2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil (PS3 & 360)

[cdj]

Experience all the Fun, Excitement, and Drama of Football’s Greatest Event. Multiple improvements and innovations to the award-winning gameplay of FIFA 14, plus 100 new animations, make EA SPORTS™ 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ the most accessible, fun, and exciting EA SPORTS FIFA title on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Features

• World Class Control – all-new control system which includes additional dribbles and flicks. New passing animations, including both ground and outside of the foot curling passes, will open the door to more attacking options.
• Set Piece Tactics – Use the D-pad to command your teammates and strike fear from set pieces and corners.
• New Penalty Kicks – New save animations and shot tuning puts players in control of their nation's fate. Keepers can throw off kick-takers by performing different animations including wobbly-knees, matador, and shoot-it-there points.
• Over-the-Back Headers – Now defenders can leap over attacking players to clear the ball to safety.
• adidas Ball Physics – We’ve partnered with the official football supplier of the FIFA World Cup to ensure the Brazuca and other adidas footballs behave as they would in the real world.

Game Modes

• Road to the FIFA World Cup™ – The most immersive tournament mode in EA SPORTS FIFA history. Choose from any of the 203 National Teams sanctioned by FIFA and play with up to 32 players locally through the qualifying rounds, and proceed on to the group stage of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™.
• Road to Rio de Janeiro™ – Compete online with any of the 203 National Teams and progress across a map of Brazil's 12 host cities. Win the final and hoist the FIFA World Cup Trophy at Estadio do Maracana in Rio.
• Captain your Country – The popular FIFA game mode returns. Work your way through the squad list and lead your country through qualifying and to FIFA World Cup glory.
• Story of Qualifying – Over 60 real scenarios taken directly from 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying. Relieve, recreate and/or change the outcome of some the best matches.
• Additional Modes include 2014 FIFA World Cup, Kick Off, Skill Games, Online Friendlies, EA SPORTS Football Club

Presentation

• Patriotic Presentation – Banners, flags and even see fans cheer from home with all new crowd rendering that brings the World Cup atmosphere alive.
• EA SPORTS Talk Radio – Dynamic tournament updates from a number of ESPN talents, delivering over 50 hours’ worth of recorded audio that adapt to your own FIFA World Cup Experience
• 203 nations, 7,469 players, 19 officially licensed managers, 21 stadiums, including all 12 authentic stadiums in Brazil, and over 15 hours of added in-game commentary.

[CLW]

WTF no PS4/XB1?

[SmoothPancakes]

WTF no PS4/XB1?

Yeah, that decision is already getting bashed online.

As for these special little World Cup games, meh, I'll pass. I can play the World Cup (not the official 2014 World Cup lineup of teams, but still the World Cup) as an international manager or player in FIFA 14. Good enough for me.

[JBHuskers]

WTF no PS4/XB1?

Yeah, kinda ridiculous IMO.

[cdj]

The rationale behind no PS4/XB1, via Polygon:

2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil will be priced as a "front-line, full-featured console game," said Matt Prior, lead producer on the title at EA Canada, through an EA representative in an email to Polygon. Although he didn't provide a specific price, that presumably means the game will launch at $59.99.

Prior also confirmed that 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil isn't being developed on PS4 or Xbox One, although he noted that World Cup content is on the way to FIFA Ultimate Team for FIFA 14.

"When we made the decision we considered a number of factors but most importantly we wanted to create the best game we could that could reach as many people as possible and the way to do that was make our best game yet on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3," Prior explained. "We gave our team the mandate of setting a laser focus on building the highest quality game for [Xbox 360] and PS3 they could, and that's exactly what they are doing."


Personal guess/stance is that they viewed development cost not worth the return, given the relatively small next-gen user-base and game selection, especially with one FIFA game already available. They probably felt they would cannibalize the market. Plus it likely would have had development congruent with FIFA NG which may have slowed both titles.

[steelerfan]

Would have made more sense to have kept FIFA 14 off of next gen and put this game on next gen, imo.

[CLW]

Would have made more sense to have kept FIFA 14 off of next gen and put this game on next gen, imo.

That or just add the world cup stuff as DLC (which I'm pretty sure they did for either the World Cup and/or Euro) before.

[steelerfan]

That or just add the world cup stuff as DLC (which I'm pretty sure they did for either the World Cup and/or Euro) before.

Euro 2012 was DLC and was a failure. They can make a ton of cash on a World Cup game (casuals will buy it before they consider FIFA) so it's only smart to make it a stand alone.

Add to it the massive licensing costs and I doubt there is any room to make $ with it being DLC.

[steelerfan]

I'm seeing April 15 as the release date for North America, fwiw.

[bdoughty]

Go suck a dick EA, what a moronic decision. I played the crap out of WC 2010 and was looking forward to this. Enjoy your third straight shittiest cocksucking company in America. No, the WORLD since this is a FIFA game.

The company has followed up by announcing that the Xbox One and PS4 versions of FIFA 14 will receive World Cup content and tournaments in Ultimate Team.

[SmoothPancakes]

Go suck a dick EA, what a moronic decision. I played the crap out of WC 2010 and was looking forward to this. Enjoy your third straight shittiest cocksucking company in America. No, the WORLD since this is a FIFA game.

[bdoughty]

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[bdoughty]

Those sorry &%$#$@ %$#*&@ %&$#@*& lied to us. Found this posted at Neogaf.

http://www.videogamer.com/xboxone/fi..._xbox_one.html

Not only that but this is the same company that released FIFA World Cup 06 just after the 360 released and it had an even smaller customer base at the time.

[jaymo76]

I too would have loved to own this for the PS4. What a crazy decision.

[cdj]

[steelerfan]

I'm quite sure I will be picking this up next month. Thanks for posting, cdj.

[cdj]

Game modes trailer:

[steelerfan]

[jaymo76]

Looks very good so far. Then again, all of the World Cup games are solid offerings. I still cannot believe though that this was not also developed for the PS4 and 1. Due to that fact I will be passing which is too bad because the qualifying phase is so much fun.

[steelerfan]

Demo is available in the PlayStation store.