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The real Manchester City striker Sergio Agüero (left) and as he appears in EA Sports’ FIFA15 game (right) What does it take to be the creative director of one of the world’s most popular computer games? We spoke to Matt Prior of EA Sports’ FIFA series

Creative Review: Creative director of EA Sports’ FIFA games would sound like a dream job to many – can you tell us how long you have been doing this, how you got into it and how you define your current role?

Matt Prior: I have been with EA for about 13 years and started at the most grass roots of levels, as a QA [Quality Assurance] tester. I actually started on [car racing game] Need For Speed but my love of football soon got me onto FIFA QA and then into production and then up to the creative director role. That’s one of the great things about EA, it doesn’t really matter how you got here, as long as you can prove you are great at what you do and have a passion for it, which I think is as it should be within the creative industry. Essentially I started in the trenches and many other producers did likewise.

I ended up in Vancouver [where the FIFA team is based] purely by chance. Prior to joining EA I was actually an expedition leader running overland trips around the world. One of those trips was driving from London to Beijing and back and on the Syria to Pakistan portion of that trip I met my future wife who happened to be from Vancouver. After that trip I worked in Africa for a year, decided I had had enough of sleeping in a tent and ended up moving to Vancouver and getting married. In a local paper I saw an advert for QA testers so I applied and it all went from there. I actually had no idea at that time FIFA was even made in Canada. My friends often joke that it was fate as my three main passions are football, gaming and travel and they all contributed to me ending up where I am.

I am a lifelong gamer and the loft back at my parents’ house is a museum of gaming. From the early Binatone pong stuff through the ZX Spectrum, Megadrive, PlayStation etc: I had them all so an absolute passion for gaming was also in my DNA and is important to have as making games takes a lot of time and effort.

The role of a creative director is pretty complex and multi-faceted but it is essentially to drive the complete game design for the product and franchise. It’s to come up with the ideas that help keep FIFA at the top of its game. It takes a whole lot of very talented people to actually deliver them but essentially as a creative director you help lead and direct those features and the vision.

Liverpool’s Anfield stadium as it appears in EA Sports’ FIFA 15 game. The design team create the stadia using a mixture of architectural drawings and plans and photography: EA Sports sends photographers to the grounds to capture every last detail in order to build the most accurate models possible

CR: How many people work on the game and what are their roles/skills?

MP: We have around 80 core team members and the roles are wide and varied. From the producers/designers who come up with the ideas to the software engineers who write the code to the artists, renderers and sound engineers who make things look and sound great, there is a vast array of roles within the team. There are also a number of central teams who support the making of the games so all told it’s in the hundreds in terms of people who help contribute to making FIFA.

Games have become so big and complex with the expansion of technology that the level and variety of expertise required has grown with it. Gone are the days when a few guys in their garage could knock out an entire console game between them.

CR: How does the process work for each new release – do you have a long-term plan of new features?

MP: We have a long-term vision but our industry is one of rapid change so we need to be agile enough to adapt. Gamers are playing longer and FIFA has become a 24/7 live service, which is a huge change. It’s also not just about a single console experience now. FIFA is available on a vast array of devices so planning for all of that necessitates a longer vision but an adaptable one at the same time. We certainly have defined visions for specific game modes and map out ideas around specific features and what year they will be introduced.

CR: What were the new features in FIFA 15 that you are most proud of?

MP: It’s not a FIFA 15 specific feature as it’s been around for a while but I would say the feature I am most proud of is Ultimate Team [where players can combine past and present stars] as I came up with the original concept for that many years ago. I know so many people who are completely addicted to that and have been for many years and as a games maker there is no bigger compliment than that.

EA have confirmed they are performing scheduled maintenance for FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) and EA SPORTS Football Club (EASFC) on March 19, 2015 beginning at 19:00 PM UK.

FIFA 15 will have a total downtime of approximately 3 hours and won’t be available again until after 10pm tonight.

The maintenance will include the following improvements, according to EA:

• Help reduce the number of disconnects at the end of FUT matches.
• Improve connection problems that have been reported on Xbox One and Xbox 360
• Removal of FUT club names from items on the Transfer Market

FIFA Ultimate Team, the Web App, and Mobile companion app, and EA SPORTS Football Club are all set to be offline, while online service for all other game modes will be unaffected.

The recent Price Range feature changes have caused widespread controversy among fans, which aimed to set the highest and lowest FIFA Coins prices that each item can be sold on the Transfer Market, including players, in-forms, consumables, and club items.

The changes are supposed to Help FUT gamers understand the value of the players in their club, make high-rated players more attainable for all FUT gamers and ensure a level playing field and further restrict illegitimate fifa coins transfers on the Transfer Market.

Nation’s top Playstation 4 players take part in tournament to reach grand final in Munich.
Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge has seen its fair share of drama. League titles won, relegations in embryonic play-offs suffered, and most recently, a Champions League exit at the hands of a team that paid £50m for David Luiz. But little can compete with the excitement generated by the UK qualifier for the Fifa Interactive World Cup, a competition to find the best FIFA15 player in the world.

Competitors came to the John Hollins suite in Stamford Bridge’s West Stand from all over the UK as they attempted to seal a place at the competition’s grand final, which will be held in Munich this July. Thom Gibbs travelled to West London to witness the event, and spoke to some of the country’s top FIFA players, including beaten finalist Dave Bytheway and Jack Daniels.

The winner of the qualifier was presented with a ticket to the final by Chelsea’s Cesar Azpilicueta, who gave some advice on coping with pressure. “I’ve had the chance to play for one of the biggest club in the world, Chelsea and for Spain, a World Cup winner and two-time European champion,” he said, “and the pressure is there to win every single game. It’s always the same.”

