Florida EA studios to create next Tiger Woods title

Posted Apr 11, 2007 at 5:03PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Tags: California, Electronic Arts, Florida, NASCAR, PGA, Tiger Woods
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EA Tiburon to develop Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 - Image 1Originally created in Electronic Arts' California studios, the latest title in the Tiger Woods franchise was moved down south to the Electronic Arts Tiburon studios in Orlando, Florida. Because the studio already sports an impressive list of sports titles in its dev portfolio, EA Tiburon seems to be the significant sports title development studio for Electronic Arts.

With titles such as Madden NFL Football, NASCAR and NCAA Football under its belt, EA Tiburon is confident they could also improve on the golf title to make it even greater. Steve Chiang, general manager at EA Tiburon and Top 7 of 2006's hottest 100 devs, said, "We are working our tails off to bring quality games. We are here because we love games."

It looks like the next title for the franchise could be gearing up for a total next-gen makeover, since the move now delegated the title to a single studio instead of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07's split-studio development scheme. The news report from St. Petersburg Times also said that the next-gen Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 would be released by summer with user content functionality, such as:
  • Gamers would be able to share screenshots and characters with friends and family
  • Gamers can create social networks with fellow gamers
  • Gamers can play as themselves by creating their animated image from a photo
  • Gamers can play with people from across the world, but not in real time


Via St. Petersburg Times

 
 
 

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by Mr.Sony - 2007-04-11 13:27
» First

FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST



The PS3 is the 11th plague of GOD! You will get herpies if you buy that black spawn of Lucifer!

by Unknown Entity - 2007-04-11 13:46
» In reply to above.

While you are entitled to your own opinion, it does sound like you are biased. I don't really hate any consoles. Just preferences. Out of all the next gen consoles I only own the Wii and find the PS3 too expensive too afford right now. However, I will purchase itat some stagebecause, plain and simply, there will be games that I want to play for it. I don't intend on planning to buy an XBox 360 not that I hate Microsoft but because there isn't really any games on it that I want to play. It just doesn't cater to my tastes. But I don't hate it! I know for a fact that the Wii does with its enjoyable and innovativ multiplayer games and what else can you play Zelda and Mario on. I want the PS3 eventually because there will be FF games, Kingdom Heatrs games and at least one more MGS game to play on it as well as Pro Evolution Soccer. I just can't really understand why so many people limit themselves to one console and moan about how great theirs is. I know that not every body might be able to afford all consoles at once but over time surely you could if you were that much into enjoying all of the games you possibly could play.

by celulite - 2007-04-11 13:49
» lazy *****ers

yaaaay just what we need, more *****ing golf games because we are too *****ing lazy to go out and play it for real our *****ing selves.

by ichiro51zr PsPimP - 2007-04-11 14:16
» uh no

summ of us have cancer or diabetes or are agoraphobic and cant go outside.

by ichiro51zr PsPimP - 2007-04-11 14:23
» wow

This title does look great with all the new features. Why is this posted in wii though. I just bought 2k7 in April so if 2k8 cumms in summer that wud be gay.

by ‘Halo 3’ is Dead No Matter What unless Bungie ... - 2007-04-11 14:56
» ‘Halo 3’ is Dead No Matter What unless Bungie ...

* Halo 3 will be trampled and humiliated by Lair (cinema quality motion at 1080p at 60 frames per second), Ratchet & Clank (Walt Disney meets Pixar), Warhawk (next-gen Unreal Tournament 3), Heavenly Word (next-gen Goddess of War 3) and Killzone 2 (next-gen Half-Life 3). All these will be released in Sep. 2007.

* Halo 3 is NOT made from scratch. Halo 3 is an updated version of Halo 2 which was out in 2004 by using Renderware engine (confirmed fact; Bungie chose this method to save huge amount of development time and budget); therefore, Halo 3 is NOT a true next-gen title. Halo 3 can’t even use X360 console’s most power. Renderware is far inferior to other advanced engines such as, Source, Unreal, CryEngine, etc.

* This is why Crapalo (Halo) 3 looks like Halo 2.5 in terms of graphics and gameplay (NO breakable buildings or vegetation, NO deformable objects, NO soft shadows, NO facial-animation, NO depth-of-field, NO motion blur, etc). This new Halo 3 alpha footage looks crappy. There're alpha footages of Gears of War and Resistance available online, unless you are blind, you must realize the fact that alpha builds are 90% same as the final versions.

* Halo 3's world is as shinny (bright, flashy with HDR lighting effects) as the one in Perfect Dark Zero. PDZ was the best looking game when it was released in 2005. PDZ and Kameo were made by Rare which is a subsidiary of Microsoft Game Studios (MGS, not the Metal Gear Solid). MGS also owns FASA (which makes Shadowrun) and Bugie (Halo 3). All these companies share all kinds of technologies (DirectX based) which are used to make X360 games. This is the biggest reason why Shadowcrap, Perfect Dark Crap, Kameo and Halo 3 have extremely similar graphical quality (artistic design).

* Bungie's officially announced in Nov. 2006 that Gears of War has too much superior graphics to Halo 3's final (retail) version (GameSpot’s editor asked “What game has better graphics, GoW or Halo 3?). If you know the definition of ‘paraphrasing’, above statement means “Halo 3 will look very much inferior to GoW in the graphics department.

* Killzone 2 is built from scratch (true next-gen); therefore, KZ2 can use most potential power of PS3 hardware. Guerrilla which is a subsidiary of Sony has 120 employees (programmers and graphics designers). The total budget for KZ2 is $21 million (for your reference, Epic spent $10 m to make Gears of War with 90 devs).

* All Sony’s internal developers and Sony’s very close world class companies share all kinds of technologies which are used for making PS3 games (OpenGL based). These top developers are those companies which make games like: MotorStorm, Metal Gear Solid 4, Warhawk, Ratchet & Clank, Virtua Fighter 5, Resistance, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, White Knight Story, Tekken 6, Heavenly Sword, Gran Turismo 5, Final Fantasy XIII, Lair, Uncharted-Drake's Fortune, Eight Days, Getaway, God of War 3, Jak and Daxter, Heavy Rain, Afrika, Home, LittleBigPlanet , Monster Kingdom: Unknown Realm and of course Killzone 2.

* Polyphony’s Gran Turismo 4 on PS2 is world's most popular racing game in the entire gaming history based on the number of copies sold. GT HD (4.5) demo was released in 2006; all game reviewers were surprised that GT HD was just good (80/100) when they expected that this new GT must get review scores of 98/100 just like all of its predecessors. After this shock, Polyphony officially confirmed GH HD was an upgraded version of PS2's GT 4; that's why it looks just good. Polyphony later announced that they totally scraped the whole GT HD project and working on GT 5 entirely from scratch. Bungie must take a leaf out of Polyphony’s book; Bungie should scrap Halo 3 then make it from scratch then release it in 2010.

by gheddoeninja - 2007-04-11 16:43
» wow.

wow. just wow. um post in the right spot?

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