FIFA 11: Career Mode First Impressions

[EA_PWride]

Hi All,

Having managed to get some playing time with Career Mode here in the office I have written up a short introductory article about what I've seen and experienced. Hopefully this will be the first of a couple as I guide you through the world that is Career Mode and those all important decisions; Player, Player-Manager or Manager.

You can read the article here on the FIFA 11 site; http://fifa.easports.com/enGB/news.a...ampaign=FIFA11

[Fodder007]

Sounds great Phil, thanks for the info.

Liking the sound of the day to day calendar, improved injuries and friends leaderboard

[adamneaves]

Brilliant read

Reminds me of LMA manager.. it really does

[Fodder007]

Phil, can you confirm, once and for all, what player-manager is? Is it BAP style game play (controlling 1 player) plus controlling club affairs like Fifa 10 MM? Thanks.

[13Pacheco13]

Yes, we all know that by simming games you get injuries. The problem is that if you actually played the game, there were no long-term injuries...

The callendar thing, seems like a copy/paste from the Master League, which is actually good, because I used to love Master League and I really dislike MM.

[Fodder007]

Also, what does the 9/99 refer to in the bottom-left of the screen shot? thanks.

[adamneaves]

Originally Posted by 13Pacheco13

Yes, we all know that by simming games you get injuries. The problem is that if you actually played the game, there were no long-term injuries...

The callendar thing, seems like a copy/paste from the Master League, which is actually good, because I used to love Master League and I really dislike MM.

He said he also got a Knock to rooney when actually playing the match...

Thats very realistic

[13Pacheco13]

Originally Posted by adamneaves

He said he also got a Knock to rooney when actually playing the match...

Thats very realistic

Yes, but not for how long. That also happens in FIFA10, nothing new here.

The problem in FIFA10 is that long-term injuries only happen when you sim, if you play you only get a couple of days out.

[adamneaves]

Originally Posted by 13Pacheco13

Yes, but not for how long. That also happens in FIFA10, nothing new here.

The problem in FIFA10 is that long-term injuries only happen when you sim, if you play you only get a couple of days out.

Hopefully this is sorted out..

Im really looking forward to Career Mode this year

[Fodder007]

Lets concentrate on the good shall we, no point in commenting on potential bugs with the game when we haven't even played it. Until it's released and we find that there really are problems with it then talking about those things is pointless. New game, new code, new start. Career Mode is looking really good this year, can't wait to get my hands on it

[dave797]

Thanks Phil, great preview

[11fifa]

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[EFC-STE-1878]

Originally Posted by adamneaves

Brilliant read

Reminds me of LMA manager.. it really does

That was my thoughts aswell. I liked that game.

[adamneaves]

Originally Posted by EFC-STE-1878

That was my thoughts aswell. I liked that game.

Yeah me too.. it was the best manager game out there

What reminded me of it was the LMA manager type Transfer

1.Accept Bid
2.Talk terms

Brilliant

[13Pacheco13]

One thing is certain, if MM is not sorted out this year, I'm not buying FIFA.

FIFA 10 plays well enough for me not to need to buy another game just to update teams and jerseys.

[adamneaves]

Originally Posted by 13Pacheco13

One thing is certain, if MM is not sorted out this year, I'm not buying FIFA.

FIFA 10 plays well enough for me not to need to buy another game just to update teams and jerseys.

Thats a bit OTT to be honest

It seems that its good so far so give it a shot at least

[nickcave]

"On the side of injuries they are still there and have been tweaked as well. I got two injuries during the first match I simmed both of which were of different lengths; one 82 days and one 27 days."

As posted elsewhere Phil can you just confirm (I'm sure they are) injuries are sorted for games played not just Simmed, and long term injuries too...

I think a third year would see me and Placebo hunting EA staff down...

[EFC-STE-1878]

Originally Posted by adamneaves

Yeah me too.. it was the best manager game out there

What reminded me of it was the LMA manager type Transfer

1.Accept Bid
2.Talk terms

Brilliant

even the sim part of the game were it tells you important bits. (thats if you never watched the game part in LMA), sounds the same. Just hope he surprises us in his next report about staduim building. That would knock me of my feet. Id love it.

[NGreat]

I love the sound of the new transfers .

[adamneaves]

Originally Posted by EFC-STE-1878

even the sim part of the game were it tells you important bits. (thats if you never watched the game part in LMA), sounds the same. Just hope he surprises us in his next report about staduim building. That would knock me of my feet. Id love it.

haha me too mate,

Although PES 2011 this year has a stadium editor which ive heard is VERY deep indeed..

So in ML imagine playing as Birmingham City in St Andrews created within Option File

[EA_PWride]

Originally Posted by Fodder007

Phil, can you confirm, once and for all, what player-manager is? Is it BAP style game play (controlling 1 player) plus controlling club affairs like Fifa 10 MM? Thanks.

For Player-Manager you control all 11 players when playing however when you first start you get to select whether you want to Create a Player or Create a VP. If you opt to create a VP they can grow and get accomplishments, if you create a Player I don't think they get accomplishments. When playing you don't automatically have the BAP camera but you can change it to this.

So not fully BAP in the classic sense that you only control your VP, but that are elements of it.

[EFC-STE-1878]

Originally Posted by adamneaves

haha me too mate,

Although PES 2011 this year has a stadium editor which ive heard is VERY deep indeed..

So in ML imagine playing as Birmingham City in St Andrews created within Option File

Does it? Never new that. Getting both games anyway Adam. Looking forward to the PES master league online also. Its all sound good for footy fans.

[adamneaves]

Originally Posted by EFC-STE-1878

Does it? Never new that. Getting both games anyway Adam. Looking forward to the PES master league online also. Its all sound good for footy fans.

Indeed it does

[EA_PWride]

Originally Posted by nickcave

"On the side of injuries they are still there and have been tweaked as well. I got two injuries during the first match I simmed both of which were of different lengths; one 82 days and one 27 days."

As posted elsewhere Phil can you just confirm (I'm sure they are) injuries are sorted for games played not just Simmed, and long term injuries too...

I think a third year would see me and Placebo hunting EA staff down...

I played a match earlier in a "Player Career" and got my VP injured for 9 days. Also had some injuries when playing matches as Player-Manager. I'll play some more games when I can and report back further.

[EA_PWride]

Originally Posted by 11fifa

Anyone else having problem opening this particular link?

Sorry but I keep getting below HTTP status 500 on firefox. I tried IE, and it sends me to a page to news section: "ea sports FIFA 11 to arrive on PC this spring"
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If you aren't from the UK you won't be able to see it properly, you will need to select English language / territory on the FIFA 11 site.