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EA Announce Champions League Game

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Lior

Senior Squad
<b>EA Sports enters world of Europe's most glamorous club competition</b>

Chertsey UK, November 19, 2004 - Electronic Arts (Nasdaq:ERTS), the world's leading interactive entertainment software company, and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) today announced they have signed an agreement for Electronic Arts ("EA") to develop, publish and distribute the first official videogame of UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUETM 2004 – 2005 ("UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE") under the EA SPORTSTM brand.

Following EA and UEFA's first successful collaboration around UEFA Euro 2004TM Portugal, the officially licensed UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE video game is currently under development at Electronic Arts' Canadian studio, home to some of the company's most critically-acclaimed and best selling sports games.

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE will offer followers of the beautiful game the opportunity to guide their chosen club from qualification anxiety through to big night glory. It will add an element of the unexpected allowing lower league teams into the glamour world of European football. Throughout the game, players need to negotiate 50 unique and challenging on- and off-field missions successfully to take control of their UEFA Champions League destiny.

"We are thrilled to team up with Electronic Arts on bringing the most prestigious European club competition to football enthusiasts of all ages" said Lars-Christer Olsson, CEO of UEFA. "Our close collaboration throughout the development of this game has ensured that players will be able to experience the most life-like rendition of the UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE in a game format."

"This is an exciting extension to our existing football games portfolio creating unique gaming experience around the romance of the UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE." said Jan Bolz, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Electronic Arts Europe.

With more than 239 official teams, including official English Premiership and Football League, German Bundesliga, French LFP and Spanish LFP, this is the first official football game to truly reflect the UEFA Champions League.

Developed by a newly formed team at EA Canada in Vancouver, B.C., UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2004 - 2005 is scheduled to ship in early February of 2005 and will be available for the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft, the Nintendo GameCubeTM and PCs.

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soccerpk

Youth Team
Well good for them but I won't be buying it. I bought Euro 2004, and it's ok, but it's limited in the number of teams. Just like CL will be. 239 teams? That's not a lot, but it's not like I ever play with the Korean league or even the Swedish, Austrian, Swiss leagues.
 
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FIFAfreak

Youth Team
If they just put the CL in FIFA to begin with there wouldn't be a need for another game to spend $50 on...

Of course the advantage will be that the game will be much more focused and (hopefully) have all the accurate teams right down to the minnows in the qualifying stages.

I wonder if it will be available in the U.S.?
 
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Rochester Rhino

Manager
Originally posted by FIFAfreak
If they just put the CL in FIFA to begin with there wouldn't be a need for another game to spend $50 on...
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They did it on purpose, it's all about the money for them. Soon there will be different fifas for each league.
 
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soccerpk

Youth Team
Originally posted by Rochester Rhino
They did it on purpose, it's all about the money for them. Soon there will be different fifas for each league.
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True. But they can only push the envelope so much (I hope). I can't see many people buying this version... Basically all they are getting is the CL logo/trademark.
If they want to attract fans, they could offer different regions of FIFAs. They could include the Greek, Turkish, Polish, Czech leagues in an Eastern European League. And have another version which would have South American clubs and countries, and then an Asian version, kind of like the way dvds are. But all versions would include the top clubs and leagues of the world.
 
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Hans

How big is YOUR penis?
Don`t wanna sounds anti-EA, but you can always save a good bunch of money gettin` the ECL patch from FIFAECP (Y) . . .
 
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nickclubman

Starting XI
If it's anything like FIFA 2005 I'll avoid it. Yeah sure a fancy license is always nice, but the core gameplay dissapoints me everytime.

Can't get my hopes up for the 3rd-4th time.
 
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