landing with a giant splat in late October 2012, two years after Medal of Honor 2010 was met with reviews of, "This janky ultra-scripted stuff is not fulfilling, and DICE was wasting their time that could've been better spent on Battlefield 3." EA wasn't even confident enough to send out pre-release review copies, because the game was buggy, had a massive day-one patch, and was still buggy AFTER the day-one patch. ![]() Two major components of THQ's implosion were putting the uDraw out on 360 and PS3, and spending an insane amount of money on marketing and developing Homefront. The era of the ultra-high-budget roller-coaster-rails ultra-cinematic first-person-shooter has passed for everyone except Activision. Even Activision's leapfrog studios are starting to get shaky, with critical reception of MW3 and BLOPS2 slightly worse than that of MW2 and BLOPS1 (despite sales continuing to increase even though sales is "the only number that counts on the balance sheet", Infinity Ward and Treyarch look like they're running out of tricks in the book). ![]() ![]() I think that Danger Close should start working on something far more original, far lower budget, with NO cutscenes, NO driving sequences outsourced to Black Box, and NO Hollywood film actor voice acting. No I have a feeling that they'd get that wrong, too.
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