This year Electronic Arts will launch the first sports videogame that will allow up to twenty people to play a single game of FIFA 09 together. Instead of thinking as an individual player you’ll have to think and play as a team in Be A Pro: 10 vs. 10 Online Team Play.
Last month Electronic Arts unveiled the complete music track listing for FIFA 09, with a soundtrack featuring 42 numbers covering a range of genres, including music from Italian electro-funk artist Caesar Palace, English rock band Kasabian, Norwegian band Datarock, French hip-hop artist Soprano, and even a Tom Jones remix by Junkie XL. That’s just to name but a few!
The adidas Live Season is a premium service for FIFA 09 PS3, Xbox 360 and PC that will dynamically update in-game player form every week, so that player attributes mirror real-world performances. This will run from the launch to the end of the 08/09 season, and is based on how real players actually perform in recent matches.
Great soccer stars, such as Wayne Rooney, have been recreated as special Mii characters for FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play. This involves doing a body motion capture session, where their individual moves and playing style are captured and digitized, to become the movements of their virtual selves in FIFA 09. I think this is really going to make for one amazing playing experience.
Last month Electronic Arts announced that Californian Maurice Edu, of the Scottish team Rangers, will be a FIFA 09 cover athlete for North America. As a cover athlete he will be in the good company of two other footballers playing at international level, Ronaldinho of the Brazil national team, and the goalkeeper of the Mexican national team, Guillermo Ochoa.
