Check out the games of the Electronic Arts E3 2022 press conference

Battlefield: Hardline EA press conference E3 2022

Following Microsoft's great Media Conference this morn, Electronic Arts put on a printing conference of its own. EA did a fine job with their briefing last year, the highlight of which for me was the announcement of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare for Xbox consoles. Could this year'southward announcements promise to compete with that?

The 2022 presentation was handled past Andrew Wilson, Electronic Arts CEO. Disappointingly we didn't get to hear from fan-favorite Peter Moore this year. But we did acquire almost a ton of incredible games, including Star Wars Battlefront, Dragon Historic period Inquisition, a new Mass Outcome, The Sims 4, Mirror's Border 2, Battleground Hardline, and more. Total Impressions subsequently the intermission!

Star Wars Battlefront by DICE

EA chose to start potent by teasing the new Star Wars Battlefront game. Battlefront is multiplayer-centric serial that was hugely popular during the Playstation 2 and original Xbox era. After LucasArts cancelled Star Wars Battlefront 3 mid-evolution, it seemed that the serial would disappear forever… Until EA caused the Star Wars license and rescued the series following LucasArts' closure.

The teaser video revealed very little data about the new Battlefront (which will non have a 3 in its title). Nosotros saw the staff of DICE visiting the Star Wars archives in order to photograph (and scan?) photos and models from the films. Hoth (the setting of The Empire Strikes Back) will be one of the game'due south main locations, naturally. The important thing is that DICE has tons of experience with its own Battlefield series of large-scale multiplayer shooters, so the team'south skillset transfers perfectly to Star Wars Battlefront.

Dragon Age Inquisition past Bioware

Beginning teased at last year's printing conference, nosotros finally got an idea of what the third Dragon Age will play like. But commencement EA teased usa more with a trailer that showed diverse glimpses of the game's fantasy world. Highlights included a light-green beam of energy descending from the clouds, a third-person view of a grapheme navigating a city, and a dragon.

Players will create their own main character in Inquisition, one whose past and motivations are shrouded in mystery. Presumably y'all'll fill in the blanks as you play the game and brand choices that affect the story.

The main character volition be accompanied past a squad every bit with past games. Some of its members include a bearded Gray Warden, a female elfish archer, a lusty Kunari mercenary who fights with a giant hammer, and a dark-skinned female mage. Each of these teammates will take his or her own unique backstory to discover as the game progresses.

Inquisition'south gainsay debuted via actual gameplay footage. Players can cull between 2 gainsay systems: action and tactical. Activity looked very heady, with the team working together to take downwards a dragon. The behind-the-dorsum camera switched betwixt diverse party members, seemingly at the player's will. We didn't get much of a wait at tactical fashion, merely information technology utilizes an overhead perspective and pauses between turns similar in traditional RPGs.

More than from Bioware: Mass Event, new IP

Bioware (which includes the proper Montreal studio equally well as EA'south Austin studio) is also hard at work on two more games: a new Mass Effect, and a brand-new IP. Zip was revealed about the new Mass Issue other than plans to feature new places, characters, and regions of space.

As for the new IP, we glimpsed a fantasy world with day, dark, and conditions cycles – and that's it. I'k sure EA will reveal more later this year or at E3 next yr.

New IP by Benchmark

Benchmark is the UK-based studio that created the Burnout series of racing games besides as developing some Need for Speed titles. Although the studio doesn't accept a new Burnout in the works, the game it'south working on actually looks much more exciting. It doesn't have a name though!

The new game will still feature lots of driving…. Simply non so many cars. Instead, players volition go to drive or pilot an unrivaled array of vehicles, including helicopters, boats, jetskis, ATVs, wingsuits, parachutes, and snowmobiles! And the whole game volition take place in the first-person perspective – possibly without the option to switch to a third-person view.

Presumably we'll get to crash some of those vehicles every bit well. But the game is still very early in development (equally evidenced by the lack of title), so specific details are even so scarce. This will exist Criterion'south largest title ever – let's hope the fun matches the increase in telescopic!

