"Listening to criticism is something they do very well," EA Sports chief and life-long Liverpool fan Peter Moore says of the team behind FIFA, the football game that has gone on to become one of this generation's most highly acclaimed sports game. "I love the fact they have two good things and five bad things. That's always the way that this team, under Kaz [Makita], Gary [Paterson] and [David] Rutter, has done things."
It's to the series' credit that, last October, finding faults with FIFA was a much harder task than ever before; a culmination of the well-documented journey that EA Sports has taken the series from its wilderness years to its position as a critical and commercial phenomenon, FIFA 10 was a superb slice of simulation – and easily the game that's consumed more lunch hours than any other in the IGN UK office.
Handballs can now be toggled on and off. Bad news Thierry.
"I think it went well," sums up Rutter of the FIFA 10 experience. "We set out on a mission with FIFA 09 and FIFA 10 to refine the game in response to feedback and innovate. We did it with FIFA 09 and we did an excellent job with FIFA 10, but there are still some areas that I was less happy with."
And naturally, after an immense amount of time spent pounding the pitch FIFA 10's players also had their gripes, uncovering exploits that went unnoticed in the game's development and were never addressed in its subsequent patches. is, in part, a response to those criticisms, as EA Sports takes its fans and their feedback more seriously than most. "That community is a very small fraction of the amount of people that are playing the game," admits Rutter, "but for me they're the distillation of hardcore FIFA fandom and we'd be completely mad to ignore them."
So FIFA 11 has been shaped by you, the player, as much as it has by the development team at EA Sport's Vancouver headquarters. That time you went fuming from an online defeat, cursing at losing to another cheap chip shot as the keeper made a suicidal run from his line and the defensive four seemed to fleetingly think they were playing in midfield and you ranted and raged with all the ferocity of Ferguson at his most feral? Well, it seems the gods were listening.
Rutter presents the FIFA team's development tracker, a daunting list of forum feedback that's being implemented in the game. It's utterly exhaustive and seemingly endless, and if you've ever had a problem with FIFA or cursed at any of its imperfections it's highly likely you're covered in this list, and the repercussions of the feedback to FIFA 10 range from the subtle – retiming tackle animations or adding different sock lengths – to the positively game changing.
The lighting from 2010 World Cup returns along with some other visual
improvements.
First the big stuff. Last year's FIFA won out over PES in nearly every regard, but there's one aspect in which Konami's series' still trumps EA's. Player likenesses have always come out second best in FIFA, with previous games managing to over-egg the ogrish nature of the football elite. Faces are now more detailed, more authentic and crucially more animated, their eyes darting about the pitch and their expressions reflecting the match's action. "They won't completely be crawling out of the uncanny valley," admits art director Michael Day, "but they're certainly getting there."
It's much more than just a pretty face. The likenesses extend to player's physiques – which have now been remodelled from the ground-up, meaning much more believable player models - and animations that in turn translate into how each player performs on the pitch. It's in this respect in which FIFA 11 has made the biggest leap from its predecessor - dubbed Personality +, it's a feature set that could prove as progressive as the 360 degree dribbling that was introduced last year.
موعد اصدار اللعبة
قد كشف موقع (Amazon) الذي يعتبر الأول في مجال بيع الألعاب بأن لعبة (FIFA 11) سوف تصدر في أول أكتوبر من هذا العام , وسيكون سعر النسخة 70 يورو لأجهزت PS3-XBOX360 أما جهاز PC سيكون أقل بمبلغ 50 يورو فقط.
تأكد شركة EASPORT
ان فيفا 2011 سوف تكون مفاجأة العالم بأسره وسوف تسحق PES2011 تماما
وبناء على تصريحاتهم ان اللعبة لن تتوقع كيف سوف تكون ولا حتى في الخيال
