FIFA 09 Next Gen Facts & Details + Media

[Omni]

FIFA 09

Step onto the pitch and play professional football your way in FIFA 09. Experience the most authentic football simulation EA SPORTS™ has delivered as you live the fantasy of playing as a professional player and customize the game to suit your style and ability.

Powered by the third generation of the EA SPORTS football engine, FIFA 09 features more than 250 core gameplay additions and enhancements that deliver the most responsive, intelligent and realistic action ever for the series. Enjoy turning defenders with more controlled dribbling and ball control, snapping off precision shots with improved first-time shooting mechanics and firing beautifully timed passes with greater accuracy, placing the ball exactly where you want it. With new player momentum physics the speed and weight of the player determines everything from the distance of a slide tackle and the power of a header to the severity of player collisions and the height of a player’s jump. Plus, players now behave according to their physical attributes with larger, stronger players dominating collisions, battles for control of the ball, and position in challenges for two player headers.

FIFA 09 features new Custom Team Tactics that gives you all the tools to become a first-team coach. For the first time, go inside the game engine to customize the positioning and support play of your teammates and decide exactly how your team will play in any situation. Now you are the player, coach and manager! You have the power to adjust and customise tactical settings so CPU players and your team perform just like the real-world team plays or how you think it should play. Save your tactics and then make strategic decisions to exploit your opponent’s weaknesses, all on-the-fly.

Live the fantasy of a professional football player through the popular feature innovation – Be A Pro – now expanded to include a career mode. In Be A Pro: Seasons you pick or create a professional player and then develop his skills at a single outfield position with the ultimate goal of becoming a national legend.

FIFA 09 delivers a new level of authenticity. The matchday experience is now true-to-life with a referee and assistants. Plus, crowds, stadium atmosphere, and commentary have all been regionalised in exacting detail and 15 new stadiums added.

The full feature set of FIFA 09 is available at FIFA 09. Additional features will be announced in July and at the Leipzig Games Convention in August.

Key Features
• Polished, refined gameplay - Featuring 250 additions and enhancements to core gameplay, including new animation technology that creates more responsive first-time shooting and passing, faster and more controlled dribbling, and improved trapping, and new player momentum physics that delivers realistic player collisions, authentic jostling for the ball, and more variation in tackling.
• Custom Team Tactics —Become a first-team coach with the power to tune and balance 11 tactical sliders for 140 attacking and 40 defending options (more than 50,000 combinations) so CPU players and your team perform just like the real-world team or how you think the real team should play. Save your tactics to make strategic decisions to exploit your opponent’s weaknesses during the game. Plus, share your strategies with friends online*.
• Be A Pro: Seasons — Pick or create a professional player and test your football ability over a four season campaign. Master a single position and develop your skills -- passing, shooting, positioning, marking -- to ultimately become a national legend.
• Improved Goalkeeper Intelligence – Goalkeepers position themselves more intelligently, react to shots more realistically and recover from saves faster.
• Customized Controllers – Create your own bespoke controller configuration, save it and even take it online effortlessly. Assign actions to the buttons exactly how you like them for complete control.

Soundtrack

• Caesar Palace - 1ne
• Chromeo Bonafied - Lovin' (Yuksek Remix)
• CSS - Jager Yoga
• Curumin - Magrela
• Cut Copy - Lights And Music
• Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley - Something For You (One Loaf Of Bread)
• Datarock - True Stories
• DJ Bitman - Me Gustan
• Duffy - Mercy
• Foals - Olympic Airways
• Gonzales - Working Together (Boys Noize Remix)
• Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (Soulwax Remix)
• Jakobinarina - I'm A Villain
• Junkie XL feat. Electrocute - Mad Pursuit
• Jupiter One - Platform Moon
• Kasabian - Fase Fuse
• Ladytron - Runaway
• Lykke Li - I'm Good I'm Gone
• Macaco - Movin'
• MGMT - Kids
• My Federation - What Gods Are These
• Najwajean - Drive Me
• Plastilina Mosh - Let U Know
• Radiopilot - Fahrrad
• Reverend And The Makers - Open Your Window
• Sam Sparro - Black & Gold
• Señor Flavio - Lo Mejor Del Mundo
• Soprano - Victory
• The Airborne Toxic Event - Gasoline
• The Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (The Twelves Remix)
• The Bloody Beetroots - Butter
• The Fratellis - Tell Me A Lie
• The Heavy - That Kind Of Man
• The Kissaway Trail - 61
• The Kooks - Always Where I Need To Be
• The Pinker Tones - The Whistling Song
• The Script - The End Where I Begin
• The Ting Tings - Keep Your Head
• The Veronicas - Untouched
• The Whip - Muzzle #1
• Tom Jones - Feels Like Music (Junkie XL Remix)
• Ungdomskulen - Modern Drummer

The game is due out on 3rd October 2008

PS3 & 360 Screenshots *New!*

FIFA 09 Video *New!*

Adebayor Interview

[redspecial]

fantastic 15 new stadiums new crowd atmosphere revamped commentary refs and lines men yeah,jesus i cant wait to play this new game wonder what the new stadiums are?

[fcp4life]

15 thats it, did they add Estadio Do Dragao?

[dom6918]

Originally Posted by fcp4life

15 thats it, did they add Estadio Do Dragao?

15 is a lot!!! do you realise how long it takes to develop a stadium in FIFA??

The team are sent to each stadium and take endless photos..bring the photos back to EA canada and begin..developing the stadium from the ground up...its a massive job..

remember thats not 15 total..that 15 plus how many we had in Fifa..

