{"id":68196,"date":"2014-08-31T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=68196"},"modified":"2014-08-29T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T08:46:57","slug":"lacrosse-game-creator-wants-to-take-on-eas-fifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/68196-lacrosse-game-creator-wants-to-take-on-eas-fifa","title":{"rendered":"Lacrosse game creator wants to take on EA’s Fifa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlo Sunseri thinks Lacrosse is the “sickest sport ever”, and wants to make a game based on his sporting love that will challenge Fifa, Madden, and other AAA sports titles.<\/p>\n

Sunseri has made previous Lacrosse games for mobile platforms – 10, to be precise – but his sights are now set on a AAA release for the Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.<\/p>\n

In an effort to get the project off the ground,\u00a0Sunseri started a campaign on IndieGoGo<\/a>\u00a0to raise $75,000. After the online fundraising ended, he had raised just over $157,000.<\/p>\n

“The speed, the stick-work, the physicality: lacrosse inspires passion,” said\u00a0Sunseri, who played the sport in high-school and college. During his final year of his tertiary studies,\u00a0Sunseri founded a video game company so he could put\u00a0Lacrosse games on the market.<\/p>\n

“Look at what EA’s Fifa did for the sport of soccer in the U.S. That’s what I want our video games to do for lacrosse,” he said.<\/p>\n

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“Even when we were playing the original PlayStation, I wondered why no one, EA in particular, had ever made a simulation lacrosse video game. It wasn’t until college that I really thought about the possibility of making a video game when Microsoft announced XNA and the Indie Game Channel.”<\/p>\n

In college\u00a0Sunseri approached a UK company for funding and built\u00a0College Lacrosse 2010, and launched it on Xbox Indie Games channel.<\/p>\n

“The response from those fans, starved of a video game representation of their sport, was tremendous. “That’s when I decided I would focus on producing lacrosse games full time,” he said.<\/p>\n

His vision for the Fifa-beating game, titled Lacrosse 15, is to have “a\u00a0multi-year dynasty mode, competitive online multiplayer, real-time RPG levelling, and in-depth character customisations”.<\/p>\n

“I believe that lacrosse could go mainstream like football, baseball, or hockey,” he said.<\/p>\n