‘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…
WINNERS
David Docker (UK)
Mike Strozek (US)
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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Get Your Free FIFA Football Book
We contacted this book Marketing Executive and he was kind enough to offer us two copies of FIFA Football: The Story Behind The Video Game Sensation. We will offer one copy to our readers and another one to our Twitter followers.
To have the chance to get your free FIFA Football book, you just need to comment in this page. We will announce the winner here, in October 1st, and we will contact him by email. We ship the book for free to anywhere in the world.
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This book should be known as the FIFA Bible
Totally awesome. I have to own this book please
The book is on the table…
I need one..please, just be a winner !!
Thanks
Nice article, sounds like a good book, I’m always interested to read and comment on Fifa and UT 🙂
Cheers.
Aqui no site de vocês eu encontro tudo sobre FUT. Vocês estão de parabéns com o site.Eu quero ganhar este book!!
Estou aqui para concorrer! Vamos lá!
Book looks really good and fun for read! Can’t wait for the book and I hope I will get one 🙂 Cheers!
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I want this book 🙂 It will be so exsiting.
The book looks really interesting.
Opa quero ganhar esse livro e ir retirar em mãos hehehe e conhecer a redação do melhor e maior site de conteúdo FUT do mundo! por que não do mundo!
Bora participar! Saudades da época dos gloriosos H.Van Smeiter e Janco Tianno… Rsrs
FIFAUTEAM é mais que futebol virtual!
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Seems like a really good book
Sweet!!!
Fã de fifa e seguidor do site. Count me in!
Seems like a great read. I never even knew I could read a book about FIFA until now.
Cool, yes please
Fala, Rodrigo, sou grande fã do site! “Tô dentro”!
Looks like a good read
Sounds awesome. Hope I get picked!
Awesome!the bible of FUT
Rodrigo, Silvio e Hugo, Tudo que eu sei sobre FUT e Trade devo a vocês e todos que apoiam o site.
Muito obrigado
Great book about a great game!
it seems good
Mais um item para minha bela coleção de fifa 😀
I want One . Please
Rodrigo, I`m looking forward to it, me & my mates will enjoy it – keep going !
Really nice!
Look like a great read.
can’t wait
Wow looks like a good read. About time a FIFA book came out.