FIFA 13 Thread

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Well, this year’s game addresses five separate areas, all of which represent gameplay tweaks designed to capture the unpredictability of the sport. They include alterations to first touch control, player impact, dribbling, free kicks and attacking AI. Each sounds perfectly reasonable on paper.

Let’s start with first touch controls. In previous versions of the game the ball would stick to your player’s toe like a teenager’s spunky sock, regardless of the quality of the player. Not any longer. Now the quality of your first touch will be dictated by the speed and power of the pass, as well as the momentum, positioning and skill of the receiving player.

The point of this is to encourage situations where a poor first touch can lead to different, organic feeling opportunities. You may not bring it under control perfectly first time, but maybe that touch will knock it past the defender. Or maybe you’ll just give it away under pressure. Either way, the intended result is realism.

Player collisions are also set to be tinkered with. The Impact Engine may have been one of FIFA 12’s most significant innovations, but it also threw up a few wonky and hilarious situations. With a few changes to the system, FIFA 13 is hoping to eradicate the impossible arm positions you occasionally see when one player holds off another, those homoerotic man love player pile-ups, the odd bug that saw players being flung into the air by the hips of opponents, and more.

Put simply, the arms are better, homosexuality has been removed and hips are weaker. Stick that on the back of the box, EA.

The dribbling has also been adjusted, with lateral movement made possible by the use of the left stick. This opens up far more attacking possibilities, as you can move around defenders while still facing the goal. Think FIFA Street but with less rainbow flicks. 360 degree control remains possible too, meaning your player movement should more closely reflect the real thing.

As will free kicks. Rather than just trying to pelt the ball in from 30 yards every time, FIFA 13 will encourage you to execute training ground set-pieces, with passing routines and dummied kicks becoming a possibility. You can also place extra players in the wall, then get them to lean out of the way to make a gap.

Beyond this, EA Sports has also been working on teammate AI and movement. New algorithms use your position to calculate a couple of moves ahead and discern what you intend to do, in order for attackers to make intelligent runs. They will also walk the offside line more intelligently as well as make diagonal runs into space.

There’s more too with further small, fiddly changes in store like improved referee intelligence around fouls and cardings, alternative pass types like dinked ground passes and lofted through balls, plus new animations for both play and celebrations. All sound like decent ideas, incremental improvements on a game that, to be fair, was pretty blummin’ good in the first place.

Yet the big stuff is yet to be revealed. We know there will be optional Move controls, but EA Sports remains tight-lipped about just how they’ll work, plus we’d be massively surprised if there wasn't a big feature to be unveiled at some point in the near future. We’ll just have to wait and see. In the meantime devs, marketing teams and journos alike are all stuck trying to make iterative gameplay improvements sound exciting.

http://www.ea.com/uk/football/fifa

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The FIFA 13 demo will be released on 11th September. Demo Teams Include AC Milan, Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund, Juventus and Manchester City.

The demo stadium is going to be the Etihad

Tempting fate putting the Ox on the cover before Stoke away

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Soundtrack:
Animal Kingdom – Get Away With It
Ashtar Command – Mark IV feat. Joshua Radin
Astro – Panda
Atlas Genius – If So
Band Of Horses – Feud
Bastille – Weight Of Living, Part 2
Bloc Party – We Are Not Good People
Cali – Outta My Mind
Clement Marfo & The Frontline – Us Against The World
Crystal Fighters – Follow
deadmau5 feat. Gerard Way – Professional Griefers
Django Django – Hail Bop
Duologue – Get Out While You Can
Elliphant – TeKKno Scene feat. Adam Kanyama
Featurecast – Got That Fire (Oh La Ha) (feat. Pugs Atomz)
Fitz And The Tantrums – Spark
Flo Rida feat. Lil Wayne – Let It Roll, Part 2
Foreign Beggars & Bare Noise – See The Light
Hadouken! – Bliss Out
Imagine Dragons – On Top Of The World
Jagwar Ma – What Love
Kasabian – Club Foot
Jonathan Boulet – You’re A Animal
Kimbra – Come Into My head
Kitten – G#
Kraftklub – Eure Madchen
Ladyhawke – Black White & Blue
Madeon – Finale
Matisyahu – Searchin
Metric – Speed The Collapse
Miike Snow – Paddling Out
Passion Pit – I’ll Be Alright
Reptar – Sweet Sipping Soda
Reverend And The Makers – Shine The Light
Rock Mafia – Fly Or Die
The Royal Concept – Goldrushed
Royal Teeth – Wild
Santigold – Big Mouth
St. Lucia – September
Stepdad – Jungles
The Chevin – Champion
The Enemy – Saturday
The Heavy – Don’t Say Nothing
The Presets – Ghosts
Two Door Cinema Club – Sleep Alone
Walk The Moon – Quesadilla
Wretch 32 – Blur
Youngblood Hawke – We Come Running
Young Empires – Rain Of Gold
Zemaria – Past 2

Club foot again?

