Madden NFL 18 on the Frostbite Engine: Reactions

[Birdman18]

I wanted to comment on the blog posted by Chris in the Frostbite transition. Here's a comment from a FIFA Dev on their transition:

"The overarching goal is to leverage the abilities of many of our game teams to produce an engine that delivers world-class games. For FIFA, the move to Frostbite allows us to develop new features that were not supported by the previous engine including the new cinematic story mode in FIFA 17, The Journey."


Now, I'm calling BS that the Ignite engine wouldn't allow them to do a mode like The Journey. Hell, Fight Night had a similar mode and that was on Xbox 360! Maybe it improved the visuals and added that extra polish, but to say Frostbite allows them to create this entire mode, that's just silly.


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[mestevo]

Quote: Originally Posted by Birdman18

I wanted to comment on the blog posted by Chris in the Frostbite transition. Here's a comment from a FIFA Dev on their transition: "The overarching goal is to leverage the abilities of many of our game teams to produce an engine that delivers world-class games. For FIFA, the move to Frostbite allows us to develop new features that were not supported by the previous engine including the new cinematic story mode in FIFA 17, The Journey." Now, I'm calling BS that the Ignite engine wouldn't allow them to do a mode like The Journey. Hell, Fight Night had a similar mode and that was on Xbox 360! Maybe it improved the visuals and added that extra polish, but to say Frostbite allows them to create this entire mode, that's just silly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Are you suggesting Fifa and Fight Night used the same engines? Not sure how one thing proves the other. I suspect there's are a lot of animation support making it easier to create in-engine cinematics we see in other Frostbite titles that allow them to hit their targets for a story mode in FIFA with Frostbite.

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[Birdman18]

No, I'm not saying the engines are the same. The exact opposite actually. The quote I posted eludes to Frostbite is a huge reason The Journey was possible. But Fight Night has a similar mode that was on 360 on an entirely different engine. It's not the engine that creates that kind of stuff. That's just straight up coding and time. The engine helps polish it and gives it life.

It may allow greater physics capabilities and things of that nature, but it's not going to make or break an entire game mode


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