FIFA 14 GAMEPLAY

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Sep 9, 2013 at 9:10 AM
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At the Electronic Arts stand in the business hall at Gamescom, a couple of demo units were offering hands-on time with Fifa 14 on Xbox One.There was always a crowd around the screens; every journalist I talked to had spent time there, either waiting impatiently, or playing a match. It looks beautiful and plays with a fluidity that, in snatched instances, makes it seem photo-realistic.
But how much extra technology, time and effort has the team been able to put into the next-generation versions of the latest Fifa title? And what are the most obvious new features we can expect?

At EA's Gamescom press conference, you talked about how you're planning to increase the sense of theatre and spectacle with the next-gen console versions of Fifa. Can you tell us more about that?
"For us, the whole next generation thing is build on three main foundations. First, it's about true human emotion, so we've done a ton of work on animation technology and animation variety; the way the players look and move. The second part of it is the behavioural aspect of the players â€“ we've done a lot on ensuring they have human intelligence, predictive physics, so that they can avoid collisions, all that kind of stuff.
"The third part is about the whole scene of the game. And it is a scene: the players are the actors, but there are other things going on. If you look at broadcast football footage, we've spent a lot of time with Sky to try and figure out how we can duplicate what TV is doing. One of our producers spent days in the Sky studio, staying with them from the start, all the way through broadcast and then afterwards, to kind of think like a director does.
"The way it works is, there's obviously the story of the match itself and the players who are involved in it, then there's the meta story around the teams and the league and everything else. So on the one hand you have Gareth Bale leaving Spurs and joining Real Madrid, so in the build-up to that transfer, the camera and commentary would focus more on Bale, on his position in the Spurs squad and how it's in doubt. Then imagine a future in which Spurs end up playing Real Madrid, so Bale ends up playing against his old club â€¦ it's like the old story of when Sol Campbell left Spurs to join the Gooners, we're trying to capture that drama in Fifa matches.
"So we've created a Game Director tool now that tracks the heat maps for the players â€“ who is hot, who isn't, who is going to overtake who to become the next talking point. This is all from the data that we seed the game with. If Lionel Messi is playing, he will be the focus, but if he misses a couple of chances, the commentary will take a very different stance. Or if [AndrÃ©s] Iniesta is on for a hat-trick, then the focus is going to start following him.
"Then we have some jaw-dropping camera technology with nice high pans over the stadium. There's also the fact that the crowds are now fully-realised 3D and exhibiting behaviours appropriate to what's going on. You'll see the crowd going nuts when a goal has been scored, but nothing from the supporters of the team that's just conceded. There are also sideline characters: interactions with the ball boys, for example."

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