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Below is a list of all the leagues that will be featured in FIFA 13, as well as the individual clubs that will be included.

Barclays Premier League

npower Championship

npower League 1

npower League 2

France Ligue 1

France Ligue 2

German Bundesliga

German Bundesliga 2

K-League

Major League Soccer

Norweigen Tippeligaen

Scottish Premier League

Liga BBVA

Liga Adelante

Airtricity League

Raiffeisen SL

Austrian Bundesliga

Belgian Pro League

Australian A - League

Danish Superliga

Dutch Eredivisie

Russian League

Swedish Allsvenskan

Polska Liga

Liga MX

Liga Portuguesa

Saudi Pro League

Liga do Brasil

Italian Serie A

Italian Serie B



Rest of the world

Greece - AEK Athens

Greece - PAOK

Greece - Olympiakos

Greece - Panathinaikos

Argentina - River Plate

Argentina - Boca Juniors

Argentina - Racing Club

South Africa - Kaizer Chiefs

South Africa - Orlando Pirates

Turkey – Galatasaray



International teams

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Belgium

Bolivia

Brazil

Bulgaria

Camaroon

Chile

Colombia

Côte d’Ivoire

Czech Republic

Denmark

Ecuador

Egypt

England

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

India

Ireland

Italy

Korea Republic

Mexico

Netherlands

New Zealand

Northern Ireland

Norway

Paraguay

Peru

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Scotland

Slovenia

South Africa

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

United States

Uruguay

Venezuela

No Rangers, the bastards.

PES Have the license to Rangers and there stadium i remember reading about it a couple of months ago.

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No Rangers, the bastards.

But hey, at least they include Al-Wahda, Mecca

And still no Wales team

No Wales national team or Rangers? That's a shambles really.

Rangers will supposedly be DLC at xmas time. Probably bullshit though.

Perfect Jack wrote:

No Wales national team or Rangers? That's a shambles really.

I love there being no Wales team tbh as being at uni there it winds them all up a treat that you get small nations but not them.

Also if you had Rangers unless they were exhibition team only you would have to do SFL 1, 2, 3 as well.

Rest of the world?

i'm looking forward to India vs Peru

Fifa 13 EPL official :
Team Stars Overall Budget Wage Budget
Arsenal 4.5 Stars £19,000,000 £1,303,250
Aston Villa 3.5 Stars £9,500,000 £425,250
Chelsea 5 Stars £39,500,000 £1,490,750
Everton 4.5 Stars £7,500,000 £504,000
Fulham 4 Stars £10,500,000 £516,750
Liverpool 4.5 Stars £16,000,000 £1,024,000
Manchester City 5 Stars £83,000,000
£1,024,000
Manchester United 5 Stars £23,500,000
£1,745,500
Newcastle 4.5 Stars £13,500,000 £590,750
Norwich City 3.5 Stars £5,000,000 £175,250
Reading 3.5 Stars £6,500,000 £180,500
QPR 4 Stars £8,000,000 £354,750
Southampton 3.5 Stars £6,000,000 £180,500
Sunderland 4 Stars £12,500,000 £352,500
Stoke City 4 Stars £12,000,000 £360,500
Swansea City 4 Stars £5,500,000 £266,500
Spurs 4.5 Stars £17,500,000 £1,005,250
West Bromwich Albion 3.5 Stars £6,500,000
£280,250
West Ham United 3.5 Stars £6,000,000
£234,750
Wigan Athletic 4 Stars £6,500,000 £252,750

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A demo for FIFA 13 was released on Tuesday and it has already racked up a whopping 1.99 million downloads across all formats, setting a new series record. EA Sports reckon that compared to last year’s FIFA 12 demo that’s an increase of 29%.

Global pre-orders for FIFA 13 are also up; 37 per cent in Europe and 67 per cent in America. That translates to 875,000 more pre-orders in Britain alone. Despite releasing a game every year since, like, forever, the long-running series shows no signs of a dip in popularity.

FIFA 13 kicks off on September 25th in North America and September 28th in Europe.

why do America get it before us ?

They always do for most games.

I've got the EA season ticket so get to download the early release next Friday I think.

Rangers are in it.

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The club list is bigger than ever with a new league making an appearance: the Saudi Pro League. Also, if you are a Rangers FC fan, you can all relax and breathe easier. Browsing through the Rest of the World category of clubs, Rangers FC did make an appearance, confirming the Scottish Third Division club had reached a deal with EA to license their club for FIFA 13. Now they can play in the SPL as if nothing happened. New international teams have also been added, including the shock addition of India. Still, it’s nice to see a wide selection of clubs and national teams.

Ratings are shite though, and a couple of players missing but im sure that will be updated before release.