Product Description

Last year's game topped the league and now the all-new FIFA 10 is looking to defend its title as the number one football action game. More realistic than ever, this latest sequel has greatly improved artificial intelligence, ball physics and graphics.

Brand new this year is the 360 degree dribbling system, giving you the most precise control ever. There are also changes to how the defensive line is formed, as well as improvements to crosses, freekicks and goalkeepers (who can now receive red cards).

Naturally the game retains its hugely successful on and offline multiplayer modes, with new options and better stability for online play. The manager mode has also seen a massive update to make it just as deep and complex as the main game. With all these new features and more EA Sports are betting on FIFA remaining the champions for a long time to come.

Key Features

• Leagues better: The world's most successful football sim gets even better with improvements across the board, including physics, controls and multiplayer options.
• Dynamic dribble: New 360 degree dribbling control system allows for pixel perfect control of the ball at all times
• Football focus: Newly improved artificial intelligence ensures teammates and opponents always move with a purpose and stay focused on the ball at all times
• Beautiful game: Massively improved graphics, including better player likenesses, new crowd animations and new rain and snow effects that really affect the gameplay.
• Master manager: Greatly expanded manager mode, with a revamped experience point system and staff upgrades, a new interface and the chance to edit kit numbers.
  
  

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2009-10-16
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Last year's game topped the league and now the all-new FIFA 10 is looking to defend its title as the number one football action game. More realistic than ever, this latest sequel has greatly improved artificial intelligence, ball physics and graphics.

The best gets better as FIFA raises the bar on football sims

Player likenesses are more realistic than ever

The new dribbling system gives even tighter control

The manager mode has seen significant improvement

Brand new this year is the 360 degree dribbling system, giving you the most precise control ever. There are also changes to how the defensive line is formed, as well as improvements to crosses, freekicks and goalkeepers (who can now receive red cards).

Naturally the game retains its hugely successful on and offline multiplayer modes, with new options and better stability for online play. The manager mode has also seen a massive update to make it just as deep and complex as the main game. With all these new features and more EA Sports are betting on FIFA remaining the champions for a long time to come.

Key Features

• Leagues better: The world's most successful football sim gets even better with improvements across the board, including physics, controls and multiplayer options.
• Dynamic dribble: New 360 degree dribbling control system allows for pixel perfect control of the ball at all times.
• Football focus: Newly improved artificial intelligence ensures teammates and opponents always move with a purpose and stay focused on the ball at all times.
• Beautiful game: Massively improved graphics, including better player likenesses, new crowd animations and new rain and snow effects that really affect the gameplay.
• Master manager: Greatly expanded manager mode, with a revamped experience point system and staff upgrades, a new interface and the chance to edit kit numbers.

About the Developer: EA Canada
EA's largest development studio is responsible for some of the biggest brands for EA Sports, including the FIFA series, NBA Live, NHL and SSX. They have also just taken over the Fight Night franchise. Their offices employ over a thousand staff, with three separate production studios.

Manufacturer's Description
On the heels of winning 25 international gaming awards with FIFA 09, the top-selling football franchise from EA SPORTS is surpassed with FIFA 10. Responding to consumer feedback from more than 275 million online games played, FIFA 10 refines an already potent game engine, focusing on what matter most to fans.

On the pitch, critical gameplay fundamentals have been enhanced to ensure that FIFA 10 mirrors real-world football, providing more sophisticated ball control, and physical interaction. On attack, players now analyze space more effectively, curve their runs in an attempt to stay onside, create passing lanes naturally, and drive for more variety in attacking options. On defense, new concepts like position priority enable defenders to multitask so dangerous spaces left open by teammates out of position are covered. Plus, slide tackle targeting, press marking, and better urgency clearance logic provide new options that make defending a tactical skill in FIFA 10.

Three new innovations change the player control experience in FIFA 10. The first-ever true 360° dribbling system gives players finer control of the ball, enabling them to find spaces between defenders that previously were not possible. Using an all-new animation technology, skilled dribblers now have the ability to face the defender and use highly responsive lateral dribbling to skip past him. An innovative concept called Freedom in Physical Play enables players to perform wider dribble touches and new collision sharing creates a varied, less predictable, and extended fight for possession between the dribbler and a defender.

A deeper iteration of the ever-popular Manager Mode features more than 50 major improvements, including new match realism, ultra-realistic player transfers based on multiple decision points, and true-to-life player growth curves.

New game modes, and innovations to popular features like Be A Pro, will be revealed in the upcoming months.

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Customer Reviews

No different AT ALL to last version, and NOT the game in the Amazon review.
If you are the owner of FIFA's last nintendo DS release, FIFA 9, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.

The Amazon review and description here is for the console versions i.e. Playstation/X-Box etc. The actual DS game is an EXACT replica of the previous game.

What's most upsetting, is that EA haven't even bothered to iron out the obvious problems with it's previous effort. These are:


1) Be A Pro (taking sole control of an individual player) scoring system

- Pressure button / tell a team mate to shoot confusion

In defensive mode, holding the A button puts pressure on the opponent in possesion, and can be used to tackle. However, if possesion switches, and you suddenly find your team are on the ball, the A button you are pressing changes to telling your team mate to have a crack at goal which, if he is in any position other than directly infront of goal (when he would shoot anyway) you get a severe point penalty in your performance score for your stupid suggestion.

So frustrating - you have a good score, playing well, working hard, (a good pass or shot / tackle etc might get you 0.2, 0.5) but get caught out with the button confusion loses you 2 whole points! WHAT?

2) Sliding tackles

- Utterly, completely, impossible. You have to time them to within a mili-pixel, or you will either miss (and concur another bizarely harsh point penalty if you are in Be a Pro mode!) or it will be a foul. And guess what? The refs haven't played FIFA 9/10 on the DS and have no sympathy for this tackle glich - it's a red card 99% of the time. Even the computer can't escape this tragic function.

3) WI-FI play

Besides being the slowest online experience ever (think about having to press pass perhaps a minute before you want to) you can't even save any customisations to your online team - it's set to a default formation and squad selection. Because of the painfully slow wi-fi and strict management time limit, you can never sort your team out in time. Annoyingly, the default isn't even a decent formation or line-up, has players out of position, and top players not even making the bench!


The many gliches spoilt the last versions chances of being a great game - a lot of the gameplay is great fun, and makes for a strong football experience.

To release a new version, pretend on here it's completely different, yet it's identical to it's predeccesor INCLUDING all the gliches, is insulting.

Shame on you EA, and shame on you Amazon for fraudulantly advertising a product as something it isn't.

Oh, and the previous reviewer who gave it 5 stars? He/she hasn't even played the game. Ignore.

Great Game
This game is brilliant, its graphics are great (for DS) the gameplay is fantastic and the player skills are very accurate, you can take part in a variety of tournaments, and when you find it easy the harder settings will give you a very good game.
I would highly recommend this game to anyone who has a DS and is interested in football, as it is one of the best games you can buy dor the DS- and that is saying something.

Good game
the game is well rounded and has some very good modes! the only lacking aspect is the graphics, which is not entirely down to the game but the console.