FIFA Soccer 09 | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 390
Platform: Playstation 3
Genre: soccer_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: PlayStation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15443
Model: 15443
UPC: 014633154436
EAN: 0014633154436
ASIN: B001AZ7RJQ
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| 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 |
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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
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| Customer Reviews:
 Amazing Game Play, and Online Play December 1, 2008
Daniel Elder (Chicago, IL USA)
This is a great game, I would highly recommend it to any Futbol(Soccer) fan out there, it has great user experience, contests, tourneys, and all.
My Favorite FIFA Yet December 1, 2008
Brian Kosek (New Lenox, IL USA)
FIFA Soccer 09 - Hours of entertainment on an intense, nearly 100% tactically customizable world of soccer. If you're all about making the gameplay unique, this is the game for you.
Some background - I've never been a hardcore sports video game fanatic, but I always enjoy playing them. I started out with the original Playstation and have stuck with Sony's systems from that beginning. My most recent FIFA games were both 03 and 04, so this was a big step up from those. Like I said, this game is incredibly intense. On more than one occasion I've pulled all-nighters playing this game with friends and plan on doing so in the future. We're talking about 12 hours straight of FIFA (with the exception of bathroom and pizza breaks). In fact, I had a rivalry going with one other guy - we were both pretty equal German teams and continuously rematched for about 7 of those 12 hours with the same teams over and over and over again. Although boredom usually sets in after a few hours of repetitive gaming, this game, on the other hand, will allow you to have a different outcome and have a lot of fun every time.
And now for the technical stuff (keep in mind, this is the PS3 version):
This game has incredible graphics and totally utilizes PS3's intense processing system. The fields look realistic, players feel like you could reach out and touch them, and the gameplay follows the in same way. Graphically speaking, the only thing that could be better would be the fans. Like all sports games I've seen so far, the crowd atmosphere, fans, and stands are only so amazing. However, they ARE getting better. If you think back about 5 years, the crowds were only flat, rather inanimate figures. They've gotten better, but their sense of real is not quite there yet. However, how much are you actually going to look at the fans anyway? The soccer match and the participants in it are the focus of the video game, not so much the people watching it.
Another big point as I already said - customization. There is a full arsenal of tactical plays and ways to change the game to your liking. There are, from what I can tell so far, a number of different ways to pass, chip, shoot, cross, defend, goalkeep, etc etc etc. If it can be done in a real soccer game, it can be done in this game, and that is my favorite part about the game so far. Of course, the more variety you try to use, the more time it's going to take to become adept with those different skills. Quick example - it's harder to learn when to do a through pass to lead a player than simply always pushing X and passing to the player you are pointing to. However, the rewards for learning how to do the through pass well are exponentially greater than just using the basic pass. This is also applicable for learning how to use the right analog stick and also L2 for quick, controlled tricks. Like I said, if it's possible in soccer, it's possible in this game; it'll just take a little time to learn how to do it right.
A big plus for some - Downloadable League updates allow you to stay in sync with your favorite teams. There are numerous different leagues to download, minus the MLS which I find somewhat odd. Don't forget to bring your credit card though - they cost a few bucks each.
In 09, they've also brought in a new "Be a Pro" mode where you can create a player and simulate a real career. It's pretty enjoyable, but probably could be worked on in the future. As far as I can tell so far, there aren't the normal "Amateur, Semi Pro, Pro" settings, and I've won every game I've played, one game 10-1. It's fun to win, but without a challenge, it's somewhat boring. Also, don't forget, you're only going to be playing your player - the rest of your team will be computer players that you can tell to play defense or pass.
This game is also great for both advanced players as well as beginners due to the Assist system. This is all set up via the Controller Configuration interface and allows you to turn help on or off, or even semi if you're trying to advance your skills. This way the AI will help those that need it to keep the game fair, fun, and enjoyable.
Finally, a few things for work on in the future years:
Like I already said, the fans could use some more personality, but that'll come with time. Also, although the goalie AI in this game is pretty great, sometimes the goalies seem a little stupid and don't charge the ball when they should. This is quickly fixed by manually telling the goalie charge by holding down triangle. Other than those two, shooting seems a lot harder in this game than past ones. This may just be that it, too, is more customizable than previous games and I just need to learn how to place my shots better than before.
All in all, my opinion is that this is an amazing game. If you want an enjoyable, customizable, lifelike experience where you control the players, this is the game for you... until FIFA '10 comes out.
Happy gaming.
 Brilliant Plain and Simple December 1, 2008
Jason Martin (England)
The graphics are absolutely brilliant. The game play system is top notch. Is the best soccer game to date in my opinion.
Pros
-Brilliant Graphics
-Real Players
-Hundreds of real teams
-Real Jerseys
-Player updates every week
-10v10 online play
Cons
-Not one to date.
A must have for all soccer gamers.
 poor resoution November 29, 2008
julio
the resolution on the game is poor. its only 720
EA Sports should use higher resolution. at least 1080 to deliver higher quality games.
the idea of the game is good, but the low resolution makes the game boring.
we probably need to wait another year. and another [...].
Getting better every year November 25, 2008
John H. Gil-flamer (Los Angeles, CA)
Again EA sports fails to take this game to the next level of graphic realness, but the game itself is still a lot of fun and I have a great time playing it. They added a few more stadiums this year and a couple of little extras, but overall not much is different from last year.
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