NowGamer: We speak to Paul Hossack, producer on FIFA Ultimate Team.
Q: How pleased have you been to see Ultimate Team grow in popularity over recent releases to the point of expanding into other EA Sports titles?
A: How about 'very'? The FUT dev team is really proud of what we've been able to do in the last couple of years. It comes down to focusing on what the gamer wants, ensuring there's a great balance so that the game is fun for a long time, and supporting it post-launch with lots of updates and dynamic content. The fact that Madden and NHL both have there own Ultimate Teams is great. We all love the mode and share ideas on how to make it better for each game."
There are many things that bug me about Fifa 12 Ultimate team and some of the things that can be improved are...
EA have brought online over 50 improvements to their sports game, Fifa 11 Ultimate Team, including a Play A Friend Challenge and Friends Leaderboard.
EA Sports today revealed a major new update for FIFA 11 Ultimate Team on PS3 and Xbox 360.
... WC2010 was brilliant, gameplay-wise. It felt fair, responsive, and there were many differentw ays to score (wing-play, through the middle, shots from distance, lobs, combinations, etc etc...)
FIFA11 turned into a midfield tackle-battle, constantly annoying and frustrating, with horrible AI at times, no way to score long-distance screamers anymore, etc etc.
It's still a good game, but I felt it was a step backwards from the gameplay and AI that WC2010 offered.
Fifa 11 has a more simulation feel to it, which in fact makes Fifa World Cup 2010 feels like an arcade mess! And i've gotten alot of screamers in it too but just like in real life they don't score all the time now do they?
I played WC on the highest difficulty level against the CPU all the time, and matches were realistic, varied, and fun. They were challenging, but every game was it's own game and it didn't get boring.
I played FIFA11 on the highest difficulty setting, and it just became a mess on the midfield, you could pretty much never get a player in a decent position to get a shot at goal from distance, and even if you do get into that position, the shot will be shite 9 times out of 10 (which isn't realistic, but is an artificial way of introducing extra difficulty into the game where none is needed...)
I thought WC2010 was as good, if not better, as PES5... but for me, sadly, FIFA11 had some horrible AI, matches became too predictable, there's not much variation in scoring (over the top 1-2, or with a cross), etc etc.
I don't mind challenging games. I do mind frustrating ones.
FIFA UT out before patch to fix buggy game...grrrrreat.