“If you are nervous you cannot play your game and you are not going to be 100 per cent. The most important thing is to try to be as relaxed as possible and to enjoy it. That’s what I do in big games. “Sometimes I am more nervous than others, but always, I try to be as relaxed as I can.”

Cologne – VfL Wolfsburg are currently fighting it out on all three fronts in the Bundesliga, DFB Cup and UEFA Europa League, but how do the wolf pack fare when it comes to FIFA 15’s Ultimate Team?

Make sure you click on the video above to see who reigns supreme in the multi-player challenge.

• We’ve also prepared a handful of pre-match stats on Matchday 25’s penultimate fixture between the Wolves and struggling SC Freiburg, especially for you lovely folk…
• Freiburg have scored just three goals in their last six games, failing to score in four of them.
• Wolfsburg has taken the lead with their first shot on goal in nine games so far this season, including in the reverse fixture in Freiburg.
• Wolfsburg have never lost against Freiburg during Dieter Hecking’s tenure as head coach (W3, D1).
• Wolfsburg have scored at least once in all of their last 25 home games since going down 2-0 to Eintracht Braunschweig on 5 October 2013.
• Wolfsburg midfielder Daniel Caligiuri is unbeaten in three games against former club Freiburg (W2, D1), scoring twice.

FIFA 15 to join the new system, make the game more real, this is without a doubt, the players run as players will find that they have the breath frequency, just like a real player, better physics engine at the same time, the game player’s hair will be with flap, the details of the game to make the game more fit players true feelings, images in this production team said it will be over nature.

FIFA 15 as usual, are three line speed, style, shape structure. Front main set attack movement more forward or coordination. The midfielder is main lightning or fast forward. The back is oppressive and position before and after the wide tight. Midfield and movement are random strain or your location option, the defence of high pressure is decided you play defense or back leaving no space.

Stance on and oppression can nip up play in the midfield but at the same time easy to play behind, back + not urgent can prevent balls but are easy to be holding up play and width is the defence position is compact or scattered, Barcelona types of infiltration and long shots are hard to break through can easily blow your side, but your opponent out can have a good side but the door wide open.

FIFA 15 is no longer a defensive mentality a direction is such a simple set, each player can according to the different positions have different options, such as the striker is walk or stand, looking for space or job and how much for the defence of the compression degree, midfielder is forward or protection, is the most changeable winger, can be used as a winger or more cross winger in the wing began to organize, in general, in the FIFA 15 flexible tactics to change more than its rivals ball time.

Earlier today, EA Sports released a new update for FIFA 15 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC, adding some new content and addressing issues raised by the community.

Split into current-gen and last-gen, here’s the full list of patch notes:

PS4, Xbox One, PC

Added the MLS expansion teams Orlando City and New York City FC to the “Rest of the World” league for Kick-Off and Online Matches.

Stability improvements to EASFC Match Day Challenges, Pro Clubs, and Online Seasons. Fixed stability issue around requesting a substitution in Player Career. Addressed issue where some players were not able to unlock certain boot packs for their Virtual Pro.

Names of scouted players in Career Mode are now more reflective of their country of origin. Stability improvements to Friendly Seasons in FIFA Ultimate Team Seasons. Improved ‘Compare Price’ functionality in FIFA Ultimate Team when comparing prices for consumables.

PS3, Xbox 360

Added the MLS expansion teams Orlando City and New York City FC to the “Rest of the World” league for Kick-Off and Online Matches.

Stability improvements to Online Friendlies, Kick-Off, Co-Op Seasons, EASFC Match Day Challenges and FUT Friendly Seasons. Names of scouted players in Career Mode are now more reflective of their country of origin.

Improved ‘Compare Price’ functionality in FIFA Ultimate Team when comparing prices for consumables. Improvements to the Transfer Market search functionality in FIFA Ultimate Team.

EA also warned that there will be some maintenance tonight as they prepare for an important change coming to FIFA Ultimate Team. How big of a download was the update for you?

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Despite being the biggest selling game in the UK last year, the response to FIFA 15 that we can  buy some cheap FIFA 15 coins to to take part in this week’s WeView was much less than that of Destiny, with only several responses to choose from.

The verdict? It’s not as good as you expect, it seems that many people were underwhelmed by the offerings of this year’s instalment in the football series, so let’s get on with it.

FIFA Pro Clubs – absent from the last generation versions – was the only redeeming factor for JustTaylorNow: “it’s not perfect but it’s brilliant, it keeps me coming back.” Taylor didn’t see any improvements over FIFA 14 though, with some glaring issues returning.

BrendanCalls simply stated “If you want a football simulator by PES, if you want a fun football game buy FIFA”, a statement which was echoed in other comments. Psychobudgie even called PES a “fun and an excellent approximation of the game” in comparison to FIFA.

Cam_manutd was very disappointed with the game: “It is a lazy effort from EA in which their solid foundations built with Fifa 09 are starting to wane. Pro Clubs and Ultimate Team remain to be among the best football modes out there. But for single minded players, Fifa is severely lacking.”

Brazil star Julio Baptista, said Real Madrid to sign Lucas Silva, is definitely the team’s greatest blessing.

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Lucas Silva, aged 21 to 13 million euros from Cruzeiro on Monday to join Real Madrid. Silva, Cruzeiro’s former team-mate, the former Real Madrid star Baptista spoke highly of the deal.

“Real Madrid to sign Lucas Silva, is very lucky. “Baptista told reporters, 33, said,” it’s real plans for the future, Silva will grow up to be a pivotal player. ”

“For him, playing for Real Madrid would be a different experience. Some people may not understand, but when a player from Brazil joined the European League, he often takes some time to get used to. Lucas Silva’s style is very Europeanized, perfectly suited to European football, but he needs some time to get into the Real Madrid. ”