They were good developers during the early and mid 1990's from what I can remember myself. I probably didn't play much if none of their older-than-'90's games though. I have great memories of the Road Rash and Strike (Jungle Strike and Desert Strike) games, and also some of the early Need for Speed games were good (really liked Hot Pursuit back then). I also remember seeing (not playing) Shock Wave on the 3DO in 1995 or '96 I think, not sure... but I was very impressed, it was at my local games store and was in demonstration (although I didn't know back then that it was developed by EA, only knew about that years later).
They developed a bunch of other nice games that I can't recall by heart, but even within their best years (as a developer) they ended up publishing more games that were significantly better than anything they could develop by themselves... but they did have their "golden days" I guess, but that's like any companies would have had after so many years of operation in the (or any) market.