You’ll get the chance to choose or build a football player, control them for four seasons and grow their abilities using the experience points you gain on the pitch.

We have also expanded our popular Be A Pro feature into a career mode. You can exchange them with your mates via EA Locker, and assign up to 4 of them to your Quick Tactics to execute during offline or online play. This is only some of the depth that we’ve added and we really recommend you experiment with the feature for yourselves to experience all of the nuances you can create. An attacking team is going to be met with a 10 man defense – so they,re going to need to use some pretty inspired quick passing and movement to get near goal. Choosing this setting would mean your defensive line is deep leaving very little space for the attacking team to play in your half of the pitch. The opposite example is low Defensive Mentality.

To counter this, the opposition could play a long, lofted ball over your last man and their striker might have 30 yards of space to run into between the last defender and the goalkeeper. One example is to adjust the Defensive Mentality – in a high setting you – have nine players pushing into your opposition half trying to cut-out play in much the same way as in the team pushing for a win,desperate to get the ball no matter how vulnerable that leaves you defensively. There are roughly 140 attacking and 40 defensive options. Attacking is then broken down further into ‘Build Up’ and ‘Chance Creation’ sliders. There are 11 sliders and options in the game, broken down into ‘Defending’ and ‘Attacking’ sliders. We put in a set of ‘sliders’ so that you can tweak and tune the way your team plays as if you were the first-team coach or manager. In the process of building this feature we figured out that this is something that should also be exposed to the gamers so that they can adjust the way that the team plays to suit their own personal style too. The goal for the feature when we set out to do it was to distinguish the teams in our game by making each of them play differently according to how they play in the real world. He joined EA in August 2007, and is based at EAC in Burnaby, BC, Canada.Ĭan you please tell us some about the key features of upcoming FIFA 09?ĭavid Rutter: One of the new modes that we are all very excited about is what we are calling Custom Team Tactics. David Rutter is the Line Producer on FIFA 09 XBOX 360 and PS3.

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