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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Madden is fine, Americans, but there’s one sports game that towers above all others, and that game is FIFA. Once the laughing stock of the football world, it’s now the biggest-selling and in many’s opinion the best sports game on the market. Here’s why.
Madden is… serious, kinda, but EA Sports’ other tentpole sports game, FIFA, is really serious. Take the game’s “World Cup”, which saw an amazing 500,000 gamers enter for $US20,000 cash and a new car.
One thing I’ve picked up over the years is how oblivious most Americans are to the success of EA’s FIFA. It’s not your fault, just, it’s not a game on most people’s radar.
We wish there were more executives like Peter Moore, the kind who wonder where the f…. hell their game is on the end of year “Best Of” lists. As Moore has done to Eurogamer.
If you enjoyed the “Be a Pro” mode last year then you’ll likely welcome the newest addition, Be a Pro: Seasons. In the new mode you can not only create a player, but take them into a four season campaign. Another interesting aspect is that you won’t be tied down to one single character, you can switch players at any time. FIFA 09 ships in the states on October 14th for Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, DS, and PS2.
Most people reading this are Americans, so I’ll take it most are also oblivious as to just how goddamned big the FIFA franchise is outside your borders. Madden is one thing, but boy, you want to see EA go to town promoting a cornerstone franchise, see if you can sit through this. For context, this ran during a commercial break in the Chelsea v Man Utd. game on the weekend, which is one of the biggest games of the year, and it ran for the entire break. Uninterrupted. In terms of sheer marketing brute strength , I’ve never seen anything like it.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced that the brand spankin’ new FIFA 09 demo has just hit the PSN. It’s available right now. What’s more, EA and SCEE trumpet the new season of the FIFA Interactive World Cup (FIWC), the fifth year of world’s only official FIFA global football competition. Game drops in October, full details about this year’s FIWC after the jump.
Here we are, the first trailer for the latest version of EA’s footballing juggernaut, FIFA 09. Hope it’s not based off the in-game models and engine, because if the ball moves around in the air like that while you’re playing, you’ll get a better game of football playing NHL 09.
