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: #40 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2009-10-02
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .26 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

A game of two halves
After having bought this game I can see the arguments for both sides.

If I were a PS3/Xbox 360 playing 16 year old and I bought this, I would be gutted.

My son - 4 - and I play this. He loves the game and it is one we can play together. The presentation is cartoon like, the graphics basic, etc but this is the Wii. It is a family console and this game is a simplistic version of FIFA 10 a 4-year-old can play. If you want the Full HD, just like playing in real life experience then don't buy this version. But then this is the Wii. If you want to have a laugh with the family, then you won't go far wrong.

So I will give this game too star ratings. The first is as a serious gamer - 0.5 stars. The second as the thirty something father of two boys - 4 stars.

I like it!
As someone who sits in-between the "hardcore" and "casual" categories of gamer, I thought I'd buy this on the strength of the Official Nintendo Magazine review, which gave it 80%-odd.

And do you know what? I think it's a blast.

I've owned the other FIFA games on the Wii, and I'm afraid I don't have the patience, the memory nor the dexterity to get to grips with the control combinations, and don't particularly want to sit through a realistic football simulator for a "real-life experience", as quoted from a PS3 review (I'd watch Sky Sports for that).

This is an arcade-style game - nobody's trying to make out it's anything else.

But having played it for a good 3½ hours last night, I'll be going back to it tonight - because it's fun!

If you want serious football simulators with more options than any person could possibly remember in an entire lifetime, go out and grab a cheap X-Box, or a PS3. If you want a bit of arcade-style fun with your mates over a few cans, I really don't think you can go far wrong with this one. And that's what the Wii is all about.

Good for the young un's
After reading some reviews about Fifa 10, I thought i'd add mine, i can see why some more experience gamers may dismiss this game as simplistic, it is! But my 7 year old son loves it, it has introduced him to basic team changes, tactics etc.The transfer section is also a bit far fetched we've just bought Ronaldo and Cassillas(?) from Real Madrid but again for younger gamers it's kept his interest alive. A great arcade game but no simulation.