A Nintendo 64beta version of FIFA 2000
exists though the game was not officially released for this platform.
This version of the FIFA series contained over 40 "classic" teams, so
that gamers could play as retired football legends.
It marked the introduction of Major League Soccer, replacing the fictitious "American" league previously included.
The game features over 40 national sides, fully integrated seasons,
set piece selections, increased physical contact, new facial animations,
shielding ability and tougher tackling.
The game received mixed reviews due to its cartoonish graphic engine
and shallow gameplay, a brand new engine was implemented in an attempt
to give more "emotion" to the 3d player models. The game was generally
considered to be much inferior than its rival, ISS Pro Evolution Soccer.
The opening video for FIFA 2000 features Sol Campbell and playing against a retro side from 1904 - the year of the inauguration of FIFA. The game also included Port Vale, the club supported by Williams, in the "Rest of the World" section.
This title had a new graphics engine which allows each team to have
its own detailed kit, and for some players, their own unique faces.
Doing away with ordinary coloured pennants as club emblems, the license
includes official club emblems for the first time, although certain
leagues, like the Dutch league, are unlicensed. Slightly tweakable
physics made the game a modding favorite for its fan community. The game
also includes the entire Austrian Bundesliga as a playable league for the first time, albeit removing the Portuguese Liga and the Turkish Premier League. A "hack"
feature is included, where the player can press R1 to attempt an
intentional foul, such a high sliding tackle. This title was the first
game of the series with a power bar for shooting.
A Nintendo 64beta version of FIFA 2001 developed by THQ exists, though the game was not
officially released for this platform.
For FIFA Football 2002, power bars for passes were introduced,
and dribbling reduced in order to attain a higher challenge level. The
power bar can also be customised to suit the gamer's preference. The
game also includes club emblems for many more European clubs as well as
for major Dutch clubs such as PSV, Ajax and Feyenoord,
although there was no Dutch league of any kind (they were under the
"Rest of World" header). This game also features, for the first time,
the Swiss Super League, at the cost of excluding the Greek League. A card reward system licensed from Panini
was also introduced where, after winning a particular competition, a
star player card is unlocked. There is also a bonus game with the
nations that had automatically qualified for the 2002 World Cup (France, Japan and South Korea), in which the player tries to improve the FIFA ranking of their chosen team by participating in international friendlies.
FIFA Football 2003 features completely new gameplay from the previous titles. EA revamped the outdated DirectX 7 graphics used in FIFA 2001 and 2002,
and introduced new graphics featuring more detailed stadiums, players,
and kits. Club Championship Mode was introduced with the feature of
playing against 17 of Europe's top clubs in their own stadiums and the
fans singing their unique chants and songs. A TV-style broadcast package
gave highlights at half-time and full-time, as well as comprehensive
analysis. One of the most anticipated new features was EA Sport's
"Freestyle Control" which allows the user to flick the ball on and lay
it off to team mates. Other additions include greater likenesses of
players such as Thierry Henry and Ronaldinho, as well as realistic
player responses. FIFA Football 2003 was also the first game in the
series to use the EA
Trax.
While not adding much to the game engine, the biggest new inclusion in FIFA Football 2004
is secondary divisions, which allow the player to take lower ranked
teams into the top leagues and competitions (a promotion/relegation
system was present since the 2000 edition, but none up until this one
featured second-tier leagues). A new gameplay feature dubbed "off the
ball" was introduced, which is the ability to simultaneously control two
players, in order, for example, to move a second player into the box in
anticipation of a pass. The online mode was touted as the main feature.
Another key feature is "Football Fusion", which allows owners of both FIFA 2004 and Total Club Manager 2004 to play games from TCM in FIFA 2004. This is also the first FIFA game to feature Latin American club teams aside from those of the Brazilian League; there are four from Mexico (América, Toluca, Monterrey and UNAM; a fifth team, Tigres UANL, is present only in the Game Boy Advance version) and two from Argentina (Boca Juniors and River Plate). The title sequence, featuring Ronaldinho, Thierry Henry and Alessandro Del Piero was filmed at St James' Park, the
home ground of Newcastle United.
FIFA Football 2005 was released much earlier than the usual late October date to obtain a head start over Pro Evolution Soccer 4 and avoid clashing with EA Sports' own FIFA Street.
The game features the return of the create-a-player mode, as well as an
improved Career mode. The biggest difference compared to previous
titles in the series is the inclusion of first-touch gameplay which
provides gamers with the ability to perform "real-life" tricks and
passes. It is also the first version to feature the full Mexican League. The game has no opening video, but its soundtrack is headlined by British DJ Paul Oakenfold, who composed the FIFA Theme
especially for the game, using some sounds from the game such as crowd
noises and commentary. This was the last title released for the original
PlayStation in the US. The game also features authentic crowd chants
edited by producer Dan Motut.
FIFA's developers made a complete overhaul of the game engine
for this installment of the game, claiming a dramatic increase in the
control of play, having rewritten more than half the game's code. In
addition to a renovation of the engine, which discards the "off the
ball" system, the developers boasted a significantly more involved
Career mode and the introduction of "team chemistry" which determines
how well team members play together. This installment breaks with the
long tradition of commentary from Match of the Day's John Motson and (more recently) Ally McCoist, who are replaced by ITV's Clive Tyldesley and former Sky Sports pundit Andy Gray, who had already worked in the series as guest commentator.
