Giants in Game World, Episode 2 ----EA

Electronic Arts, Inc. (EA) is an American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games.
Currently, EA develops and publishes games under several labels including EA Sports titles, Madden NFL, FIFA Soccer, Other EA labels produce established franchises such as Battlefield, Need for Speed, The Sims.
(Part of the following descriptions are from Wikipedia)

"The Sims is a strategic, life simulation video game series  It is one of the most successful video games series of all time. It  is also the best-selling PC franchise in PC history."
The Sims series creates different social and hitorical backgrounds for players to put their virtual citizens (called "Sims") in the created world. Each "Sim" can have their own house, family, job and social activities.
For example, in Sims Medival, you can actually portray the king, the wizard of the kingdom, the blacksmith, the knight commander, the spy, the merchants or the priest.
It is a quite interesting and unique expeirence.


"Mass Effect is a series of science fiction action role-playing third person shooter video games developed by the Canadian company BioWare. "
The whole storyline centered around Commander Shepard, a human command who had been through death and resurrection (in MassEffect 2). After completing a long period of vairies missions, Commander Shepard finally saved all organic creatures from their enemy, the reapers.

Unlike the first two series of games, EA Sports is not a game but a subsidary brand of EA.
EA sports mainly develops real life sports games to players who are sports fans. It released games such as NBA LIVE, FIFA, Madden NFL etc. Among these games, Madden NFL is the best selling one of the EA Sports products.