So yesterday was the big day. I went out to New York City to check EA’s latest and greatest games. I played a lot of stuff out there, except most of it wasn’t for the iPhone. I was rather disappointed with the iPhone presence at this event, and that is why the live blog was quickly removed from the site. We decided it made more sense to just write a hands-on when I got back in to town, and that’s exactly what I’ve done.

So, while I was out there I got to spend a little time playing with the new Tiger Woods game. It’s still relatively early in the development cycle, but from what I played the game looks pretty good. It’s got a very nice 3d art style. The courses and the character models are very solid looking, and they will still be getting another layer of final polish. They decided to go with a swipe control method and not accelerometer, which was a great decision because the game controls very well. As you swipe back, the meter has yardage on it, so you know exactly how far you are going to be hitting the ball. Once you get to the green it has a very nice putting grid so you can see where the green breaks. I found that when putting, the ball would get stuck a lot, but like I said it’s still early and EA said that will be fixed in the final game. Overall, I’m excited to check out Tiger Woods when it launches in the Fall.

Need for Speed was very early in the development cycle, so I can’t say too much about it, but I will say that it looks very good graphically. It has one of the best 3d engines I’ve seen on a iPhone game, and there is still a lot of polish to be added. The control system they went with is a little odd, it’s tilt based, but you don’t control the speed of your car. It’s too early to make any judgments about the game, but I’m confident that it will be a pretty solid NFS game when it finally launched in Fall this year.

That was really all I saw from EA that was iPhone related, well I saw an update to a game, that I’m not aloud to talk about, but once I am, I’ll let you know what that’s all about. If you’d like to know all the stuff I played that’s not iPhone related, check out my Twitter. Keep iGaming!

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