Games Inbox: EA Sports FC vs. FIFA 24, Gotham Knights cancellation, and unfinished Halo Infinite
The Wednesday letters page is very impressed by the Unreal Engine 5 train station demo, as one reader recommends GRID Legends.
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Jo Casual’s favourite game So there we have it. EA has pulled the plug on FIFA and this year’s will be the last one… except it won’t because someone else will end up publishing FIFA 24 next year. I mean, surely that’s the point? EA didn’t keep the name because everybody knows it, they kept it to stop someone else having another game with exactly the same name.
Say Ubisoft bought the licence, for example. If Jo Casual sees a new game called FIFA 24 in the shop he’s just going to buy it, isn’t? He’s not going to look over the box (as if anyone buys boxes anymore) and then realise his mistake when there’s no little EA logo on the cover.
It will probably be true that EA Sports FC won’t be very different to FIFA 23, but I would imagine that FIFA 24, by a publisher that is not EA, will be a completely different game. This is going to cause a lot of confusion, a lot of nonsense marketing, and frankly I’m tired of it already.
The only way this is a good thing is if one side says that they’re not going to do lootboxes or NFTs or any other anti-consumer nonsense. But let’s face it, that’s never going to happen.Korbie
Almost real Wow, that Unreal Engine 5 demo of the train station is amazing. If you’d shown me that and said it was real life I would’ve absolutely believed. There’s no people in it, for obvious reasons because they’re much harder to replicate than just metal and concrete, but even so. It feels like we’re on the cusp of being able to replicate reality almost perfectly.
It’s true we won’t get any game looking this game for a while,
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