Gamereactor UK: At Gamescom this year we caught up with EA Sport's Nick Channon, who told us about a number of new features set to appear in the next instalment of the long-running FIFA series.
On the "massive changes" to the series:
"What we've got this year, it's working out really well in the game right now is the ability just to start battling for possession, to try and get the ball. It's creating this great new sort of jostling feel within our game."
"We've completely reworked what we're calling tactical intelligence. So a lot more runs off the ball, you get a lot more time on the ball. You can look up and there's players supporting you from midfield, there's wingers overlapping, you can switch the play, players trying to run in behind, more fluidity, and a lot more options in attack."
On perhaps the biggest change to the FIFA formula to date, First Touch Control:
"In previous FIFA games, at times the touch would feel very perfect and that the ball was very much stuck to your foot. What we've created now is a system that looks at where the pass is coming from, the distance, the speed, it looks at the quality of the player that's receiving the pass, and what it does is create separation from the player and the ball. It's not in any way random, it makes the game more unpredictable, but predictably unpredictable."
And on Kinect and Move functionality:
"With Kinect, obviously it's allowing you to use your voice, which really enhances our experience in terms of you not having to pause the game to make substitutions, you can make tactical changes, just through your voice," and "with the Move it's a great piece of hardware that gives you a slightly different experience... we've created a Move mode, so you can fully play the game with the Move."
Games Asylum: "Outdated football games are a common sight when scouring jumble sales, car boots and charity shops for bargain price video games. Entire shelves filled with decade-old FIFA and PES games spread across a dozen formats. Often they end up in bargain bins, sitting alongside unwanted celebrity fitness DVDs and seemingly random TV show box sets. But here’s the thing. Not all football games gathering dust in the likes of Oxfam are in fact worthless."
Just who is buying FIFA 13 on Wii U? We may never know, but there are more people buying that than there are Bayonetta 2 and Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.
Sonic Boom is riding off the popularity of the TV show; it's a bad game.
And as for FIFA?
Well, guess that goes to show that there's a lot of older gamers on Wii U that wanted FIFA, then; sports games generally do out-sell action games, and Platinum isn't known for large sales in the first place.
I'm not worried for Bayonetta. It'll hit that 1M mark by the middle of next year, surely, at its current pace.
are seriously trying to downplay Bayonetta 2 with sales
In Fails of the Weak #210, Jack and Geoff bring you fails in Sniper Elite 3, FIFA 13, Sportsfriends, Destiny, Halo: Reach, and FIFA 14.
