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: #579 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2009-10-02
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Dimensions: 1.00 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

FIFA 10 - better than PES 2010
Graphics:

8/10 - not as good as the console versions but awesome none the less! - my only complaint is the pitch seems to fade when quickly switching from one end to the other, the grass detail is good, the weather is meh.. i hardly notice it sometimes, the player animations are smooth and the close ups are super realistic. The goal celebrations are good and when close up is exactly the same as the console versions.

Sound:

8/10 - crowd sounds are average, commentary is ok... music is obscure! i havtn heard of most of the bands theyve licensed!

Playability:

9/10 - good one touch passing, easy to pick up hard to master, no more simply running through defences like on fifa 09, you need to pass lob chip and duck and dive your way through defences now, its a learning curve from fifa 09.
The online mode is good, you can either compete in online leagues created by other players, by EA or make your own.
or if you want a quick fix you can do a random ranked match, where you play a random chosen player and get stats and ranks from playing them.

my only complaint about the online random rank matches are they can put you up against ANYONE! when i first played i got someone who had won 300 games!! and only lost 3! not really a fair match, hopefully they will fix that!

Ignore the negative comments here, they are mostly from PES 2010 fans, personally i love Fifa 10!! and dont regret buying it!

OVERALL : 8/10

EA Sports screws PC gamers once again
Another year, another kick in the face from EA Sports' president Peter Moore.

EA Sports has decided our PCs are not capable of running the same engine as the consoles and so we get this pathetic watered down version. Don't buy this game, you will be severely disappointed.

Amazon's use of screenshots from the console versions is very dubious indeed.

Warning to all buyers and Amazon
This game is just the same as Fifa 09, with some minor menu tweaks, it is a sub-par product but perhaps more alarmingly is EA and Amazons use of the screenshots and videos that appear on this page, be warned this is not representive of the PC version of this game, it is not Next Gen at all. and i personally think Amazon should remove these images and videos from the PC version page, it is flagrant false advertising, it is false information