EA / BioWare Working on Military FPS, New Game

7:30 PM - September 20, 2010 - By Kevin Parrish - Source : Tom's Guide US

BioWare's Montreal team is apparently working on a new action/adventure franchise while EA's Montreal team is working on an unnamed military-based FPS.

Electronic Arts has updated the job listings for both the EA Montreal and BioWare Montreal studios, indicating that a new military-based first-person shooter and a new action-adventure franchise is in the works. The listings follow another job offering placed on LinkedIn this past Friday that seeks a lead network engineer for an "AAA multiplayer action game" for the EA Los Angeles studio.

Originally posted on September 2, the BioWare Montreal team is looking for multiple senior level designers for an unnamed AAA 3rd-person action/adventure franchise. Job requirements include 5+ years experience in 3D level design, proficiency in Autodesk's Maya 3D and 3ds Max, and to have served as level designer for at least one AAA title in the action adventure or shooter genres. Unfortunately, no actual details surrounding the new franchise was revealed.

Although BioWare Montreal and EA Montreal share the same studio space, EA Montreal's project is a separate entity. The team is looking for a lead game designer for an unnamed military-genre first-person shooter. The listing doesn't specify "new IP," so it's assumed that the project could be a new entry into the Army of Two franchise with a possible added FPS perspective. Requirements for this job include 7+ years as a designer, at least 2 years as a lead or senior designer on a AAA first- or 3rd-person action title, and more.

For the lead network engineer position at the EA Los Angeles studio, the job seems console-related, requiring at least 2 titles shipped on the PC or console under the applicant's belt, experience with split-screen multiplayer console (read: console), knowledge of networking systems including DNS, NAT, firewalls and more. The EA LA studio is known for the Medal of Honor series, Command & Conquer series and a few others.

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HavoCnMe 09/21/2010 1:43 AM

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Love IT!

mlopinto2k1 09/21/2010 1:45 AM

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Wow! A military based FPS!!?? No way!

Anonymous 09/21/2010 1:46 AM

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Mass Effect 3

nightcrawl3r 09/21/2010 1:47 AM

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I love Bioware's games, none of them have disappointed me so far and I expect the same from this unknown one.

XD_dued 09/21/2010 2:10 AM

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mlopinto2k1 :
Wow! A military based FPS!!?? No way!

Heh you beat me to it

reprotected 09/21/2010 2:20 AM

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adamboy64 09/21/2010 2:21 AM

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Another FPS, eh?
That's.. that's great.

gncd 09/21/2010 2:34 AM

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mlopinto2k1 :
Wow! A military based FPS!!?? No way!

Exactly what I was thinking. lol

They really should stop with all these military shooters. Too many in the market right now and all of them looks the same.
I love FPS games, but this is just too much.
Looking forward to the next Half Life though. lol

daimerous 09/21/2010 2:55 AM

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What is so cool about all this is that I did the actual move/setup for EA LA. I got to meet a lot of the designers and was in charge of the the entire systems move. They are great people there, so I hope they put out another great game.

mlopinto2k1 09/21/2010 2:55 AM

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GNCD :
Exactly what I was thinking. lolThey really should stop with all these military shooters. Too many in the market right now and all of them looks the same. I love FPS games, but this is just too much.Looking forward to the next Half Life though. lol

Agreed. 100%

Purkinje 09/21/2010 2:55 AM

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Half-Life is perfect, but that's beside the point.
I was really scared from this misleading title, but BioWare working on an action/adventure game sounds great1

Military shooter? If it's on earth, not so good. If it's not on earth, bring it on! No futuristic aliens, though. Halo already did that...

mlopinto2k1 09/21/2010 2:55 AM

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XD_dued :
Heh you beat me to it

Sorry about that! I couldn't resist. LOL

Razor512 09/21/2010 2:58 AM

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nuuuuuuu *cries* does this mean that they will delay the making of mass effect 3?

I am all for them making new games but not at the cost of them delaying the next mass effect game. Those games are just too good to be required to wait such a long time for.

Anonymous 09/21/2010 3:14 AM

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What about after ME3... An MMO using Mass effect world would pretty much like look like an FPS...
I feel I am onto something here

eddieroolz 09/21/2010 3:22 AM

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mlopinto2k1 :
Wow! A military based FPS!!?? No way!

You didn't know? There's a clown-based FPS too, you know!

captorofsin 09/21/2010 3:48 AM

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Sigh, it's like they're trying to brainwash us all with copious amounts of military games. I'll take monsters and aliens any day over another boring military clone.

Purkinje 09/21/2010 3:53 AM

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Agreed, captorofsin. Give us something original!

Gin Fushicho 09/21/2010 3:56 AM

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Can we have a creative FPS? or a something you know... new? What about a high quality sword and shield action game? Something RPG feeling but with high quality animations and movement?

Bah, EA would never do that.

gmarsack 09/21/2010 4:17 AM

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Hey, a military FPS! Finally, a genera that hasn't been done already! Can't wait!

gncd 09/21/2010 4:19 AM

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They should develop a new epic game to replace ME. ME is about to end and I think it's a bad idea to milk it.

An FPS/RPG would be great. It's been done before, but it would be interesting to see how Bioware does it.

nexus9113 09/21/2010 4:35 AM

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OMG its gonna be Medal of Duty: Black Company Delta Hawk Land Warrior1!!11! (With action kung fu grip!!!) I've been waiting for this forever!!

gncd 09/21/2010 4:42 AM

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nexus9113 :
OMG its gonna be Medal of Duty: Black Company Delta Hawk Land Warrior1!!11! (With action kung fu grip!!!) I've been waiting for this forever!!

Dude...I'm buying that game.

togenshi 09/21/2010 4:43 AM

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Isn't this called Battlefield 3?

mrmike_49 09/21/2010 4:51 AM

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Purkinje :
Half-Life is perfect, but that's beside the point.I was really scared from this misleading title, but BioWare working on an action/adventure game sounds great1Military shooter? If it's on earth, not so good. If it's not on earth, bring it on! No futuristic aliens, though. Halo already did that...

agree 200 %

Kelavarus 09/21/2010 7:00 AM

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... As if Halo wasn't first? Not to mention what about Mass Effect, or... Well, even Half Life?

It's not about whether it's been done before, it's about how well you can do it now, and make it your own.

back_by_demand 09/21/2010 10:46 AM

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Counterstrike - Vegas ???
GRAW 3 - Vietnam ???
Battlefield - Allied Assualt ???
Rainbow 6 - 2142 ???

hari_41 09/21/2010 1:19 PM

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gr8..can't wait

g00fysmiley 09/21/2010 3:04 PM

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i hope the market saturates with these modern fps soon. people keep eating these games up when they are all copy paste vertions of the one before them... its like how people buy the new madden every year, i have a friend who loves madden but stays one year behind in the franchise so he can pick up a copy for like 5-10 bucks instead of 50-60 . i liek the halo games but that salso how i do em reach came out and i got odst cause not its 25 bucks

FireBean 09/21/2010 3:19 PM

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How can it be a FPS when it's in 3rd person?

flaminggerbil 09/21/2010 10:03 PM

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Damn it Bioware, you're very good at what you do so stick to it!

We really dont need another military FPS right now.

dextermat 09/21/2010 10:56 PM

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I know ill sound negative but we need innovation:

1-we need a game where you can run, duck, roll, crawl.
2-More interaction with environment, climb in trees,
3-a lot of people sever (100 + like M.A.G on playstation)
just for a start
if not it's just another FPS EPIC FAIL!

(the last one i played that was good is joint operation lol.....)