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UK Jack Bauer, AKA Chris Davies, supports Tranmere. Let's just get that pain out of the way for him quickly. Otherwise he's the senior editor of top FIFA news site FIFASoccerBlog.com, delivering daily news headlines about the game and a fully-fleshed podcast twice a month.
1. What is your first name? Chris
2. Where do you live? Wirral
3. What do you do? FIFASoccerBlog.com Senior Editor ;)
4. Where did you grow up? Wirral, lived here all my life, I couldn't bear to move away from Tranmere [/sarcasm]
5. How long have you been a gamer? Since I was six; my parents got me a NES for Christmas, with that hella-scary robot that you hooked up to it, and I still remember finishing Super Mario at 10pm one night and ringing everyone in the family to tell them, "I'VE DONE IT, MY DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE!"
6. What is the first videogame you were ever hooked on? I think the first game I really couldn't get enough of was Sensible World of Soccer; I literally ran home from school to wheel-and-deal at Tranmere to try and get them up to the Premier League - back in the days where it was only one league away (sigh).
7. What was your first game console? The NES; nobody could afford a SNES or a Mega Drive so the next console I had was the original PlayStation.
8. What console do you play on most now? Xbox 360
9. What's the story behind your EA ID/Gamertag? I'm known on most forums as Jack Bauer; not because I torture people - although some of the podcast listeners might disagree - but because that was the name I always chose for myself once I'd watched the first episode of 24 (at the time it was incredible television, literally jaw-dropping).
10. So you help run a certain FIFA community site - what's the story behind that? I loved FIFA 99. In those days, where you had to go to internet cafes to get online, I downloaded all the community tools onto a floppy disc (such as the great FEd, FIFA Editor) and took them home. At the time FIFA didn't have lower leagues, and being a supporter of Tranmere, I wanted to fix that. So with a guy called Kristian Borten who did all of the kits (I'd love to hear from him again), I made the English Super Patch. Ever since then I've always been involved in the FIFA community, and now that FIFA has got to the stage where it doesn't really need those types of patches any more, it means less time tinkering and more time playing (although I have to admit I'm glad FIFA 10 has a stadium name editor, which I've used to rename every single stadium in the game - only took me six hours)!
11. Any exciting plans for the site in the near future? We're going to keep doing what we do best, adding headlines every day and churning out a podcast every second Sunday.
12. You've been more involved in the development of FIFA from a community perspective than most. How do you feel that's worked out? It's incredible, it really is. Having been involved in the community for a long time, the last few years have been incredible from a community site's point of view. It's clear to see that the guys in Vancouver really do listen to you. So many of the things I desperately wanted to see in the game - a star-rating filter and an assistance-level filter online, being able to move the controller over to the CPU side in offline tournaments (meaning we can play the game the way we used to play football games, trying to knock each other out of the cups) etc... I didn't expect to see all that in the game so quickly! The feedback, from all of the community, has made FIFA 10 the best FIFA game to date as far as I'm concerned.
13. What's your best story from FIFA 10 so far? Scored any notable victories? I was lucky enough to meet Duncan Nicol just yesterday - one of the QA guys who works on FIFA 10. I knew he was coming over to the UK to see his team, the mighty Villa, and I jokingly said he should come up to the Wirral and watch Tranmere before he goes home. Amazingly, he said "okay"! The good news is, I got some great hints and tips, and I even managed to win a game; the bad news is Tranmere played like crap and got beat 1-0 by Stockport. I don't think he'll be coming back any time soon.
14. Outside videogames, who's your favourite team? Tranmere Rovers, although the last few weeks are making me question why.
15. Did you play sports in school? Which ones and what position? I played football at school, but usually I was the "manager" shouting at everyone and trying to keep them in position (I've always been obsessed with being a football manager, within the FIFA community I'm known as Mr. Manager Mode)!
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