Canadians Making Football Games? EA eh?
Electronic Arts Charged With Bringing Euro 2004 to Consoles and PC - EA Canada gets development duties.
Electronic Arts and the Union of European Football Associations (that’s UEFA to you and me) have announced an agreement for EA to develop and publish the official videogame of UEFA Euro 2004. The game will be the official interactive entertainment experience of the Euro 2004 tournament.
"We are excited to extend UEFA's mission of promoting European football at every level of the game through our EA SPORTS simulation of the Euro 2004 final tournament event," said Jan Bolz, Vice President, Sales and Marketing for EA Europe. "Combining EA's global expertise in football videogames with UEFA's passionate European fan base will give football fans endless opportunity to relive the excitement and drama of Euro 2004."
The game, set for release on PC, PS2, Xbox, GameCube, GBA and – a bit of a surprise, this – Game Boy Color and PSOne, is due to coincide with the start of the UEFA Euro 2004 tournament in Portugal this June.
"We are excited to extend UEFA's mission of promoting European football at every level of the game through our EA SPORTS simulation of the Euro 2004 final tournament event," said Jan Bolz, Vice President, Sales and Marketing for EA Europe. "Combining EA's global expertise in football videogames with UEFA's passionate European fan base will give football fans endless opportunity to relive the excitement and drama of Euro 2004."
The game, set for release on PC, PS2, Xbox, GameCube, GBA and – a bit of a surprise, this – Game Boy Color and PSOne, is due to coincide with the start of the UEFA Euro 2004 tournament in Portugal this June.
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omer48912 7 Feb 2004 00:38
1/8
Canadians making a football game i bet that the game will not work (or it will be finished months after Euro2004, maybe august 2007).
hc_ChAoS 7 Feb 2004 23:23
2/8
Actually Canadaians kick ass at making games. Ever heard of Bioware? I dont see how it makes a difference if Canadians make it. Exept maybe there will be less slackers.
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config 9 Feb 2004 10:23
3/8
hc_ChAoS wrote:
>Actually Canadaians kick ass at making games.
>Ever heard of Bioware? I dont see how it makes a
>difference if Canadians make it. Exept maybe
>there will be less slackers.
Yep, I know who Bioware are ( http://spong.com/x?cid=2043 ), but can't think of any others off the top of my head.
omer48912 point was (I believe) more a question of a Canadian devco's skills at making football games. I'm not a football fan in the slightest, but I can honestly say I've never heard of Canadians even playing football (which they surely must - somewhere) let alone having world class teams.
Not that this matter, so long as the dev team are footy fans and can do a good job.
>Actually Canadaians kick ass at making games.
>Ever heard of Bioware? I dont see how it makes a
>difference if Canadians make it. Exept maybe
>there will be less slackers.
Yep, I know who Bioware are ( http://spong.com/x?cid=2043 ), but can't think of any others off the top of my head.
omer48912 point was (I believe) more a question of a Canadian devco's skills at making football games. I'm not a football fan in the slightest, but I can honestly say I've never heard of Canadians even playing football (which they surely must - somewhere) let alone having world class teams.
Not that this matter, so long as the dev team are footy fans and can do a good job.
SPInGSPOnG 9 Feb 2004 19:31
4/8
>more a question
>of a Canadian devco's skills at making football
>games.
And no-one ever questions brits making ice hockey games, and we ROCK at that sport!
>of a Canadian devco's skills at making football
>games.
And no-one ever questions brits making ice hockey games, and we ROCK at that sport!
ray_tugley 9 Feb 2004 20:56
5/8
>I'm not a football fan in the slightest,
>but I can honestly say I've never heard of
>Canadians even playing football (which they
>surely must - somewhere) let alone having world
>class teams.
Hey, i'm Canadian and i assure you we play soccer. You guys are from the UK right? You might have heard the names Peschisolido, De Vos, Brennan. They all play over there. Our national team is on course to qualify for the next world cup too. As for this game from EA, same gameplay as before, different teams, latest players. Big deal.
>but I can honestly say I've never heard of
>Canadians even playing football (which they
>surely must - somewhere) let alone having world
>class teams.
Hey, i'm Canadian and i assure you we play soccer. You guys are from the UK right? You might have heard the names Peschisolido, De Vos, Brennan. They all play over there. Our national team is on course to qualify for the next world cup too. As for this game from EA, same gameplay as before, different teams, latest players. Big deal.
SPInGSPOnG 10 Feb 2004 09:06
6/8
Ray Tugley wrote:
>Hey, i'm Canadian and i assure you we play
>soccer.
Dude, it's football!
>Hey, i'm Canadian and i assure you we play
>soccer.
Dude, it's football!
config 10 Feb 2004 09:24
7/8
Rod Todd wrote:
>Ray Tugley wrote:
>>Hey, i'm Canadian and i assure you we play
>>soccer.
>
>Dude, it's football!
LOL!
>Ray Tugley wrote:
>>Hey, i'm Canadian and i assure you we play
>>soccer.
>
>Dude, it's football!
LOL!
omer48912 10 Feb 2004 09:37
8/8
Canadians should not make football games but i dont care any way as most EA games are bad.
PES3 is 10 times better than fifa 2004 (only fifa 95 and 00 were any good).
PES3 is 10 times better than fifa 2004 (only fifa 95 and 00 were any good).