Thanks to the overwhelming response around the question posed on Facebook: Who would be on YOUR Ultimate Team? (over 500+ responses!) Adam Shaikh, producer on FIFA 10 Ultimate Team, has been kind enough to share his inside knowledge on what makes a great team and who his ideal Ultimate Team is.
Hello all - time for a new blog with some new information for Ultimate Team! To quickly recap - so far we have chatted about building and managing your Ultimate Team. Today I'll be talking about how you go about competing with your Ultimate Team.
Mark the day - 27th January 2010. That's when a group of eight intrepid - and perhaps slightly batty - gamers decided to play FIFA 10 for 24 hours straight in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record.
The FIFA 10 development team have something to prove. Their club team EA SPORTS FC lost all three of their club games to top rank clubs Rocksteady FC and Goldenballz FC. They're not happy about it one bit and they're back once again to prove to everyone in the community that they're a force to be reckoned with. Will they be able to get any redemption or will they be tasting bitter defeat yet again? Tomorrow we'll all find out.
In December 2009, a selection of the guys behind FIFA 10 got together as EA SPORTS FC and took on Pro Club Championship teams from the community. The results were... undistinguished, at least for the guys who made the game. But they have no intention of letting that happen again.
With Christmas now a distant memory and everyone looking forward into 2010, here is a quick update on what has happened in the land of FIFA Interactive World Cup since the first UK pre-qualifying at Loftus Road and The Emirates.
David Rutter
is the Producer for FIFA 10 on PS3 and Xbox 360. A lifelong football fan, David supports Leicester and Hitchin Town. In addition to playing FIFA, Rutter also enjoys CoD4, GRAW, and NHL.
Aaron McHardy
is responsible for gameplay design on FIFA 10. He did that on FIFA 08 and 09, too. A professional footballer prior to working at EA, Aaron displayed his skills for the motion-capture cameras on FIFA Street and FIFA Street 2.
Marcel Kuhn
is an Associate Producer on FIFA 10 and looks after the front-end design, specifically for things like Manager Mode and Live Season. Prior to EA, Marcel worked for a marketing agency in Germany for several years and, later, worked for a comic publisher.
Romily Broad
is community manager for EA SPORTS Football World. Principally, that means he gets to play FIFA a lot and claim that it's actual work. Between games he also brings us the weekly FIFA podcast and all the cool stuff you might find over at EA SPORTS Football World.
Christophe Labrune
came to EA Canada from France in 2001 and, after some time in QA and localistion, joined the FIFA crew for FIFA 2004. He was the force behind Be A Pro Seasons in FIFA 09, and is now Online Producer for FIFA 10 on PS3 and Xbox 360. Christophe is a fanatical supporter of his hometown, Metz.
Stevie Morgan
has worked in sports broadcasting for the past 12 years, despite always being picked last for football at school. He has also founded a support group for fellow fans of Southampton FC who, like him, have found things a bit much over the past few years and are suffering from post-Premiership depression.
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