FIFA 10 thread (INFO. and discuss)

[Rock]

FIFA and EA Sports are back with the 2010 edition due to be released on the 3rd of October.

FIFA 10 will be the next installment of EA's FIFA series of football video games. Developed by EA Canada, it is published by Electronic Arts worldwide under the EA Sports label. It will be available for Sony's PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Windows and Xbox 360, Nintendo's Wii and DS, Nokia's N-Gage, Apple's iPhone/iPod Touch, and on mobile phones.

According to Sony, FIFA 10 will be the last FIFA game for the PS2.

Before EA announced it would be developing the game, a producer of FIFA made a forum topic for improvements for FIFA 10. Hundreds and thousands of posts were made in the topic.

EA will release another football game for 2010, the 2010 FIFA World Cup video game, which will feature all of the national teams associated with FIFA.


Manager Mode

The Manager Mode for FIFA 10 has been revamped and has had a multitude of issues and criticisms addressed according to EA Sports; 50 key improvements in total. Among these improvements are:

• The transfer system will be more authentic, as money is not the monopolizing factor in acquiring a player. The acceptance of the offer will be based on factors such as the amount of players in your squad in the same position, and the promise of European competition outside of the domestic league. Furthermore, obtaining a player's services will be more realistically prolonged as the manager must deal with competition for the player by other clubs. Also, now you can submit bids in for several different players and if the club accepts, then you as the manager has the choice of approving the transfer. So for instance if you submited bids for 3 different strikers, and you only needed one, if the clubs of those 3 players accept the offers, you have the choice of choosing which of the players you actually want to have.
  The financial matters in the game will be based less on a team sponsor and primarily on the board of directors, who will provide two overall budgets: Wage budget (the amount of money provided every year for paying players) and Club budget (the money associated with buying and selling players as well as team improvements).

• There will be a Board Difficulty setting, in which players can decide how "generous" the board is financially.

• The Player Experience and Growth System has also dramatically changed. The manual XP growth from FIFA 08 and FIFA 09 have been abolished; player growth will now be determined by in-game performance, demands placed on the player, and achievements based on the player's particular position. There will also be three categories for gaining experience: Mental XP, Physical XP, and Skill XP. Younger players with higher potential will gain XP much faster (especially in Physical XP) and each player will have an individual growth point, which in turn promises more authentic gameplay.
  Results for simulated non-user matches will be more heavily based on team strength and not appear as "random" as has been the case in the past. This will result in more realism and eliminate instances from the previous title where stronger clubs were fighting relegation and clubs with weaker players were winning the league.

• Pre-season friendlies will be introduced to the next-gen versions of the game, which will be organized by the club's assistant manager for a chance to flatten out any wrinkles in a club's lineup before the domestic season begins.

• A Live Season feature has been implemented within Manager Mode. As players' forms rise and fall based on performance (within Manager Mode itself, not real-world events), players will receive a temporarily higher or lower rating along with temporarily higher or lower stats to implicate the authenticity of player form.

• Kit numbers can once again be edited.

• The fatigue of players will be more authentic and realistic, eliminating the problem in which lower-level teams suffer from incredibly low energy levels throughout a series of matches.

• The AI of other teams across the Manager Mode world has been improved significantly. Opposing clubs will rotate players more often based on factors such as fatigue, player form, and even the relative importance of a match (i.e the lineup for a top team in the early rounds of a domestic cup will consist of lower-level and younger players as opposed to a full-strength squad).

• Total Football Experience will be a new feature in which football news around the Manager Mode world will be visible, including player transfers, fixtures and results in foreign leagues.

• A new mode which has been revealed is the "Set-Piece Creator". Using this, runs can be assigned to specific players for different directions. It is not known yet wheather this will be available on online play, as revealed by producer David Rutter.

Soundtrack

The complete soundtrack was announced by EA Sports on July 25 2009. It features 34 songs, 8 less than FIFA 09.

Auletta - "Meine Stadt"
Balkan Beat Box- "Ramallah-Tel Aviv"
BLK JKS - "Lakeside"
Bomba Estéreo - "Fuego"
The BPA feat Ashley Beedle - "Should I stay or should I blow"
Buraka Som Sistema - "Kalemba (Wegue - Wegue)"
CasioKids - "Fot I Hose"
Children Collide - "Skeleton Dance"
Cut Off Your Hands - "Happy As Can Be"
Dananananaykroyd - "Black Wax"
Datarock - "Give It Up"
Fabri Fibra - "Donna Famosa"
Fidel Nadal - "International Love"
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - "La Luz del Ritmo"
Macaco - "Hacen Falta Dos"
Major Lazer - "Hold The Line"
Marcio Local - "Soul Do Samba"
Matt & Kim - "Daylight" (Troublemaker remix feat. De La Soul)
Metric - "Gold Guns Girls"
Mexican Institute of Sound - "Alocatel"
Nneka - "Kangpe"
Passion Pit - "Moth's Wings"
Peter Bjorn and John - "Nothing to Worry About"
Pint Shot Riot - "Not Thinking Straight"
Playing for Change - "War / No More Trouble"
Rocky Dawuni - "Download the Revolution"
Röyksopp - "It's What I Want"
Soshy - "Dorothy"
The Answering Machine - "It's Over! It's Over! It's Over!"
The Enemy - "Be Somebody"
Tommy Sparks - "She's Got Me Dancing"
The Whitest Boy Alive - "1517"
Wyclef Jean - "MVP Kompa"
Zap Mama - "Vibrations"

So what are you most excited about seeing?

[Byron]

Love the songs gonna be great, thanks for info

[Skajo]

SPC is going to be a gimmick methinks - it doesn't look practical enough to be put to actual use. I'm hoping to be proved wrong, however.

I still believe if they take the PS2 version, upgrade the graphics a wee bit and release it on the 360 it would beat every PES ever. It's lazy development to have a next-gen game without current-gen features.

[Simmzay]

Good post, can't wait.

[Jackbee]

looking forward to it

[Rock]

COVERART:



Ronaldinho no longer features on the cover for the first time since FIFA 06.



A nice view of the gameplay


Thanks for good feedback guys!

[Skajo]

That's not the cover.

[Rock]

What? How? Isn't that the UK cover?

[Skajo]

It's not any cover.

[Rock]

okaayyyy. If anyone can provide the "real" one I would be really glad to see it.