Another interesting EA Sports story has just come in. The company is allegedly developing a new personalisation system for the next-gen era, which will allow gamers to create their own avatar and then drop it into any EA Sports title. Apparently, players will move this character and his/her stats between games so they could be a +5 handicap in Tiger Woods PGA Tour, a Chelsea striker in FIFA and a quarterback in Madden. Better still, the portable avatar system may feature EyeToy support allowing users to photograph their face and paste it onto the in-game representation.
EA has, of course, been working in this direction for a couple of years, most noticeably with its GameFace technology, found in the latest iterations of Tiger Woods, but this cross-game personalisation feature, reminiscent in some ways of the Xbox 360 Gamer Card, seems to be a much more advanced proposition.
