It's been just under a year, and with FIFA 11 around the corner the fingers of footballers and gamers alike are starting to tingle, just dreaming of netting the last minute goal over their mates on a Friday night. This thread is new features, whats better, and some of my opinions on FIFA 11 so far.
FIFA 11
Release date: 1st October - Europe
Players: 1 - 22(Online required)
Demo: Yes, out on the PSN and XBL Marketplace right now.
Whats New?
Many features are new to this years installment, I will give brief paragraphs, and what you need to know.
Creation Centre
What is it?
Creation Centre is a tool that will provide football fans with the tools to customize content in FIFA 11 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 in new ways. Craft your own football player and create the team of your dreams using a web-based applicationCreate a player by choosing his appearance, accessories and attributes and then create an original team with a distinctive crest and kits, complete with home stadium.
How do I get it?
It can be obtained by pre-ordering from GAME, codes will come ASAP, or will be avaliable to the public on the 28th September.
Custom Audio
What is it?
Custom audio enables football fans to assign chants/songs for every team and league available on FIFA 11, let them be echoed around grounds in the introduction to the match, at half-time, full-time or during the game, also have created chants for your Virtual Pro, and also listen to your music from your hard drive.
How do I get it?
It will be avaliable as soon as FIFA 11 is released in your reigon and you get your paws on it, it will be located under MY FIFA 11 and in the My Music & Chants section of the menu.
Be a Goalkeeper
What is it?
Ever wanted to carry your team to glory? Make that post stamp top corner save infront of your mates to keep the lead in the dieing seconds of a match? It's now possible with Be-a-Goalkeeper, alike Be-a-Pro BAG enables you, the player to take control of your chosen keeper, or make your own and train him and take him into the field of action. Enjoy a 15 year career in career mode, start it straight from kick off, or head out online and engage in a 12 vs 12 match.
What are the buttons?
To play as the goalkeeper, the buttons are: (This is obtained from the arena mode)
You move around have to stick to a gold circle which shows the best position to be in, the ball will follow an orange line, which shows where to dive to stop the goal smashing the net. To spread your keeper and make him big it is RB/R1, X/Square makes your keeper hit the floor or give a more drama. Y/Triangle makes your keeper charge out. In a match you will be able to order your players to shoot, pass or through ball it I believe. With the ball you can, kick it out, throw it out, or drop it with Y/Triangle and start dribbling.
Career Mode
What is it?
Remember Manager Mode? Signing Messi as Arsenal for £50m, playing 2 games in 3 days? Champions League matches in day light? Yeaaah, thats gone now, instead it's now been called the newly revamped Career Mode
Career mode enables you to play as the Manager, Player or a Player/Manager. If you've created a player in the Creation Centre you'll be able to drag them into your team and play with them. The main-menu of CM has a "Premier League esque" about it, the latest news, tables, quotes and latest news.
Whats new?
Realism. That's whats new, in this years CM you can face the hassle of battling off big names offering millions for your starlet, trying to work against the clock negotiating terms with a big-name move. Or just taking Acrrington Stanley to the big time, fighting for the pounds. When you sign a player it will now be a two-stage thing, agreeing a fee with that player, then agreeing personal terms with the player. When you sim a match on the left of the screen you both line-ups including substitutes and on the right you get a little thing telling you with important events from the match and key events from other matches happening at the same time. When you score, your players get cards or they get injured the left side of the screen updates with the appropriate symbol so you can easily see who has done what and who has been subbed.
When it comes to transfer budgets you can have splits, so you can have 80/20 split with £50 Million to spend and £200K wage budget, change the slider to 60/40 and that may be £40 Million to spend and £250K wage budget. Much more realistic, and it doesn't borrow any codes from previous FIFA manager modes, it's completley new and fresh. Your assistant manager will inform you (Alike FM) when players are in form, so you can include them in squad, what players are starting to punch below the bar, or what you've signed could grow into a complete flop or blossom above the rest. There are of course a ton of other features added into this years new CM, but the show must go on.
Gameplay - my opinion
As many of us were waiting as the percentage bar flicked to the right, we were waiting to get our grubby paws on the the first touch of FIFA 11, and what can I say, straight from the start I was amazed. I just felt it was fresh, clean and something new. Straight away getting into the arena it was weird, I weirldy couldn't pull off that easy rainbow flick and finish it with a volley top corner, I ended up with it nearly going out for a throw. The shooting is much better, is it going to dip? Fly into the top corner or smash into the keepers chest, theres a glimpse of unpredictableness with FIFA 11. In the match it was brilliant, the way each players runs, their movements, their actions. The way Iniesta can read Messi's mind as he floats a through ball in, and how Messi gentley caresses it into his metertasles, before whistling past the keepers face into the top corner. The way Drogba will shrug off opponenets, and Pique will do anything to get the ball, wether its bicyle-kicking it away from danger or hooking his legs around the ball to put it anywhere but the back of hit net, the opposition players are more aware of whats happen, and this is why I think it's going to be the best FIFA in years.
