FIFA Soccer 09


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By Justin Towell posted 2 years, 1 month ago

We can just about understand the way things used to be. When games came on cartridges, the only way you could play a sports game with the correct player names was to either type them all in yourself (which took hours), or buy the newest licensed version. But things have changed.

The advent of DLC has meant that all games could, in theory, be updated via a patch downloaded from the internet. This could either be for free (like the


FIFA is brilliant for forgetting real football and rewriting history, as those of us who spend hours holding back the tears and replaying England’s highest profile disasters can attest (Germany ’96, Argentina ’98 and - ooof - Portugal 2006). And with FIFA 10’s My Live Season, you can do it every week, replaying the fixtures of your favourite team, and powering them to the top of the league with Stalinist fervour.


Certain things in football are forever guaranteed. Billionaire sugar daddies splashing cash on clubs they’ve never heard of – ‘cough’, Manchester City, ‘cough’. More dissent on pitches than an Argentinian palace coup. And, without fail, FIFA and PES gamers arguing across the globe over which footie title rules the digital dugout.


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