EA: We Will Topple Call Of Duty Pretty Soon

EA is pretty optimistic about its future games, particularly Battlefield 3 and hopes to topple the Call of Duty series as the market leader.

That’s according to EA CEO John Riccitiello who told Kotaku, “If I had to pick the story I’d like to play out next year is we ship a 90 and they ship an 85,” he said, referring to Metacritic scores. “[Activision has] an awful lot of momentum without heir brand, no doubt. What I’ve witnessed a couple of times in the games industry is the way you unseat a market leader is you make a better game a couple of times in a row. ”

MetaCritic scores are really important to EA. Riccitiello also mentioned that Bad Company 2 matched Black Ops – MetaCritic wise and hopes Battlefield 3 will be the one to unseat Call of Duty:

“I think it’s interesting that [DICE’s] Battlefield Bad Company 2 got the same Metacritic score as [Call of Duty:] Black Ops,” he added. “We knew we were building on [the] Unreal [graphics technology] for Medal of Honor which wasn’t our foot-forward tact.

“We knew that going in. Our next game [Battlefield 3] is being built on the second generation of Frostbite which I think is at least in my opinion is a class act for FPS. I think we’re going to lift the game pretty dramatically in the first-person shooter category.”

But he’s not putting all his eggs in one basket. The EA boss has high expectations for upcoming games like Bulletstorm and Crysis 2:

“I have great expectations to do a lot better in 2011 than in 2010 on the strength of a couple of products like Bulletstorm and Crysis [2], but most importantly for us, Battlefield 3, which I feel incredibly good about.”

via GamesThirst