With three major football management games each with annual updates, it can be a tough time for developers to distinguish themselves from the pack. EA's FIFA Manager has always taken the accessible route, giving management virgins an easy way to get into the genre. Of course, the official FIFA licence helps to attract casual players, thanks to official imagery, stats and names that are all updated throughout the year.
With this year's iteration, the German developers at Bright Future have also been able to integrate the brand new FIFA 09 engine, assets and spoken commentary from the guys over in Canada.
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Don't miss this exciting new trailer for Fifa 10 from Tokyo Game Show 2009.
FIFA 10 will be the next installment of Electronic Arts' FIFA series of football video games. Developed by EA Canada, it is published by Electronic Arts worldwide under the EA Sports label. It will be released on October 2, 2009 in Europe and October 20, 2009 in North America and Australia. It will be available for Sony's PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. Versions of the game will also be released for the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch, Nintendo DS, Nokia N-Gage, Sony PSP and for mobile phones.
One of the very highly anticipated games of 2009. Although it doesn't have too many new features, the graphics will be outstanding for sure...
The new cricket game - Ashes cricket 09 has a lot more new features. Their first cricket game in 2 years.
Is that all that matters? Graphics? pfft. Theyll be the same graphics as the last 2 versions.
Gameplay is all that matters.
Yeah, what they need to do is add something completely new. This one has manager mode which will probably increase sales by a lot more but EA needs to do more than that. I'm not saying it's a bad game, I've loved all the FIFA games, it's just the repetition.
Just like the EA sport cricket games, these are gonna stop selling eventually unless they come up with something completely, completely new. Small features won't work. I definitely won't be buying FIFA 10 since I already have FIFa 09.
