Alain Tascan - the guy who said Gears needed innovation |
Gamasutra has an in-depth feature on Alain Tascan, the EA Montreal General Manager who is most famous for having said that Gears of War brought "nothing in terms of innovation to the shooter... Like, zero,"Yes, comments about innovation from an executive of EA, a huge company known for annual sports titles. It's very much an understatement to say that some people got a bit miffed about what Tascan said. Judging from the Gamasutra feature, it's probably safe to say that he knows it. Here's Tascan's words:
We are around 300 people now including EA mobile upstairs, and there is space to grow. We are working right now on three things: Army of Two, the new IP which better be good, otherwise people are going to kill me after my comments about Gears of War; SSX on the Wii, which is due in March; and another new IP which IÂ’m not able to talk about.
The feature goes on to emphasize that EA has heard the complaints, and that it has realized that in order to say on top they really have to start betting on original IP. The feature also goes on to explain why the EA original IP move is set in Montreal. Tascan says that there's just this energy about Montreal. There's this air of creativity in the area. Here's how Tascan explains it:
It couldnÂ’t be done in Portland or somewhere like that. But at the same time it couldn't have been done in Dusseldorf or Paris; itÂ’s this understanding of the North American culture, and at the same time this little twist that makes it special. And thatÂ’s why weÂ’re here. ThatÂ’s why Ubisoft are here, A2M are here, all of the animation companies are here; this energy that is understandable at a worldwide level but at the same time with a little twist.
Oh, and speaking of Ubisoft, crazy rabid, acrobatic prince, killer assassin Ubisoft, here's Tascan's take on Ubisoft Montreal vs. EA Montreal:
We're both big companies for different reasons, I guess. You have a family based French company, started by five brothers, against an American company who belongs to nobody. Ubisoft was until recently completely owned by the people who started it, and I think they still own about 90% of it. Compare that to a company that is about 95% public. So while in EA everyone has to report to somebody, at Ubisoft, there is a level where if they want to do it they could do it, and nobody can tell them different, so sometimes theyÂ’ve reacted differently to the market than EA would.
The interesting thing that I notice is that now Ubisoft sounds like itÂ’s trying to be more like EA, to be more aware of the market, while EA is trying to do more original things, like Ubisoft.
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Comments
I will never buy a 360 but from what I've seen Gears of War is a good game. Its only fault is being too short. EA shouldn't be criticizing anyone. You gotta give credit where credit's due.
This guy is so right. That game blows balls!!!!!!! I had to rent it just to see if it was any good but I wasn't impressed. It needs better graphics and the soldiers look too bulky and they make lame one liners. Where's all the cussing like duke nukem
This guy is STUPID! He is just upset that Ubisoft is gaining crazy ground on EA's market, and its games are superior!
GoW isnt nothing new, it takes solid features from shooters and pits it together. The only thing thats offering something new to shooter games is the Wii and its control system.
Actually, if you sit down and play GoW seriously, you see that it is the most innovative shooter since HalfLife2. The cover system is completely unlike any other shooter I've seen. The health system (although Halo inspired) is tightly refined to force tactical gameplay. The multiplayer gameplay works perfectly, condensing rushing and flanking tactics to provide a completely different perspective to the Halo and Quake circle-strafing and bunny hopping tactics. The points GoW isn't innovative on are: A. Plot, it's very lacking in any real substance, but strings the game along OK. B. Weapons, apart from the chainsaw bayonet, the weapons are pretty standard. If EA can top GoW, I will be suitably impressed.
"GoW isnt nothing new, it takes solid features from shooters and pits it together." But it puts it together in a way which does offer gamers a new gaming experience. So in that respect, it IS offering something new. Are you going to criticise Resistance in the same way btw, or is it immune just because it's on the PS3? Besides, given the history of EA's games, not only was Alain a hypocrite for saying such things about GOW, but he hadn't even played the game at the time he made that statement!
back to the wall rainbow six has been havin a similar thing
It takes solid aspects from FPS shooters and makes a solid game.
Gears of War doesn't bring anything new to shooters, but it's still a great game. Just look at God of War on the PS2. It didn't do anything that other hack 'n slash games didn't, but it was stil an amazing game.
