FIFA 09 gets new online mode News
Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 News by Robert Purchese
EA has revealed a brand new Ultimate Team card-trading mode for FIFA 09.
The service rolls out from 19th March on Xbox 360 and PS3, and will be available to trial using a starter pack for five games before any money needs to change hands.
The exact amount of money, however, is not mentioned. Nor are the prices of extra booster packs. We're after EA for comment, but have heard nothing so far.
FIFA 09 Ultimate Team mode has bronze, silver and gold cards from 30 different areas: players, staff, contracts, formations, tactics, injury healing, team talks, arenas, crowds and plenty more.
The idea is to slowly build the best team around by beating computer opponents offline and human opponents online. There's all sorts of leagues and tournaments to take part in, and, slowly but surely, available resources will rise and soon the top stars will be within reaching distance.
Teams can be customised right down to their badges, and each Ultimate Team player can sculpt a virtual player to join their ranks.
EA reckons this will add "hundreds of additional hours" of gameplay to FIFA 09; matches from which are already played 1.25 million times a day, we're told.
Head over to our FIFA 09 Ultimate Team mode gallery to see what this all looks like.
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Munkey_Boy
10/02/09 @ 17:30
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Link to Gallery doesn't work, but the pics are there if you search. Panini-tastic!
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In all serious guys, I think FIFA 09 is superb. Credit has to go EA for the ay they have taken the franchise. I still enjoy PES.
When you get down to playing a game of football I honestly think PES plays a better game but in terms of an overal package, then FIFA is so far ahead can't even see it. Check out my gamercard for proof I have FIFA - http://live.xbox.com/member/Allan83 I have PES on PS3. |
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Kirly_Wombat
10/02/09 @ 20:24
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Sounds crap to me. EA made a great footy game for a change, now they are rushing to milk it for all its worth.
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Fair play to EA, this will get me playing FIFA again, at least for a while, just to see how it works out. But as for paying for virtual cards in a virtual card deck, I couldn't be less interested if I tried.
ozallez: EA have already made a football manager game, it's called EA FIFA MANAGER (09 being the latest), on the PC. It's a worthy adversy to Sports Interactive's Football Manager, if not quite as good just yet. |
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I'd rather they'd spent their time fixing the bug in Be A Pro mode that causes your team's players to disappear from the matchday squad selection, to be honest.
At the end of my season in Milan, I was playing with two reserve strikers and seven defenders since Ronaldinho, Kaka, Pirlo, Antonini, Ambrosini, Emerson and Gattuso had all inexplicably gone walkabout. |
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