This news was taken from EA SPORTS' FIFA Football 2003 Website.
There are certain rituals that have become synonymous with football, such as parading the team’s colours, meeting with friends for a pre-match chat and buying a programme. However, none are so unified and as intimidating to the opposing team as singing along to your clubs chants. An army of tens of thousands of supporters making known vocally their love for the club is a truly integral part of the football culture.
The FIFA Football Development team have identified this as an area they see of adding great value to the new EA Sports title.
To fully capture the local spirit and culture, the FIFA Audio team in collaboration with www.soccergaming.com, have tirelessly been on a European tour in the past couple of months. In each port of call (England, France, Spain, Germany & Italy) numerous audio sessions have been taking place with the fans so they can make their voice heard in game. The results have been filtering back in to the team and they are confident that they will create some truly hair-raising audio on a much larger scale for FIFA Football 2004.
EA SPORTS would like to sincerely thank everyone who attended the chant sessions. Inparticular Lior Fengas, Fabio "Rimo" Rimoldini, Christian Rojo Garcia and Daniel Kaltenthaler who spent many hours helping EA contact the chanters themselves. Scroll to the bottom of this page for a list of those who attended, along with some photos from the sessions.
The FIFA Audio team have let us get our hands on three of the chants in MP3 format. This will give you a good idea of the quality of the recordings, and the emphasis EA SPORTS are putting on creating a truly realistic football experience in FIFA Football 2004.
That`s the article I`ve copied and pasted from SG. Look at the last paragraph, a complete joke isn`t it ? I mean, do they really read our wishlist ? I know, I know some asked for more chants, but almost the majority asked for a better gameplay, an improved AI, an ability to head the ball for God`s sake. They can add the chant later when the essential stuffs finished, there`s no need doing a research for it. The core of every game is gameplay, a friendly control, that is the reason why whenever we try a new game, we always look to the control section and to remap the button as we like. EA didn`t even give a button remapping in FIFA 2003, how can they forget essential things like that ??? THOSE THINGS ARE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT TUNE DOES THE CROWD SING "GLORY, GLORY MAN UTD " !!!!!!!!