FIFA 11
Release date: 1st October - Europe
Players: 1 - 22(Online required)
Demo: Yes, out on the PSN and XBL Marketplace right now.
Whats New?
Many features are new to this years installment, I will give brief paragraphs, and what you need to know.
Creation Centre
What is it?
Creation Centre is a tool that will provide football fans with the tools to customize content in FIFA 11 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 in new ways. Craft your own football player and create the team of your dreams using a web-based applicationCreate a player by choosing his appearance, accessories and attributes and then create an original team with a distinctive crest and kits, complete with home stadium.
How do I get it?
It can be obtained by pre-ordering from GAME, codes will come ASAP, or will be avaliable to the public on the 28th September.
Custom Audio
What is it?
Custom audio enables football fans to assign chants/songs for every team and league available on FIFA 11, let them be echoed around grounds in the introduction to the match, at half-time, full-time or during the game, also have created chants for your Virtual Pro, and also listen to your music from your hard drive.
How do I get it?
It will be avaliable as soon as FIFA 11 is released in your reigon and you get your paws on it, it will be located under MY FIFA 11 and in the My Music & Chants section of the menu.
Be a Goalkeeper
What is it?
Ever wanted to carry your team to glory? Make that post stamp top corner save infront of your mates to keep the lead in the dieing seconds of a match? It's now possible with Be-a-Goalkeeper, alike Be-a-Pro BAG enables you, the player to take control of your chosen keeper, or make your own and train him and take him into the field of action. Enjoy a 15 year career in career mode, start it straight from kick off, or head out online and engage in a 12 vs 12 match.
What are the buttons?
To play as the goalkeeper, the buttons are: (This is obtained from the arena mode)
You move around have to stick to a gold circle which shows the best position to be in, the ball will follow an orange line, which shows where to dive to stop the goal smashing the net. To spread your keeper and make him big it is RB/R1, X/Square makes your keeper hit the floor or give a more drama. Y/Triangle makes your keeper charge out. In a match you will be able to order your players to shoot, pass or through ball it I believe. With the ball you can, kick it out, throw it out, or drop it with Y/Triangle and start dribbling.
Career Mode
What is it?
Remember Manager Mode? Signing Messi as Arsenal for £50m, playing 2 games in 3 days? Champions League matches in day light? Yeaaah, thats gone now, instead it's now been called the newly revamped Career Mode
Career mode enables you to play as the Manager, Player or a Player/Manager. If you've created a player in the Creation Centre you'll be able to drag them into your team and play with them. The main-menu of CM has a "Premier League esque" about it, the latest news, tables, quotes and latest news.
Whats new?
Realism. That's whats new, in this years CM you can face the hassle of battling off big names offering millions for your starlet, trying to work against the clock negotiating terms with a big-name move. Or just taking Acrrington Stanley to the big time, fighting for the pounds. When you sign a player it will now be a two-stage thing, agreeing a fee with that player, then agreeing personal terms with the player. When you sim a match on the left of the screen you both line-ups including substitutes and on the right you get a little thing telling you with important events from the match and key events from other matches happening at the same time. When you score, your players get cards or they get injured the left side of the screen updates with the appropriate symbol so you can easily see who has done what and who has been subbed.
When it comes to transfer budgets you can have splits, so you can have 80/20 split with £50 Million to spend and £200K wage budget, change the slider to 60/40 and that may be £40 Million to spend and £250K wage budget. Much more realistic, and it doesn't borrow any codes from previous FIFA manager modes, it's completley new and fresh. Your assistant manager will inform you (Alike FM) when players are in form, so you can include them in squad, what players are starting to punch below the bar, or what you've signed could grow into a complete flop or blossom above the rest. There are of course a ton of other features added into this years new CM, but the show must go on.
Gameplay - my opinion
As many of us were waiting as the percentage bar flicked to the right, we were waiting to get our grubby paws on the the first touch of FIFA 11, and what can I say, straight from the start I was amazed. I just felt it was fresh, clean and something new. Straight away getting into the arena it was weird, I weirldy couldn't pull off that easy rainbow flick and finish it with a volley top corner, I ended up with it nearly going out for a throw. The shooting is much better, is it going to dip? Fly into the top corner or smash into the keepers chest, theres a glimpse of unpredictableness with FIFA 11. In the match it was brilliant, the way each players runs, their movements, their actions. The way Iniesta can read Messi's mind as he floats a through ball in, and how Messi gentley caresses it into his metertasles, before whistling past the keepers face into the top corner. The way Drogba will shrug off opponenets, and Pique will do anything to get the ball, wether its bicyle-kicking it away from danger or hooking his legs around the ball to put it anywhere but the back of hit net, the opposition players are more aware of whats happen, and this is why I think it's going to be the best FIFA in years.
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