I have to applaud EA..the work done on this years fifa is amazing!!
for the first time they are satisfying their fans with the feature list...shame they have sorted out that training mode..only thing missin in MO

[Guess Who]

I'm worried about the fact that they haven't mentioned anything about Manager Mode yet. After the many years of playing FIFA, it is getting way to repetative. They definetly need to spice it up a bit, otherwise looks like FIFA 09 is going to be another online only game.

[magicsven101]

Originally Posted by dom6918

15 is a lot!!! do you realise how long it takes to develop a stadium in FIFA??

The team are sent to each stadium and take endless photos..bring the photos back to EA canada and begin..developing the stadium from the ground up...its a massive job..

remember thats not 15 total..that 15 plus how many we had in Fifa..

They already have/had information to almost every stadium, since most of them have already been in past games...

[fifa07micke]

Originally Posted by EAUK_Omni

FIFA 09
Key Features
• Polished, refined gameplay - Featuring 250 additions and enhancements to core gameplay, including new animation technology that creates more responsive first-time shooting and passing, faster and more controlled dribbling, and improved trapping, and new player momentum physics that delivers realistic player collisions, authentic jostling for the ball, and more variation in tackling.
• Custom Team Tactics —Become a first-team coach with the power to tune and balance 11 tactical sliders for 140 attacking and 40 defending options (more than 50,000 combinations) so CPU players and your team perform just like the real-world team or how you think the real team should play. Save your tactics to make strategic decisions to exploit your opponent’s weaknesses during the game. Plus, share your strategies with friends online*.
• Be A Pro: Seasons — Pick or create a professional player and test your football ability over a four season campaign. Master a single position and develop your skills -- passing, shooting, positioning, marking -- to ultimately become a national legend.
• Improved Goalkeeper Intelligence – Goalkeepers position themselves more intelligently, react to shots more realistically and recover from saves faster.
• Customized Controllers – Create your own bespoke controller configuration, save it and even take it online effortlessly. Assign actions to the buttons exactly how you like them for complete control.

are theese all the features? or is it coming suprises?

[Wepeeler]

I'm going to customize my controller and then never leave my Xbox/TV screen...

Goodbye outside world!

[Rotteh]

"The full feature set of FIFA 09 is available at FIFA 09." I can't see anything there, so why are you writing that?

Can the keepers get a red card and get injured? Is there a manger mode, and can you start with any team you want?

[Wepeeler]

Originally Posted by Rotteh

Is there a manger mode, and can you start with any team you want?

Of course to both questions...

[Footie-Hitman10]

Nice facts cant wait to be honest

[J-Star]

Very nice ea, cant wait

[ed31]

man it would b dissapointing if they add 15 new stadiums but and delete another bunch of stadiums

[JP4000]

Originally Posted by Guess Who

I'm worried about the fact that they haven't mentioned anything about Manager Mode yet. After the many years of playing FIFA, it is getting way to repetative. They definetly need to spice it up a bit, otherwise looks like FIFA 09 is going to be another online only game.

I hope it's not like that, since I barely ever play online.

Manager Mode is where I spend most of my FIFA time, and it is getting very repetitive since very few changes have been made over the past 2-3 years...

[Aaronjay25P]

They need to give more info on manager mode. Konami are basically saying they have the Champions League license.

[BarcelPlayer]

Who cares about Manager Mode...LOL

Still though, ONLINE Better be IMPROVED. Will the club addition from the ps2 version be added unto the ps3/360 versions. Will the servers be updated? Please release more about ONLINE...b/c dats all I CARE About.

P.S. Its sounds like we can FINALLY customize our OWN TACTICS at least and save it to play ONLINE?

[soccerdude101]

Good job EA but will there be Game Face added to FIFA 09 like there is in Tiger Woods PGA Golf?? I think that would be awsome cause then i could finally put myself in the game and have more fun.

[fifa07micke]

Originally Posted by soccerdude101

Good job EA but will there be Game Face added to FIFA 09 like there is in Tiger Woods PGA Golf?? I think that would be awsome cause then i could finally put myself in the game and have more fun.

i like you

[marty1888]

Originally Posted by redspecial

fantastic 15 new stadiums new crowd atmosphere revamped commentary refs and lines men yeah,jesus i cant wait to play this new game wonder what the new stadiums are?

hope one of em is celtic park or at least hampden lol

[Matieo10]

Fantastic. Maybe Celtic Park will finally be added, jus for Zhamilito lolz the guy deserves it.

I really hope more Portuguese stadiums are added, like in 06 & 07 with Dragao, Luz, Alvalade, and Bessa

Great news soo far

[Jennings]

Fantastic sounds really good !!

cant wait, its normally out in October int it?

[hastas]

please fix the assisted system everyone uses and abuses it with lobbed through balls drifting over the last defender effortlessly and the assisted crosses i am the biggest soccer fan and that needs to made more real and harder to do with such ease. i never use assisted so please fix that. also i play online with 2 of my friends i hope they leave that feature in the game otherwise ill be upset.

[kala09]

i agree with hastas, please get rid of the assissted control settings. its so stupid. its too easy to do long balls and goals. it defeats the purpose of playing if your going to get the computer to do half the work for you. i am sick of being beaten by people who simultaneously press x and results in prefect passes rignt to their feet. Then followed up by 30 metre spectaclar goals that are acheived by not even aiming, just pressing circle..please make one control setting level..no assissted.

[Kellog_G8]

Who cares about Manager Mode LOL!

How many international teams will there be?

[r88ney08]

Originally Posted by hastas

please fix the assisted system everyone uses and abuses it with lobbed through balls drifting over the last defender effortlessly and the assisted crosses i am the biggest soccer fan and that needs to made more real and harder to do with such ease. i never use assisted so please fix that. also i play online with 2 of my friends i hope they leave that feature in the game otherwise ill be upset.

That's a bit harsh, how about take it out of online so the little kids can get in the game offline?