News of the September release of the FIFA 10 demo was welcome along with a brand new feature called Virtual Pro. FIFA has recently led the way, along with NHL, in pioneering features that have subsequently been rolled out to other EA Sports titles and this one sounds like it has similarly great potential.
"At the start of FIFA 10 pre-production (the producers’ favourite time of the year - when we brainstorm ideas for the upcoming game) we found a lot of the dev team, along with our community, commented on how they enjoyed being able to create a player to use in Be-A-Pro Seasons, Manager Mode and the other game modes, but found it a little frustrating that for many of the modes they’d have to create a new player and that none of their previous achievements counted for anything. Other feedback included people wanting to use their created player online in team play, as well as suggestions that our create-player feature didn’t allow you to achieve the same level of likeness you’re able to in other games. So the producers gathered together and created Virtual Pro; a feature that would allow you to do all of the above and much more…"
Read the entire blog entry here.
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