EA has a pretty incredible warchest of IPs that they haven't touched in generations. They could lean into them and make some really great stuff. Some properties off the top of my head that I'd love to see EA take another stab at:
There has never been a bad Strike game, every single game in the series, on every platform, from Genesis to gameboy to playstation to saturn, has been great. A modern strike game with graphics and budget ala Xcom or Halo wars 2 or similar would be incredible.
Mutant League Football should be for football what NBA Jam was for basketball. Yes, I know about NFL Blitz, but midway doesn't exist anymore. Mutant League Football could fill the gap perfectly.
The Pinball Dreams/Illusions/Fantasies series is probably the greatest video pinball series ever made. A little while back, the Crush series of pinball games got a spiritual sequel in the form of Demon's Tilt pinball that was excellent. With Epic games seemingly never making another Epic Pinball, it'd be amazing to see EA revive the Dreams series instead. Put DICE back on the franchise that put them on the map.
It's been weird how the Need for Speed series got all the sequels, while the Road Rash series has withered and died. Like the Strike games, there really are no bad road rash games. There is Road Redemption today, but it misses a lot of what made Road Rash incredible. i'd love Road Rash to come back and show everyone how it's done.
Sort of a swerve, but before there was photoshop, there was Deluxe Paint. Deluxe Paint was, at one time, the industry standard for computer graphics design. A new VR-focused Deluxe Paint would be incredible for productivity.
EA should branch out more and go back to what made them really hot in the early days. nostalgia is in, EA has a lot in the vault. I wish so badly they'd tap into it.
There has never been a bad Strike game, every single game in the series, on every platform, from Genesis to gameboy to playstation to saturn, has been great. A modern strike game with graphics and budget ala Xcom or Halo wars 2 or similar would be incredible.
Mutant League Football should be for football what NBA Jam was for basketball. Yes, I know about NFL Blitz, but midway doesn't exist anymore. Mutant League Football could fill the gap perfectly.
The Pinball Dreams/Illusions/Fantasies series is probably the greatest video pinball series ever made. A little while back, the Crush series of pinball games got a spiritual sequel in the form of Demon's Tilt pinball that was excellent. With Epic games seemingly never making another Epic Pinball, it'd be amazing to see EA revive the Dreams series instead. Put DICE back on the franchise that put them on the map.
It's been weird how the Need for Speed series got all the sequels, while the Road Rash series has withered and died. Like the Strike games, there really are no bad road rash games. There is Road Redemption today, but it misses a lot of what made Road Rash incredible. i'd love Road Rash to come back and show everyone how it's done.
Sort of a swerve, but before there was photoshop, there was Deluxe Paint. Deluxe Paint was, at one time, the industry standard for computer graphics design. A new VR-focused Deluxe Paint would be incredible for productivity.
EA should branch out more and go back to what made them really hot in the early days. nostalgia is in, EA has a lot in the vault. I wish so badly they'd tap into it.
