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EA kicked off with footage of Plants VS Zombies: Garden Warfare. PvZ: GW will come to Xbox One first, and then will eventually be ported to Xbox 360. It will feature a 4-player cooperative play mode with fully 3D environments and graphics. New plants will be featured as well, such as the Sunflower and the Cactus. It will run on the Frostbite 3 engine.

"PEGGLE 2" he screams as he walks off-stage.

More information was given regarding Titanfall. It was announced that Titanfall wouldn't be an Xbox One exclusive, but would instead be coming to Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC.

EA and DICE announced a new Star Wars: Battlefront, shown by a very small trailer.

Need for Speed: Rivals was revealed through a quick cinematic trailer. A new feature called All-Drive was announced, which allows for singeplayer experiences to blend immediately into multiplayer races, making it feel like the player is a real street racer, jumping in and out of races instantaneously. Tablet support was teased for the game.

Dragon Age: Inquisition will launch in Fall 2014 and will run off of Frostbite 3. A cinematic trailer was shown to commemerate the announcement. Some characters from past Dragon Age games will make a return.

A collection of Xbox One and PS4 EA Sports games were showcased, specifically NBA Live '14. A new technique called bounceTec will allow for more realistic experiences in the game. Player stats will be updated within an hour that they happen. A short trailer for NBA Live '14 was then shown. Madden NFL 25 was shown with a whole bunch of sports terms that I don't understand in the slightest. A full gameplay trailer was shown for it as well, showing off how detailed the graphics can get. FIFA 14 was teased as well. The new IGNITE engine provides every game with more realistic AI, interactions, and fan responses. Another new technique called MMAi allows more realistic and authentic animations in another sports game, UFC, coming Spring 2014.

Battlefield 4 was once again brought up, and yet another new technique was mentioned, called Levelution. ...not quite sure what it does. A new mode called Commander Mode was introduced, and I'm not quite sure what that does, either. The BattleLog is a social network integrated into Battlefield 4, and can be accessed from all devices. A live demo including 64 different people playing was shown during this section. This demo showcased how Battlefield 4 will make the game feel like a full-on war zone. Destructible terrain was shown off as well, in that a player shot a C4 at a support beam and took down a level in a building. Tablet functionality was shown off as well.

One last game was shown before EA left the stage, in the form of a gameplay trailer. That game being Mirror's Edge 2, a first-person freerunning game. It's being designed with the Frostbite 3 engine, but was not given a release date or console lineup.

CLOSING COMMENTS: Some of these games actually got me really excited, and I'm glad to see some of these aren't Xbox One exclusive. I'm looking forward to seeing how these games turn out, especially Titanfall and Need for Speed: Rivals.



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