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: #13 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: FIFA 10
• Released on: 2009-10-02
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Format: Unknown format
• Original language: English
• 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

Manager mode is unplayable
The gameplay is fine. For me it's either Fifa or nothing. PES seems like too much of a bad arcade game now after playing Fifa.

but, the manager mode on fifa is unplayable and full of around 70 major bugs.

some of the 70 or so bugs in it include-


- all of your teams assists being credited to the goalkeeper
- goals in friendly matches and cup games aren't kept record of at all. only league goals
- They didn't implement seasonal weather changes like they said they did, it just doesn't exist
- The weather system is completley broken. Ive been playing the spanish league, in 42 games I had 1 sunny day, the rest were at night or raining
- the board sack you even if you're first in the league and lose a lowly cup game
- The player form is totally ridiculous. It just looks random and not based on players game performances at all. Players can get a match rating of 10, score a hatrick and his rating can still turn awful for no reason.
- They lied about improving injury realism being improved, every injury is usually 1 week for "Whiplash"
- Only 5 substitutes in friendlies
- You can have someone in your team with an overall form rating of say 85, go to team management and replace someone else in his position, but if you put them back to where they were even right away their form can drop alredy in the matter of 2 seconds
- substituted players don't have their ratings shown at full time
-A stadium will never fill up with people. I can play a Champions League match against a five-star team and all stands will still have large empty sections.
-The board will often tell you to invest in new players, when the transfer window is closed and there's nothing you can do about it.
- you get newsflashes telling you that you've been given the money to sign new players, but in reality you have been told by the board you will get no new money and have to work with what you got
- Friendly games (possibly Community Shield and cup games too) are counted as league games on the Manager History screen. So the recorded points/league position is false.
- players you load out to other clubs can be SOLD by them
- player from your squad randomly dissapear to other clubs

and most of all, everybody, including myself are reporting the game crashing in manager mode after at least 1 season into the game. The game will just freeze every time you try to load it, and nothing to do but start a new manager mode


It feels to me that they didn't put any effort into this. Interactivity has been completly taken away. as far as Im concerned the awful screen you had in fifa 09 where it gave you a scenario (e.g. the press want an interview but youre busy, do you attend?) and you had to pick an option had way more interactivity then fifa 10.

So in summary, the gameplay it's self (in online matches etc) is very good, not without problems, A.I is still not very good, but still very good playability. Manager mode is however completley broken. EA are apparantly trying to release a patch to fix the bugs... but there are seriously about 70, and I'm not sure if they will even fix a quarter of them. If you want a good manager mode don't buy this, at least until it's been made clear the bugs are gone. Overall as a game it is hugely dissapointing as I consider manager mode the biggest part of the game. If it is completley fixed the game would be awarded 5 stars. at the moment it deserves 2 or 3

Great game but unacceptable amount of bugs ruins the flavour
On the pitch the game is great, the only real problem is that keepers come off their line far too easily leading to multiple lobbings. Double tapping triangle to keep them on the line doesn't work as well as it used to. Players lack individuality but that has always been an issue. As i say though, make no mistake, on the pitch it is a great game.

I don't really play online as people are only ever Man utd, Barca, Inter and this time the Uber team is Real. There is a filter this time which helps but most are still the above and reports of quitting and one tactic football are still rife so i stick to offline.


Many would say how it plays on the pitch is all that matters and usually i would agree but the problems off the pitch are so bad that it takes away from the experiece in a way i cannot ignore. Especially in the manager mode which is the core mode. I will not list them as they are too many but just look at the EA and other forums to see all the MM issues. The MM was advertised as being revamped and it has ended up so unfinished and clearly untested (or tested by idiots) that to accuse EA of lying, false advertisment and betrayal of trust is not ott.

The other unfortunate thing here is that EA have a terrible record of patching game modes. EA do patch gameplay issues when pressured but modes including last years MM are usually left alone no matter what


I will state so noone gets me wrong that the actual game of footy it plays is class, it really is, if there were no problems with with the modes then i would give 5 star for the game and 4 star for fun (4 star as the online community is immature and pathetic) but the game is unacceptably untested and unfinished that it falls short of greatness.

I am also disgusted that none of the main reviews mentioned this stuff which it is their duty too, yet another reason not to trust the critics. It was also hyped far too much, bugs or no bugs but that is another story.

A real shame
First things first: FIFA 10 plays a cracking game of footy. When you're on the pitch it's sublime- I haven't played a football game properly since ISS on the SNES and FIFA 10 feels just as fun and accessible whilst providing deeper options for those who choose to use them.

Sadly as others have mentioned, the game is riddled with bugs - ranging from minor graphical glitches which spoil the presentation to crash bugs and major game breaking bugs in tournament or manager modes. I've developed console games professionally and I just can't understand how this game passed through QA.

It's broken - as simple as that.