To answer that question right off the bat, EA will continue their abysmal year after such a weak conference. There was a good number of quality games on display just EA only spent fifteen to twenty minutes of their conference covering them. Right at the beginning, EA blew off the door with an incredible trailer for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare that parodied EA's own Battlefield trailers. Following the trailer, EA gave us an incredible demo for Garden Warfare that easily convinced me of PopCap's newest venture with the Plants vs. Zombies series. There was the announcement of Peggle 2, but nobody seemed to care because what follow was easily the surprise of EA's conference. That surprise was... wait for it... Star Wars Battlefront! Eight years following the release of Battlefront 2, we are finally getting a sequel to one of the best Star Wars games out there. Also the multiplayer shooter specialists at DICE are handling the next Battlefront so it should be good. Disappointing enough after the Battlefront reveal, EA's conference took a turn for the worse. There were still some good stuff in this conference such as Dragon Age Inquisition, Battlefield 4 multiplayer and another reveal that we will get to in a bit, but not enough to keep the absolutely horrible from sucking the life from this conference. The horrible started when EA moved onto Need For Speed. The new Need For Speed Rivals looked interesting, but felt too derivative of the past Criterion Need For Speed games. Then EA decided to make a venture into the realm of movies by showing us a trailer for the Need For Speed movie (we all know how this movie will turn out). EA's time in Hollywood was not the lowest point of the conference that honour goes to EA Sports, which drove this conference straight into the ground and kept on digging deeper. From random rapping to nonsensical celebrity appearances to Dana White repeating the same sentence over and over again, EA made a complete and utter joke of their entire sports division. None of the gameplay shown for these sports games looked anything close to the target video that EA put on a pedestal at the Xbox One reveal. Even with all the crap EA put us through, there was a light shining at the end of the dark tunnel. That light was the long awaited reveal of Mirror's Edge 2. The short trailer was enough to send gamers home happy. Just not enough to save a conference that was already six feet under.
EA's press conference started out great, but it was all downhill after the Battlefront reveal. EA tried to bring the conference back to life multiple times but no avail. There were a few good moments, nothing that could make me personally recommend watching past the first 15 minutes of the conference.
Grade: D+
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