‘FIFA FOOTBALL: The Story behind the Video Game Sensation‘ is a great book written by Lee Price, who is Gaming Editor at The Sun, about the history of FIFA for the general reader. Do you want to get your free copy? Then, keep reading this page…
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David Docker (UK)
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Ultimate Team History
“As the digitisation of the late Nineties and beyond took hold, football stickers fell by the wayside, seemingly lost to history, part of a bygone era. Then, for the best part of a decade, they were forgotten about, until the release of FIFA 09’s downloadable content, FIFA Ultimate Team – now widely known, simply, as FUT – in March 2009.”
“But Ultimate Team – or, at least, something similar – had been on the minds of those working at EA Sports from almost the beginning of the series, according to Producer Marc Aubanel, who worked on the game from 1993 to 2002. He says: “The whole manager side of football was something we were talking about from day one. Championship Manager was big at the time, so that was on our radar from the early days – this is not only a great arcade experience, there’s a real strategy element too.”
“It was just a matter of time until something like FUT emerged. During my tenure, we were just adding teams; logistically, it was pretty much dealing with the new licenses.”
“It was always like ‘Okay, we’ve got X new teams, leagues, languages’, so we never had the ability to do something like that – we were too busy going to Korea to get their league, etc. But it was inevitable that something like FUT would be a part of FIFA.”
“Further testament to that virtual-social theme is the soaring popularity of Ultimate Team – already FIFA’s most successful mode, and a runaway success – which records some astonishing statistics.”
In the first five years of the new mode – two of which were spent as optional downloads, so not even on the FIFA disc – there were 21.8million unique FUT players. In FIFA 14 alone, there were 725 million Ultimate Team matches played – equating to 264,000 per day, or 11,000 an hour – and almost 1.5billion transfers listed, as the swapaholic gamers got stuck in.”
An extract from FIFA Football: The Story Behind The Video Game Sensation
About the Book
In FIFA Football, author Lee Price explores the history of the series including its gameplay and unique isometric camera angle, the battle with Pro Evolution Soccer for gaming supremacy, and the hi-tech software used to put together FIFA 16 – a release which includes women’s teams for the first time. It’s a series which continues to innovate and exhilarate.
The book includes exclusive contributions from key figures in the FIFA story as well as behind-the-scenes insights from EA’s HQ in Vancouver. It also details the futuristic head-scanning process that captures the players you love, the world of FUT, YouTubers, competitive gaming, soundtracks, FIFA’s spinoffs, and so much more.
This is the definitive story of the FIFA video game.
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