Mirror'due south Border ii by Die

Like Dragon Historic period, our first tease of Mirror'due south Edge 2 came during final year's press conference. The new video introduction focused on the design of Faith, the same protagonist from the get-go game. She dresses in black and white and has minimal dabs of color equally accents. And she is a runner, someone who uses parkour to deliver information while evading the oppressive governmental authorities.

Afterward talking Faith upward a bit, DICE shared some lovely epitome footage from the game. Unlike the Windows Phone game, Mirror's Edge 2 takes place in a first-person perspective. Faith will run, jump, and slide across rooftops, scaffolding, and zip-lines as she crosses levels that feature multiple routes. She also engages in melee combat, punching and boot the evil police who would thwart her mission.

Being that Mirror'south Border 2 is still in the paradigm stage, nosotros shouldn't expect information technology until 2022.

Battlefield Hardline by Visceral

It looks similar EA plans to make Battlefield an annualized series, just like its biggest competitor Phone call of Duty. Since Dice is busy with Star Wars Battlefront and Mirror'southward Edge 2, the evolution duties become to Visceral Games (formerly EA Redwood Shores) – makers of the Expressionless Space series.

Hardline is a major divergence from the traditional armed forces settings of the Battlefield series. The new focus is the war on the streets between cops and criminals. That ways new worlds, weapons, and ways to play. Players will exist able to play on either side and engage in both a campaign and large-scale multiplayer matches. The campaign will be more cinematic than other FPS titles, playing out like a televised offense drama.

EA showed footage from a 32-player game of Heist, a new multiplayer mode. Despite being multiplayer, the Heist started out with a chat betwixt cops existence news footage of a major heist in progress. It looked cool and seemed to build off of Titanfall's story-based multiplayer concepts.

Once the game starts, the criminal side of the game must collect a package and escape with it while the cops try to stop them. The ii sides will fight information technology out on foot also every bit utilizing vehicles, a staple of the series. Nosotros saw player-controller law cars, Armored Personnel Carriers, bikes, and helicopters. The destructible environments that featured so heavily in Battlefield 4 return, with a crane or like structure crashing through a building and causing major havoc on the battlefield.

When the footage focused on the criminals, we caught side of the bad guys fighting off cops with baseball bats, sawed off shotguns, and other appropriate armaments. The crooks escaped from a skyscraper via zipline to another rooftop where their helicopter anxiously awaited. Although the bad team managed to take off in their chopper, the lucifer didn't terminate there. The cops shot them downwardly and nosotros saw the autumn from one of the crooks' perspectives.

Battlefield Hardline is due out on Xbox One, 360, PC, and Playstation systems on October 21. Hopefully it won't suffer from persistent technical issues like Battlefield 4. To that terminate, EA announced that a airtight beta for the game starts today. Bad news for Xbox enthusiasts: the beta is only for PC and Playstation 4! To sign up, head to battlefield.com/hardline/beta.

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The Sims 4 EA press conference E3 2022

Electronic Arts too showed The Sims 4 (pictured) and a MOBA called Dawngate for PC, plus several sports games: EA Sports UFC (which looks great), NHL 15, EA Sports PGA Tour, Madden NFL xv, and FIFA 15. Check out our EA Sports write-upwardly for more than details!

Overall, the conference was quite impressive despite a woeful lack of plants and zombies. Andrew Wilson repeatedly stressed the corporation's desire to listen to players and react to their feedback. "Tell u.s. what you think. We encompass the honest and open up dialogue," he intoned. Hopefully EA makes adept on that mantra and continues to deliver player-pleasing titles throughout the next year and beyond.

Xbox Insiders Update

This huge Xbox 'Quick Resume' update will give gamers more control

Microsoft is adding a new feature to Xbox consoles, allowing you to permanently store upward to two games in a Quick Resume state at all times. The feature is heading out first to Xbox Insiders in the Blastoff testing ring before hitting the general public.