EA signs Wheel of Time games News
MMO News by Oli Welsh
EA Partners has signed on to distribute the Wheel of Time games based on the popular Robert Jordan fantasy novels.
Last year it emerged that Red Eagle Entertainment would be adapting Jordan's universe into a series of films and games, including an MMO.
EA Partners, which works with the likes of Valve, id and MTV/Harmonix, will distribute the MMO alongside a line of standalone games on all major platforms - helping them get "a blockbuster launch on the global stage", according to EA's David DeMartini.
Red Eagle is setting up its own game production facility to make the games in-house. It's an ambitious project for a newcomer to game development, but EA clearly has faith. Do you?
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Bigglesworth
16/01/09 @ 10:56
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Great news that this series is getting some exposure beyond the novels.
Hopefully Red Eagle will understand that you can't make a game these days with a bunch of fresh-faced graduates, and hire some industry experience. |
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Doctor_What
16/01/09 @ 11:17
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They're tedious and rambling plots with very little sense of purpose, even more so than Tolkien. I'm not confident about them doing a mainstream LotR smash-hit like Tolk's films/games.
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Bigglesworth
16/01/09 @ 12:25
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Charges of rambling plot and appalling book 10 can't be denied. Still an excellent fantasy series though, and Knife of Dreams was a return to form that bodes well for the finale.
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Published by EA...We know by now what that means(just check the autumn and winter line-up).
Add to that, the fact that the books are going south after volume 5. Most likely, the games will be based very loosely on the books(like the LOTR games developped and published by EA). Bottom line: no, I don't have any faith in anything that goes with EA (yes, I'm a bitter former customer). |
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Bigglesworth: Knife of Dreams boded well for the finale until he died... let's hope the new author (whose name temporarily escapes me) hired to complete the book does a good job.
Although he did say he'd make sure it includes enough information for us to finally figure out who killed Asmodean, something RJ always claimed was obvious and could never understand why we didn't figure it out the moment it happened. Anyway, it could be a good game setting, but it could also be utterly rubbish. Past experience suggests the latter is more likely... it might be difficult to deal with player characters who can channel. The One Power is very freeform, and I'm not sure how well it'd model as a series of specified abilities. |
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Bigglesworth
16/01/09 @ 13:34
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@Mawich
Yeah Jordan's death has kinda put a crimp in book 12, still, new guy Brandon Sanderson seems promising. Must admit I haven't read his books yet though. I don't think the magic system should cause a problem per se, yes its freeform, but so are most such systems. Star Wars games have implemented the Force in limited but sucessful ways; I don't recall much griping about the rendition of Harry Potter's pullsomethingoutofyourarsicus manner of magic, etc, etc. Actually Channeling is much more defined in its source material than many other systems, which may or may not be a good thing. It just depends how it gets implemented. |
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mumtoucher
16/01/09 @ 13:35
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I'm a huge fan of the series, an MMO could be interesting, but lets be honest its gonna be crap, so i suggest a 10 player online streets of rage style game, where you fight hordes of shadowspawn featuring Lan, Rand, Mat, Perrin and all the other badasses etc etc
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TriggerHippie
16/01/09 @ 17:09
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The Warlock of Firetop mountain had more direction than this rambling bastard of a series. I guess it might be almost bearable now that the books are in print, but waiting for book 6 to come out I just gave up and moved on.
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BlackKraken
18/01/09 @ 23:32
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how about an mmo where u go back in time and destroy ultima online and everquest so mmos never happened?
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