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Shadow of The Damned: EA's Alan Wake: Story Details

EA takes a shot at making its own version of Alan Wake. A game featuring a guy alone equipped with noting more than a flash light, and what every he could pick up, didn't sound very interesting at first. But when the game played was gripping, and addictive. Alan Wake's success must have caught the eye of EA because their newest IP shares a lot of similarities.

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Convas4974d ago

From what I saw from the trailer, Shadow of the Damned and Alan Wake are two VERY different games.

DelbertGrady4974d ago

The gameplay looked much more reminiscent of Dead Rising or Resident Evil.

Chubear4974d ago

Thought at first it was something like current version of Eternal Darkness from Gamecube days but after the trailers it looks more like a The Darkness than anything else

Gago4974d ago

grasping for straws to bash a game it seems

BattleAxe4973d ago (Edited 4973d ago )

It looks like EA really is a "me too" company.

Sony: God of War
EA: Dante's Inferno

THQ: UFC
EA: MMA

Activision: Call of Duty
EA: Battlefield/ Medal of Honor

Sony: Gran Turismo
EA: Need for Speed: Shift (Cryterion)

Activision: Guitar Hero
EA: Rock Band

Microsoft: Alan Wake
EA: Shadow of the Damned

Please feel free to add more to this list.

NecrumSlavery4973d ago

MM: LittleBigPlanet
EA: CREATE

rdgneoz34973d ago

@BattleAxe

Somewhat, but not on everything.

NFS and GT are different types of racing games. Ones a racing simulator and the others an arcade racing game.
As for Medal of Honor, the original was out on the PS2 back in 2002, while the Call of Duty was originally out on the PC in 2003. So Activision is more of the "me too" company in that aspect seeing as the first call of duty for the ps2 made in 2004 was made by "a newly formed studio comprised of 27 of the individuals who developed titles in the "Medal of Honor" series" according to metacritic.

Dante, MMA, and Rock Band I agree on, though Rock Band took the formula and added more to it.

Jeff2574973d ago

Actually the original Medal of Honor was on the PS1. Frontline was the first one on the PS2 and is the one being included on the PS3 version of MOH in HD.

BattleAxe4973d ago

@rgdneoz3

Well if you look at the Medal of Honor Reboot, its trying to be MW2....aka: me too

jetlian4973d ago

battlefield,MOH and NFS are all older franchises to COD and GT. THQ isn't the first company to make a MMA game. And left everyone else tell it alan wake is luigis mansion

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Christopher4974d ago

Yeah. No clue how you can relate this to Alan Wake. The graphics look a bit... clunky to me. Gameplay seems to have some nice options (looks like you create spirit guns from mystical items) involved in the game. Will definitely keep my eyes out, but hope it becomes a bit more coherent and less clunky over time.

Biggunz4974d ago

But the HEADLINE GETZ DA HITZ! and that is all that matters anymore.

Troll_Police4974d ago

So was Alan Wake and Heavy Rain but that didn't stop them from comparing the two.

Megaton4974d ago

Yeah, it doesn't look anything like Alan Wake. Pretty terrible comparison from a person who clearly has never touched Alan Wake.

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Game-ur4974d ago

It’s an action horror game, nothing like Alan Wake, more like what RE5 wanted to be.

Anyway the trailer got me exited; it's nice to finally have some good news this day.

Agent-864974d ago

Seems like a good game for including Move support with using the Move as the flashlight and the Navigator Controller for movement.

jay24974d ago

Erm No, this isn't Alan Wake like.

disparage4974d ago

Alan Wake? Did they even watch the video? Lol

dgroundwater4974d ago

Talk about star power. I didn't know Silent Hill's sound director was onboard too!

The clip from 00:40 is looking like it's straight out of Dead Space. I'm sure it will have loads a nonsensical madness to set it apart though.

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PAX East 2024: Suda51 Talks Shadow of the Damned, More

Grasshopper Manufacture's Shadows of the Damned returns this year with a remaster, and Hardcore Gamer got to talk with Suda51 about it, among other things...

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EA Hopes to Use Generative AI to Drive Monetization and Make Development 30% More Efficient

Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.

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thorstein52d ago

I wonder what the next buzz word they'll slap in front of AI to make it sound exciting next? "Generative" as if it's creating its own content. Lol.

Cacabunga52d ago

EA is already dying a painful death..

peppeaccardo51d ago

i have a better idea .. why the whole exec team doesn't get replaced by chat bots ?

just_looken52d ago

Though i agree the ai thing is already in other forms of media there have been ai translations/scripts/voice over and even full ai commercials aired on tv. Ubisoft has created a ai game creator story/vo/music except the building of the game

The new unreal engine has auto terrain creation tools

In the world of greed in which it is winning without any major blow back ai is our future.

everyone want's biden dead on the mic or a criminal instead of a woman and now we are getting ai everything because no one will stop watching/playing ai created media.

GamerRN52d ago

Maybe they should just focus on making good games?

Just a thought...

Kiryu199251d ago

Exactly EA are just pure evil. When they are beating Bank of America to be voted the worst company to work for that’s saying a lot

Good thing I don’t buy their games day one and wait for deep deep sale years after launch (the select few games I am actually interested in)

Gaming is making so much money yet the greed of these companies is never ending

CEO’s and people on board making millions yet cutting jobs to those who are actually making the products

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Knightofelemia52d ago (Edited 52d ago )

EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.

Stuart575652d ago

EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'

I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.

ChasterMies52d ago

I having a feeling that most of the layoffs in the industry are based on the idea that AI will do the same job for less.

DarXyde51d ago

Very likely, yes.

Made worse by the fact that the execs aren't changing their compensations.

My deepest fear at this point is that we are now in the capitalism endgame.

At this point, we really should just burn AI to the ground. Executives cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
How are those people expected to support families if everything gets automated?

Barlos52d ago (Edited 52d ago )

And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.

No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.

CobraKai52d ago

Exactly. If or when games start becoming more AI than people, im done with gaming. AI and companies like EA can suck donkey d***k.

just_looken52d ago

Though i agree remember this is no ps3/360 era were we got up to 3 games in one generation from on developer like gears/halo/bioware/sony/ms

The people today are pro esg/sweet baby for the most part AAA gaming is imploding right now.

We should be stepping back re evaluate everything as a whole this year xmen 97 written/directed by a woman that is nuts and its also being made by a group reshaping bodies to be less sexual like wtf. A dam famous cartoon from the 90's is being rebuilt with millions spent to be worse in everyway.

Gaming/movies/tv shows made today are worse than what we had 7years ago ai won't change this but that ai is also being made by these groups so either way we are screwed.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Eonjay51d ago

Don't be of afraid of women. Sexy characters in games and movies still exist. Got my Stellar Blade on preorder!!! Everything all the time doesn't need to be sexual...that's stupid, childish and dull.

Chocoburger52d ago (Edited 52d ago )

EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.

SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5

Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"

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EA And Sony Layoffs, Entertainment News And More Skewedcast

Gareth, Justin, and JoeyZ look at Layoff news for EA and Sony and reasons behind the downturn in the industry and more.