Oh, England. Not even Fabio Capello can make you play well.
Electronic Arts has just announced a new feature for FIFA 09 that, shockingly, actually sounds pretty good. It’s called adidas Live Season (gotta love sponsorship money), and it updates your game’s stats to mirror the real world sporting situation. The system uses a team of worldwide scouts to monitor the performance of every player from the English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Mexican leagues.
Por ejemplo, if Fernando Torres scores a hat-trick against Boro this weekend, that stat would be reflected in the video game. So if he’s having a monster season, his in-game stats will improve and he’ll be more useful to you in the game.
Similarly, if someone is having a shocking season (Sheva or Ronaldinho? Though there’s rumors Sheva could be loaned out to Milan this season, so maybe he’ll be good again), it’ll be reflected in the video games.
My one concern is that this is a premium service. EA says you’ll get a trial edition of Live Season for one league with your XBL or PSN subscription. How much it costs to get the full thing, and whether or not they’ll be discounts available, is unknown.
I haven’t hid my affection for PES over FIFA through the years, but this is the type of thing, coupled with an otherwise improved core, that would make me buy FIFA 09.
Dare I say it: good job EA?
That looks awesome, although I have a Wii and haven’t decided between the 360 / PS3 yet. Too bad it doesn’t mention the SPL for us Rangers supporters either. Meh.
I like PES better in past seasons, but I think FIFA is really starting to trump it.
I don’t see any mention of this feature for FIFA Manager 09 which is where it would be more useful. More specifically, where I would use it.
It is funny how Adidas is reporting on leagues where Nike has most of the apparel and equipment contracts and leaves out MLS where it is providing 100%.
I love this Adidas Live and the weekley update, my only problem is when I play online ranked games or unranked or at lobyes, at the start of the game if I arange the squad I can see that the updated overall to players is as per theyre curent real life performance but during the game if I pause the game and I go to squads every player is in default overal.I don’t understand why? This hapends only on online game modes.Playng ofline games it works and you see a huge diference in players as per the update. Can I get a answer to this? Thank you heaps
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