How the fifa videp game changed
How Fifa the video game has changed
Fifa 14 has gone on sale today. It probably makes sense. To their old-school critics, who prefer their football to be played with a bit more rough and tumble, Barcelona in reality are not unlike their Fifa counterpart, characterised by lots of short passing and a complete absence of tackling.
Yet EA Sports, who have been putting out Fifa games since 1993, wouldn’t have it any other way. For 20 years they have been trying to recreate what happens on an actual pitch.
Don’t you remember how real footballers in the ‘90s had a yellow star around their feet when they were in possession of the ball? Okay, so perhaps that was one area where the first Fifa game, Fifa International Soccer, didn’t quite match up to the real thing, but in two decades the franchise has gone through more changes than Manchester City have managers.
Fifa has gone beyond the borders of core gaming and is enjoyed by a huge audience,’ said Christopher Dring, associate editor of MCV magazine.
‘Despite its success, it’s not always been the best football game. Some iterations have been downright terrible. But over the last four years that has changed and it has picked up critical plaudits to go along with its big sales numbers. As a result, the game is more popular than it has ever been.’
‘The story of Fifa is astonishing, a real underdog story,’ said Dring, who pointed out that EA wanted a European title to match the success of its John Madden American football game in the US. A small team in Canada was tasked to work with British developers to come up with a ‘soccer’ game to please the top brass in the US.
‘It was almost cancelled several times by an unsure management team in America,’ said Dring. ‘It’s easy to look back on something and chastise a company for not believing in a product that turned out to be one of the most successful games in the world, but everything is clearer in retrospect.’
Fifa still divides gamers – asking someone if they prefer
Fifa 14 has gone on sale today. It probably makes sense. To their old-school critics, who prefer their football to be played with a bit more rough and tumble, Barcelona in reality are not unlike their Fifa counterpart, characterised by lots of short passing and a complete absence of tackling.
Yet EA Sports, who have been putting out Fifa games since 1993, wouldn’t have it any other way. For 20 years they have been trying to recreate what happens on an actual pitch.
Don’t you remember how real footballers in the ‘90s had a yellow star around their feet when they were in possession of the ball? Okay, so perhaps that was one area where the first Fifa game, Fifa International Soccer, didn’t quite match up to the real thing, but in two decades the franchise has gone through more changes than Manchester City have managers.
Fifa has gone beyond the borders of core gaming and is enjoyed by a huge audience,’ said Christopher Dring, associate editor of MCV magazine.
‘Despite its success, it’s not always been the best football game. Some iterations have been downright terrible. But over the last four years that has changed and it has picked up critical plaudits to go along with its big sales numbers. As a result, the game is more popular than it has ever been.’
‘The story of Fifa is astonishing, a real underdog story,’ said Dring, who pointed out that EA wanted a European title to match the success of its John Madden American football game in the US. A small team in Canada was tasked to work with British developers to come up with a ‘soccer’ game to please the top brass in the US.
‘It was almost cancelled several times by an unsure management team in America,’ said Dring. ‘It’s easy to look back on something and chastise a company for not believing in a product that turned out to be one of the most successful games in the world, but everything is clearer in retrospect.’
Fifa still divides gamers – asking someone if they prefer