Monday, June 1, 2015

Confirmed FIFA 16 Feature: Addition of Women’s Football

EA Sports have released their first new feature for FIFA 16 and it is a big one, for the first time ever women’s teams will be playable on FIFA.
Over the past few years the women’s game has been regularly making impressive strides both on and off the pitch and their reward from EA is to finally make it onto FIFA.
FIFA 16 will not contain the FA Women’s Super League but it will have 12 international teams available to play with.
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The England women's team will be playable in FIFA 16.
The England women’s team will be playable in FIFA 16.

The current top three teams in the world, Germany, USA and France are all in as well as England.
Sweden, Brazil, Canada and Australian are the other representatives from the current top ten.
The final four teams are China, Italy, Mexico and Spain and it will be fascinating to see how the teams are incorporated into the game.
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Fans will be able to play as current world number one Germany.
Fans will be able to play as current world number one Germany.
Perhaps what will interest fans the most is to see how the female players stack up to their male counter-parts and how EA go about addressing that.
Nevertheless it is a tremendous decision by EA and it goes to show just how far the women’s game has come over the past few years.
Speaking to EA’s website US national team star Alex Morgan said “It is such an honor for women’s players and our team to be included in FIFA 16.
“I always wondered what it would be like to see our team in the game and it is very cool to know that it is now a reality.”
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US national team star Alex Morgan.
US national team star Alex Morgan.
The series manager David Rutter said that it has been on the to do list for a while and he was delighted to get it done.
“It’s been in the pipeline for a few years, and really it was just a case of making sure that the game was in a good enough state for it the work properly,
“We needed to have tools and technology in place that could differentiate between men and women. Plus, we had to factor in the time and effort required for travelling around the world to scan faces and heads, record motion capture, etc. It’s been on the to-do list for a while.”
Rutter also addressed the issue of ratings saying that whilst female players would hit 80 and so on it would be a bit different to their male counterparts.
“You will get 80-rated players in the women’s teams but they’re not the same as an 80-rated player in the men’s game,
“Our Cologne team [which handles all player data] has been through a ton of women’s matches over the last year or so, gathering details, information and their opinion on the players, in order to create these ratings.”