Maybe, but IW better learn from mistakes they made with MW2 because COD4 was better.

Did I hear right, that 'IW' are working on MoH?

Activision continues to show EA how to get it done. Activision releases COD every year...LOL...MW2 is killing every game made in sales. Just MW2 DLC has out sold every exclusive on PS3. It helps the game is AWESOME.

What about EA and there sports games that look the same every year....lol NOW, they want to charge you for demo's AND if you set up another account, you get to pay them $15 to play on line with a game you already have. EA is the biggest scam artists out there. That court case is just getting started with Respawn...lol...wouldn't surprise me the judge bans Respawn from making another shooter for 5 years for breach of contract, if they do, Activision will get 50% of the profits...wait and see.

Then I would say "Nay to EA"
But today I say "Hooray for EA!"

Don't forget music games, Rock Band is out every year, almost as crap as GH... Need For Speed, which went downhill after Underground and never recovered. There is also The Sims, before Sims 3 they had like 2 or 3 expansions per year, we'll have to wait and see if Sims 3 will be less of a ripoff... What about Move tie-ins? Harry Potter? LOTR, anyone? I think you got my point, they still suck on much beyond shooters and sports.

But despite their overused franchises, the rest has been good, specially for their EA Partners thing, many games that they publish but isn't produced by an EA studio are great games. Even some old EA stuff that IS oversused is ok, as C&C.

I would also consider Burnout Paradise, Dirt, Grid and Brutal Legend good games. Valve games too, although they don't shine on console (EA's job, if anything, were to point Valve in the right direction in those platforms) as they do in PC (Valve's field of expertise).

But if there is the bad and the good, they sure have the ugly too. They experiment on somethings that you catch yourself trying to figure out who was the mental that decided to give a green light to some games... Spore, The Saboteur, many Wii shovelware... those games simply didn't worked as everyone expected.

And overused or not... I wouldn't mind a Road Rash 4 (or 5, I don't know if people considered Jail Break as 4th or not, although 3D was actually the 4th game anyway).

bioware had no experience making rpgs before they started. now look at them, plus bulletstrom isnt a generic shooter and bf adds to the genre rather than copying it, it adds the whole tactical side of squads, destruction 2.0, good vehicle gameplay. moh and mw2 i feel are going to be identical

Umm...you forget that Blizzard didn't exactly MAKE a MMO, either, before WoW! And I'm not certain, but isn't that SW game a sequel to another one?

@bishop-br: Criterion is making the new NFS (which puts that onto my radar), RB3 is going to be using a new note-chart system that could rejuvenate the rhythm game genre (and unlike GH, they've actually been trying out DIFFERENT things instead of doing the same thing every new game). And don't forget the EA Home space, which kind of set a lot of good things about Home into motion that we wouldn't be saying today if it wasn't for it. You're actually judging the games that EA had coming out before they pledged to turn their image around (and I would say they have done a damn good job at doing so).

To me, Dead Space and Mirror's Edge didn't only raise the bar and took everyone by surprise (especially Dead Space, which went under a LOT of radars), but also, in ME's case, took a chance at having a system whose luck wasn't exactly the best at the time be the lead development console. In short, if Sony is to end up taking over overall sales and leave the 360 in the dust, they will have EA to thank since it seems that EA has taken Sony's side in this console war, and has benefited from it immensely.

It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way