360 demo to Marketplace on October 13, 2006.

[jumbo]

I don't have a source at hand but this was announced during X06 in Barcelona.
I don't feel like looking the link up right now. Feel free to search. This should be on EA's site.

Surprised it hasn't been mentioned in this forum yet, or at least, I couldn't find any topics on this.

 

[alou]

It has been mentioned somewhere in the form of an EA press release:

(translated from German in babel but should make sense)

Cologne, 27 September 2006 -
Εlectronic Arts presents the new, dynamic I/O sport engine for the play FIFA 07 for the Xbox 360 on the X06-Event von Microsoft in Barcelona on 27 and 28 September.
Fans of FIFA 07 can experience this new engine and the completely new Gameplay before the world-wide publication on the Xbox 360: Starting from 13 October 2006 a FIFA 07-Demo will be available for the Xbox 360-System on the Xbox live-marktplatz. FIFA 07 on the Xbox 360 leaves the traditional way of a animation-based play engine and sets now during the play computation on physically realistic dynamics and an extensive data base.
Thus life-genuine movements, a speed ungekannte so far develop during the conversion of the control on the players and a breath-robbing optics. The number of the attributes for the player characteristics was doubled. Owing to independent ball physics the expiration of play becomes more realistic and more unforeseeable. For the first time there are 07 player analyses in real time with FIFA.
The player can pursue the achievement of each individual soccer player, by throwing and regarding a view of the passport -, to firing and defense statistics, where at the place of the players be and which he contributed to the play of his crew.
With the help of this deep play analysis the player problems in defense and attack can determine and in the half time founded decisions to meet. The extensive features are rounded off by the manager mode, with which world class players can be trained.
FIFA 07 on Xbox 360 contains additionally comprehensive on-line features, which hold the player in real time with current results from the world of the football, weekly Podcasts and a news-ticker up to date. In on-line plays four players at a console can begin together against four opponents at another console.
Those NEXT generation version of FIFA 07 is world-wide exclusively available for the Xbox 360 of Microsoft.

 

[Trailblazer]

Thanks for translating that.

I know lots of 360 users who are interested in this game, so I'm glad for them, though I'm a PC man myself.

 

[MasterM]

i hope this is true. I can't wait to test this game out!

 

[MikeyM]

13th - 9 days to go. Really glad I just hooked my X360 up online now!




Mike

 

[skip2mylou]

Do u guys think it will be the same demo as for PC?

i know im gonna play every day till the game comes out.. hopefully user vs user is allowed.. some ea demos for 360 didnt let u.(madden 06).

o and this will help cuz no one is online anymore for wc360...

 

[bowster]

Do u guys think it will be the same demo as for PC?

i shouldnt think so mate.. its a brand spanking new engine.. or did u mean as in the teams, stadia etc.??