Why buy FIFA World Cup instead of any of the other football titles due for release around the time of the World Cup?

Wlodyka: FIFA is absolutely the complete football experience. FIFA has always had great visuals, and they've been tremendously enhanced for World Cup. What blows you away the most is how much the game has changed - traditionally we've been associated with being an arcadey version of the game, which is great because people have picked it up and had fun right away, and we've kept that in place, plus added a new Beginner level to give new users a chance to enjoy it.

More importantly though, we're moving forward trying to make it a more realistic football experience in terms of how the players play and what animations we use. The new airplay system allows you to do things like little flick-on passes to breaking players, and also score new goals you've never been able to manage before.

In addition to this we've added a souvenir element to the product, so we offer the user the chance to see what's happening in different parts of the world. We have videos that show off what football means to people in Africa, and how they group up with football compared to Europe, Asia, and South America. There's also exclusive John Motsen commentary, and behind the scenes footage of the orchestra sessions.

These aren't reasons to buy the product necessarily, but they put it together into a nice, cohesive package.

Do you learn much from other football games?

Wlodyka: Absolutely. We look a lot at Pro Evolution Soccer and This Is Football - all our competitors for that matter: each has its set of strengths. We're listening to consumers and building a game for them, finding out what they want.


Wow.. They look at what/how we feel? Surprising huh?

Have I just read that they look at Pro Evolution Soccer and This is Football before launching such ridiculous games ??? Damn they are more stupid than I thought !! :eek:

Lol... they arent looking PES or IIF they are playing that games because Fifa Soccer Sucks!

It's better keep your promise, EA, otherwise, I'm gonna send
the bomb threats to EA SPORTS dept.:D

It's better keep your promise, EA, otherwise, I'm gonna send
the bomb threats to EA SPORTS dept.

Dude! Don't be so mean! :p

What he said:
Wlodyka: FIFA is absolutely the complete football experience.

What he really should have said.
FIFA is the same crap that we have feeding those ignorant teenage kids all over the world for the past for years. We have a brilliant marketing department that sell anything. We just invent ways to make football more North American because we have no clue what really footie is. I mean, let's put a tail on the ball so it would be cool. And let's add some cool Star Wars effect on the ball when it is shot it sounds like a light sabre because we all love The Phantom Menace.

Do you learn much from other football games?
What he said:
Wlodyka: Absolutely. We look a lot at Pro Evolution Soccer and This Is Football - all our competitors for that matter: each has its set of strengths. We're listening to consumers and building a game for them, finding out what they want.

What he really should have said:
PES and TIF kick FIFA sorry ass. We noticed that these games out sold FIFA for the console. So we have no choice but to slowly phased out the arcadey gameplay and make FIFA more realistic. But we are doing at a snail rate so we can con the teenager across the globe to buy FIFA. At this rate, FIFA will be a perfect game by the year 2020. But please don't tell them that. We play PES when we are on break.