FIFA Soccer 09

FIFA Soccer 09
From Electronic Arts

Price: $46.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com

35 new or used available from $43.99
Average customer review:

Product Description

Play professional soccer your way in EA SPORTS FIFA Soccer 09. It features new Custom Team Tactics that gives you all the tools to become a first-team coach. Go inside the game engine to customize the positioning and support play of your teammates and decide exactly how your team will play in any situation.

Now you are the player, coach and manager. You have the power to adjust and customize tactical settings so CPU players and your team perform just like the real-world team plays or how you think it should play. Save your tactics and then make strategic decisions to exploit your opponent's weaknesses, all on-the-fly.

FIFA 09 delivers a new level of authenticity. The matchday experience is now true-to-life with a referee and assistants. Plus, crowds, stadium atmosphere, and commentary have all been regionalized in exacting detail with 15 new stadiums added.

Customized Controllers - Create your own bespoke controller configuration, save it and take it online. Assign actions to the buttons exactly how you like them

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #203 in Video Games
* Brand: Electronic Arts
* Model: 15443
* Released on: 2008-10-14
* ESRB Rating: Everyone
* Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
* Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

* 250 additions and enhancements to core gameplay
* Live Season - Dynamic update of player information in-game that mirrors real-life performances. Leagues included - English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, French Ligue 1 Orange, German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A and Mexican Primera Division.Be A Pro - 10 vs 10 Online Team Play
* Custom Team Tactics ?Become a first-team coach with the power to tune and balance 11 tactical sliders for 140 attacking and 40 defending options (more than 50,000 combinations). Save your tactics to make strategic decisions to exploit your opponent's weaknesses during the game. Plus, share your strategies with friends online
* Be A Pro - Seasons ? Pick or create a professional player and test your football ability over a four season campaign
* Improved Goalkeeper Intelligence - Goalkeepers position themselves more intelligently, react to shots more realistically and recover from saves faster

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Product Description
Lace up your cleats, strap on your shin guards and step onto the pitch to play professional soccer your way in FIFA Soccer 09. Fine tuned to take advantage of the advanced processing power of Next-Generation gaming consoles, through FIFA 09 players will experience the most authentic soccer simulation EA Sports has ever delivered on the PlayStation 3 as you live the fantasy of playing as a professional footballer on the rise in the international leagues and customize your game to suit your evolving style and abilities.

The Next Generation of FIFA
Powered by the third generation of the EA Sports' soccer engine, FIFA 09 features more than 250 core gameplay additions and enhancements that deliver the most responsive, intelligent and realistic action ever for the series.

Enjoy turning defenders with more controlled dribbling and ball control, snapping off precision shots with improved first-time shooting mechanics and firing beautifully timed passes with greater accuracy, placing the ball exactly where you want it.

With new player momentum physics the speed and weight of the player determines everything from the distance of a slide tackle and the power of a header to the severity of player collisions and the height of a player's jump.

Plus, players now behave according to their physical attributes with larger, stronger players dominating collisions, battles for control of the ball, and position in challenges for two player headers.

Custom Team Tactics
FIFA Soccer 09 features new Custom Team Tactics that gives you all the tools to become a first-team coach. For the first time, go inside the game engine to customize the positioning and support play of your teammates and decide exactly how your team will play in any situation. Now you are the player, coach and manager.

You have the power to adjust and customize tactical settings so CPU players and your team perform just like the real-world team plays or how you think it should play. Save your tactics and then make strategic decisions to exploit your opponent's weaknesses, all on-the-fly.

Key Game Features:

* Polished, Refined Gameplay - Featuring 250 additions and enhancements to core gameplay, including new animation technology that creates more responsive first-time shooting and passing, faster and more controlled dribbling, and improved trapping, and new player momentum physics that delivers realistic player collisions, authentic jostling for the ball, and more variation in tackling.
* Custom Team Tactics - Become a first-team coach with the power to tune and balance 11 tactical sliders for 140 attacking and 40 defending options (more than 50,000 combinations) so CPU players and your team perform just like the real-world team or how you think the real team should play. Save your tactics to make strategic decisions to exploit your opponent’s weaknesses during the game. Plus, share your strategies with friends online*.
* Be A Pro: Seasons - Pick or create a professional player and test your soccer ability over a four season campaign. Master a single position and develop your skills -- passing, shooting, positioning, marking -- to ultimately become a national legend.
* Be A Pro: 10 vs 10 Online Team Play - Create your own team of up to 10 friends all playing fixed outfield positions to challenge rival teams of up to 10 players. Instead of thinking as an individual player now you have to think and play as a team.
* Improved Goalkeeper Intelligence - Goalkeepers position themselves more intelligently, react to shots more realistically and recover from saves faster.
* Customized Controllers - Create your own bespoke controller configuration, save it and even take it online effortlessly. Assign actions to the buttons exactly how you like them for complete control.
* Multiplayer Options - Local multiplayer supports 2-7 players; PlayStation Network supports 2-20 players.

Career Mode - 'Be A Pro: Seasons'
Live the fantasy of a professional soccer player through the popular feature innovation - 'Be A Pro' - now expanded to include a career mode. 'In Be A Pro: Seasons' you pick or create a professional player and then develop his skills at a single outfield position over a period of time. Your ultimate is to become an international legend, but will you do it with your home club or take your game on to the road? The choice is yours in FIFA Soccer 09.

Lifelike Player Reactions
Soccer matches are filled with a myriad of sounds, gestures and emotions. Until now this firsthand experience has been missing from video game simulations, but FIFA Soccer 09 brings the richness of the world's game to life with its lifelike player reaction system.

Through this, players on your squad react to the events on the pitch, both through gestures and in their native tongues. These can be emotional responses like complaints about a call, or about the way the game is unfolding, but they can also be directional, such as indicating that a player is offsides, calling for a ball/directing where it should be passsed and waving off a defensive assignment.

Not only does this smart cooperative AI help you in the field, but it also injects soul into a game loved by millions around the world and one it is you task to conquer in FIFA 09.

* Broadband connection required for online play via the PlayStation Network (PSN).

Customer Reviews

SP
Have both '08 and this game and am absolutley loving this year's 2009 edition of Fifa Soccer. I recommend this to any fan of the franchise. Pulling off crosses, skill moves, free kicks, and celebrations, it's all in this years game, enjoy!

The Ultimate Soccer Game
This is the best soccer game of the FIFA series. I have been playing Fifa since FIFA 02 and every edition gets better and better. EA is the king of sports games.

This is the only video game for soccer players and soccer fans. Even people who don't follow football can enjoy this game Some of the updates are more realistic movement and tackling, controllable goal celebrations, and 11 player, online multiplayer mode, as well as the live season updates.

The FIFA franchise continues to have licensing from all leagues and realistic looking players.It is a great game, the majority of my PS3 playing time is spent playing this game.

Buy it.

250 Changes, For the Better?
The developers say there are over 250 "improvements" in the latest edition of FIFA, but you won't notice even 5. What you will notice are the glitches that make your gaming almost unbearable at times.

For example during aerial through balls, either attacking or defending, the user-controlled player "crab walks" and loses sight of the ball, thus giving the advantage to the opposite player. Another thing is that the referee decides to give you advantage play when you would rather him not, and not give you the advantage (stopping play) when you are one on one.

Overall the graphics are awesome, as always, there are a bunch of stadiums that are inspired by how soccer is played in different parts of the world. Rain has been added once again, as well as the coolest snow effect you have ever seen, but thanks to a bug manager mode is weatherless and always sunny.

Click here to see other