EA Brings High Level Physics To Sports Games

By Benjamin Young

At E3 today, there was one huge common theme between the new FIFA, NHL, PGA, and Madden NFL: physics. With most, if not all, of the games mentioned running on Frostbite 3, EA’s trying to further the level of ‘realism’ in the games. Quotations are necessary as some of the realism is visible in scenarios that are not. For example, PGA Tour’s new Fantasy mode, where players golf while trying to evade absurd hazards.

PGA Tour Fantasy Mode
PGA Tour Fantasy Mode – Golf over a crashing battleship!

FIFA, NHL, and Madden are all adding computational physics to all field players, balls, and pucks. Out of all genres of games, sports one of the best shining examples where physics should have been a mandatory implementation years ago! Now players will get to experience more realistic hits and game engines will be more apt to predict outcomes of what had previously been near misses or bizarre success.

Madden 15
New defense mechanics give players more control and insight in Madden NFL 15

Release Info:

  • PGA Tour launches Spring 2015 for Playstation 4 and Xbox One.
  • NHL 15 launches this September on PS4, PS3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360.
  • Madden NFL 15 launches August 26th for North America (29th for EU) on PS4, PS3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360.
  • FIFA 15 as of yet has no official release date nor target platform, though due to it’s success, it’s easy to imagine the game will be available on PS4, PS3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360.