FIFA 10: Ultimate Team in February

By Tom Bramwell Published 2 December, 2009

Cheaper, better, more badass.

EA has announced that a FIFA 10 version of its Ultimate Team downloadable add-on will launch in February 2010 on PS3 and Xbox 360.

Ultimate Team is a card trading game inspired by swapping football stickers in the playground and jumpers for goalposts etc. Last year's effort involved building up a squad by exchanging, buying and selling cards to other players.

You could then take them into tournaments, using various Gameplay Modifier cards to cripple the opposition or advance your own chances.

FIFA 10's equivalent immediately sounds better, not least because it will be cheaper - 400 Microsoft Points (£3.40 / €4.80) on Xbox Live and $4.99 on PlayStation Network - at half the price of last year's effort.

There have also, obviously, been changes, including a redesigned chemistry system. Chemistry - "lackadaisical" was our verdict on this bit last year - determines how players play together based on a variety of factors.

You'll also be able to take your teams into standard tournaments and themed competitions.

Check out our FIFA 09: Ultimate Team review to find out roughly what to expect. We've also got some FIFA 10: Ultimate Team screenshots.

Meanwhile, EA has announced that FIFA 10 itself is the best-selling game in Europe for 2009 so far, and has now sold more than 4.5 million copies worldwide.

Apparently there are an average of three million games played online daily, and over 113 million have been played since the game's launch at the beginning of October - approximately 112.99m of which were contested by either Real Madrid, Barcelona or Manchester "Ryu and Ken" United.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 8 months ago

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  • estoo #1 2 years ago

    Being able to create custom ranked matches where you can set what level of teams are going to play has ended the "Barcelona v Man U" frustrations of previous years thankfully.

    Looking forward to ultimate team, was very addictive last year.

  • Gregolution #2 2 years ago

    Except for the fact that you could just buy cards with money instead of having to earn them. It was great for 2 days, then everyone had 5 star teams. If the remove the ability to buy cards I'll consider the
    Dlc otherwise not a chance

  • Ace_McCloud #3 2 years ago

    Lol at the "ryu and ken" gag.

    *sigh* you know you're a certain level of geek when you find that funny

  • Jay-ITFC #4 2 years ago

    @Gregolution There's more chance of you buying it than there is EA removing the option to buy packs of cards with real money!

  • Zomoniac #5 2 years ago

    Cool, last year's was awesome, I dread to think how many hours I spent on it. Far more than is healthy, anyway. Just hoping they've removed the ridiculously impossible "win all online gold tournaments" achievement.

  • Joco84 #6 2 years ago

    I also have not touched Fifa 10 since MW2 came out, which is weird coz Fifa 09 was the only game I played last year!

    Ultimate Team was not my bag last year, if they can flesh it out a bit more, I might be interested.

  • jambo74 #7 2 years ago

    EA in 'this version is better than lasts' shocker!

  • dnbuk #8 2 years ago

    Couldn't stand this crappy mode. I'd rather they just gave us an online tournament mode without all the card BS.

  • Ikari2001 #9 2 years ago

    aye I would prefer an online tournament mode, even something similar to that in Euro2008. I guess this Ultimate Team things replaces the mid-season FIFA for the time being ...until the WC edition comes out :p

  • butler` #10 2 years ago

    there's a hugely popular online fifa 10 league with cash prizes called stryxa

    google of win

  • MurfPD #11 8 months ago

    I have so much expectation for this game and i hope wouldn't be disappointed but the 2009 was a bit awesome that is why i am a bit excited for this game. The able to do some customization would be nice and the game play and graphic would be one of those i would like to have more + than the 2009. Murfreesboro Pediatric Dentist