FIFA Soccer 09

FIFA Soccer 09

Features:

• 250 additions and enhancements to core gameplay
• Live Season - Dynamic update of player information in-game that mirrors real-life performances. Leagues included - English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, French Ligue 1 Orange, German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A and Mexican Primera Division.Be A Pro - 10 vs 10 Online Team Play
• Custom Team Tactics ?Become a first-team coach with the power to tune and balance 11 tactical sliders for 140 attacking and 40 defending options (more than 50,000 combinations). Save your tactics to make strategic decisions to exploit your opponent's weaknesses during the game. Plus, share your strategies with friends online
• Be A Pro - Seasons ? Pick or create a professional player and test your football ability over a four season campaign
• Improved Goalkeeper Intelligence - Goalkeepers position themselves more intelligently, react to shots more realistically and recover from saves faster

Product Description
Play professional soccer your way in EA SPORTS FIFA Soccer 09. It features new Custom Team Tactics that gives you all the tools to become a first-team coach. Go inside the game engine to customize the positioning and support play of your teammates and decide exactly how your team will play in any situation. Now you are the player, coach and manager. You have the power to adjust and customize tactical settings so CPU players and your team perform just like the real-world team plays or how you think it should play. Save your tactics and then make strategic decisions to exploit your opponent's weaknesses, all on-the-fly. FIFA 09 delivers a new level of authenticity. The matchday experience is now true-to-life with a referee and assistants. Plus, crowds, stadium atmosphere, and commentary have all been regionalized in exacting detail with 15 new stadiums added.

Customized Controllers - Create your own bespoke controller configuration, save it and take it online. Assign actions to the buttons exactly how you like them

Customer Reviews

Its good. (2008-10-29)
Pros- Better graphics and controls then 08. Lots of fun..

Cons- For some reason or another it did not import anything from 08 and set me up as a beginner. Suppose I could have changed it, but I figured it knew best (perhaps I suck at the game.. i dunno). Anyway my big beef (and its a small one) is that the AI seems to suck. I started a be a pro and within the first season I had scored almost 200 goals. Every game that I played was a blow out. I would assume that the game would be able to adapt and learn to play against someone who is consistently scoring 5+ goals a game. It doesn't. Also when I simmed a game it obviously does not take into consideration past games as I was averaging a rating of >9 and in a sim my rating went to a 3.4 and our team would get blown out. How can a guy a team that is shutting out every team they play all of a sudden lose 0-2? With the leagues best player not getting a single goal?

All in all this is a fun game, and I would recommend buying it.. I just think the AI kinda blows.

Excellent Period (2008-10-25)
This game is superb; a vast improvement over last year's title. Trust the other reviews, the graphics in this game are ridiculously good. I won't go too much into gameplay improvements, but the EA folks took their time on this one and did it right, it's clearly noticeable.

Doesnt Disappoint (2008-10-24)
This game is awesome tons of multiplayer options and other single players features. Nothing like 9 strangers running around like wierdo after you score a goal on Be A Pro mode. Also as usual most of the manager mode is in depth and multiplayer options make it a great game.

FIFA 09 is the best soccer video game ever created. (2008-10-19)
If I had to vote for the best video game for xbox 360, it would go 1. Halo 2. Fifa 09 3. COD4.
I think fifa 09 has the best graphics then bout halo and cod4, but i am not into sports games at ALL.
This game blew my mind when I played it t my friends house. I have never owned a sports video game for xbox ever, but after playing this game, there was no doubt in my mind I would be buying the game within the next 24 hours.
The only downside to the game personally is that i feel the controls are not always very responsive and or fully functionally when used. For example I feel that there are alot of times that I try to pass or shoot and the game wont respond to my moves exactly when I do them, and sometimes it does...

outsatnding (2008-10-15)
watch me go through traffic with berba,tevez,wazza and CR7....best fifa to date...just cant wait for it to hit the shelves...graphics is a plus....compared to 08....
why do the europeans get fifa first?the game is made in canada.anyway,i am waiting for the challenge.go get it.