One of the new features in FIFA 06 was a special "retro" which
features nostalgia of the game. Inside it includes an unlockable
classic biographies section, a memorable moments video compilation which
features ten of the most memorable moments as judged by the FIFA 06
developers, a video compilation with a retrospective view of every game
in the FIFA series and the chance to play the first ever game in the
FIFA series which was titled as "FIFA 94". The game also features for
the first time a Classic XI team consisting of great football legends and a World XI team consisting of current great superstars. Both teams have the CardiffMillennium Stadium as their primary ground. These
clubs must be unlocked in the "Fan Shop".
The main differences from the previous game are a new "Interactive Leagues" function, new stadiums such as the new Wembley Stadium and Emirates Stadium, and the ability to create custom teams and Turkcell Super League returns after seven years of absence from the series. The game's front-end and graphics engine remain largely the same. The Xbox 360
version uses a completely new game engine which was created from
scratch for the system. This Xbox 360 version also features a much
reduced team line-up, completely removing all lower division teams and
focusing on the four main European leagues, plus the Mexican Clausura
and national teams.
FIFA 08
introduced a new game mode called "Be a Pro", in which the player
controls only a single player on the field. This version also introduced
a larger club section including the League of Ireland, and the Hyundai A-League of Australia, for the first time. Unlike FIFA 06 and 07 however, FIFA 08 does not include any memorable moments or season highlights. FIFA 08 does not have a version for the original Xbox, which means that FIFA 07 was the last game of the series to feature on the console. The Xbox 360 has taken over permanently since FIFA 08.
The debut version for the Wii introduced motion controls for shooting, as well as three mini-games
that make use of the Wii Remote
FIFA 09 features a revamped collision system and an option for 10 versus 10 "Be a Pro" online matches, and the new "Adidas
Live Season" feature, which updates all the players' stats in a
particular league based on the player's form in real life. Although the
feature is activated through microtransactions, gamers have access to
one free league of their choice from the moment they activate the
service to the end of the 2008-09 season. Online play has also been
improved in FIFA 09, with a feature called "FIFA 09 Clubs"
allowing players to form or join clubs and field their strongest team
online. The game has met with generally positive reception from
reviewers. Clive Tyldesley and Andy Gray
again provide the commentary in the English version. However in the PS3
and Xbox 360 versions of the game, Tyldesley is replaced by Martin Tyler. For the first time, users can also purchase extra commentator voices in different languages from the PlayStation Store (PlayStation 3) and Xbox Live Marketplace (Xbox 360).[7] Another option for the English language is Tyldesley and Andy Townsend.
Release date: 20 October 2009 (USA), 2 October 2009 (Europe)
FIFA 10 has an extended Manager Mode which includes a new Assistant Manager
that can be used to take care of the team's line-up and to rotate the
squad based on importance of the upcoming match and improved finances.
The "Player Experience and Growth System" has changed. Player growth
will now be determined by in-game performance, demands placed on the
player, and achievements based on the player's particular position. The
games also features 50 stadiums and 31 leagues, among which the Russian Premier League
is introduced to the series (except for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360
versions). It also includes 360 degrees player control instead of the
8-direction control in
previous games.
Release date: 28 September 2010 (USA), 1 October 2010 (Europe)
FIFA 11 was released 28 September 2010 in North America and 1
October 2010 in Europe. It features a new replacement to Manager Mode
called Career Mode; the player is able to play a career as a Manager,
Coach or a new feature as a Player Manager. Other new features include
an improved passing system, improved player likenesses, the ability to
play as a Goalkeeper for the first time, and other various other tweaks
and additions. The English commentary is provided for the third time by Martin Tyler and Andy Gray. Landon Donovan, Kaká and Carlos Vela feature on the cover of the North American version of the game, while Kaká and Wayne Rooney feature on the cover of the UK and Irish version.
Release date: 27 September 2011 (U.S.), 30 September 2011 (Europe)
David Rutter, the line producer for FIFA 12, has promised "a revolutionary year for FIFA... especially in the gameplay department."[8] The first screenshot was revealed on 11 April, featuring Brazilian midfielder Kaká running through the field.[9]FIFA 12 is the first edition of the series to feature Arabic commentary. The Gambrinus Liga and Turkish Süper Lig are removed from the game (though Turkish side Galatasaray S.K. is still featured) and a third Argentine team, Racing Club Avellaneda, is added to the Rest of World bracket. It is possible the game will be available for all consoles, with the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 being the main consoles for the game. In May, EA announced that a Nintendo 3DS
version would be available, including career mode, 11 vs 11, street
mode and Be a Pro, but excluding any online mode. On 27 May, it was
confirmed that FIFA 12 would be released on PlayStation 2. On 7 June, it was confirmed that the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch will also be included and others are to come in the next few months. On 11 July, photos of the Career Mode were released.[10]
During the demo launch on 13 September 2011, both FIFA 12 and Xbox Live
were trending on social networking site Twitter. For the first time in
the series, the game has been officially ported to the Mac OS X operating system by TransGaming Technologies.[11]
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