Yay! Wii introduces crappy controls to last gen gameplay! How innovative
I've seen it in Perfect Dark Zero. GoW is PD0's cover system wrapped in a brown paper bag
how can someone say that GoW isnt innovational....that rite there deserves a SPECIAL KILL YOSELF.....to me, EA has been a company that made moderate games....not THE best, but o.k ones.....they shouldnt't really talk untill they can make games like EPIC, UBISOFT, and other highly acclaimed companies.....Ea's only known for sport games really. Wat a dissapointment on live 07...
chainsaws on guns, reload timer, stop and pop.
Your a *****ing idiot. You and him are just mad that xbox 360 is winnning this console war , and thats how it is going to stay. Gears of war looks better than any ps3 game out. So you can go play with your six axis you *****ing fanboy
love how every xbox fanboy who sees sum1 that doesnt like gears thinks there a sony fanboy
disturbing scenario, WWI Germany(360) was winning the war against europe cause they were late to react, but when the US came in and joined up with the europeans they kicked Germany's ass by the end of the long war. The Europeans and US are PS3 and WII, if it plays out similar then the 360 will go down hard. Gears of war looks nice because of who designed it and was also released a year after its launch. Give the ps3 a year and then youll see ps3 games that will blow you away as much if not more than gears of war. And since most ps3 games look like most gen 2 360 games time would be against microsoft now.
Hes right Gears does sucks balls!!!!!!
Their games are mostly sub-par. I've always liked Ubisoft better.
Umm no , since ps3 had an extra year in devopmemnt, the games shoud be looking better. But multiplatform games look better on x360, and the exclusives get killed by xbox exclusvies
Bet you haven't even played it. I've played both. GoW is superior.
You will always have your fans for either side, but to say Gears of Wars sucks is just being ignorent. Sony will catch up & there is no denying that. With how established there PS1 & PS2 consoles were, they have developed the userbase that will make there system sell just off of its name. Alot of those systems however , a calculated 40% arcording to a Daily News Article (NYC) that I read, there were re sold on E-bay. Still, there will be people to buy the console for there self reasons. Regardless of how terribly weak the launch lineup was. The difference this time around is that Sony cant simply throw around there money anymore & buy exclusive rights to titles like they once did. Microsoft can pretty much match them or outbid them for any game if needed. With the excepetion of developers in Japan where some simply refuse to work with MS. As for EA. Everyone for that company always talks trash. EA has always been known to do that since the 16 bit days where they dominated everyone else in alot of games. Ever since the 32bit days however, they've been on a downfall like no other. Everyone always 1 ups them in some way, shape of form. 2K literally pisses on them now with there Sports games. EA buying the NFL license was saw by many as admiting that the NFL 2K series was superior in every way. I still play EA games, but since the genesis days, I have lost much respect for them & don't see them as a qulaity software company like I once did.
creating a new era of randomized button style battles then yeah, didn't really do much. However it was so polished and well executed that everything it did right outweighed the extremely little it did wrong. And it probably brought boobies to mainstream games.
Actually they didn't. PS3 devs got dev kits with more time left till launch, than they did with 360. And that does show. PS3s launch titles blow 360's LAUNCH titles away. Games like Perfect Dark Zero only ran on one core (on 360) where all launch PS3 titles are using multiple cores
I have, it's not superior to Resistance. It's not superior to PD0.
despite it's faults gears of war is a special game and is a instant classic no matter what anyone says and it is way more enjoyable (gameplay-wise) than resistance fall of man, both games look good, but I give the edge to resistance but it is nothing xbox can't do, Xbox will always be better than playstation.
oh by the way gears does feel new while resistance just looks knew, (it's not doing anything new) that is the same thing people said about halo and halo sold more than any other shooter just like gears is doing, looks like gears is following in the footsteps of halo after all, EA wish they had a game that would sell 2 million in 2 weeks, all they have is madden that's it, xbox owners are playing an awesome game online and offline while playstation owners are playing an ok game I don't know what the online is like in playstation land so I won't comment on that, and gears of war is not short if you include the other paths in the game.
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