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Steven Spielberg, EA ink three-game next-gen deal
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Posted by Donster on: 2005-10-14 14:25:52 563
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Iconic director will oversee development of a trio of original properties; no word yet on possible film spin-offs.
By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot
In 1995, newly formed film studio DreamWorks SKG announced it was establishing a game division, DreamWorks Interactive. Gamers' hopes everywhere were raised by news, since one of the studio's founders was Steven Spielberg. The thought of a game infused with the director's storytelling ability and cinematic eye was a welcome prospect, and it gave a stamp of artistic legitimacy to an industry that was--and still is--largely misunderstood by mainstream society.
Those aspirations were realized in Medal of Honor, the 1999 PlayStation game that Spielberg provided the original concept for. Released to huge sales and critical acclaim, the DreamWorks Interactive-developed game almost single-handedly established the now-crowded World War II first-person-shooter genre. So successful was the game that its publisher, Electronic Arts, bought DreamWorks Interactive from Spielberg and his partners in 2000. Soon thereafter, the shop was merged with Westwood Studios to form EALA. That internal studio has been developing Medal of Honor games ever since, the latest of which, Medal of Honor: European Assault, was released in July.
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