FIFA 13.

Just over a month away until release and I have to say I'm starting to get excited. Personally I'll just be purchasing the standard edition however if you play alot of Be A Pro or UT the ultimate edition doesn't look to bad.

Anyone else looking forward to this release?

There are 2 seperate versions now?

Yes, there's the standard version which is the normal price or the Ultimate Edition which is more expensive. However if you play alot of UT it is worth it as they give away free packs worth about £20 with it, and chuck in a few other extras.

Licence to print money!

Can't wait for this - the changes in career mode look class!

What kinda changes have been made to career mode? i havent really checked it out yet,and when is the demo out

I imagine the same will happen as does every year.

I'll say that I'm not going to get it, that it's not worth it, then as the season starts and I watch more football, I will get more and more tempted and I'll buy it.

I'll get Football Manager 2013 first though as it's cheaper and a better game but Fifa has managed to trick me into buying it every year since 2006.

This is a great article regarding the Career mode changes

http://fifasoccerblog.com/blog/fifa-13-career-mode-the-new-features/

Have to say the changes to the BaP mode are what interest me the most.

Sounds very good, they've essentially making the career mode more and more like Football Manager, so more and more realistic essentially. Which is always good.

Looks brilliant i like the transfer updates

my bro has preordered the ultimate edition. Does anyone know what new leagues will be in it?

The live in-game updates sound brilliant. Does Geoff Shreeves tell players they're not playing in the final too?

Demo to be released on September 11.

On the day of the 9/11 attacks?

I finally went for Madden this year after a few years and it was well worth it.

Sadly this years FIFA probably doesn't seem to be.

nadeem2099 wrote:On the day of the 9/11 attacks?

No that happened in 2001 mate.

nadeem2099 wrote:On the day of the 9/11 attacks?

What's that got to do with FIFA?

Clunge4life wrote:This is a great article regarding the Career mode changes

http://fifasoccerblog.com/blog/fifa-13-career-mode-the-new-features/

This blog, plus the fact my 2 year old daughter scratched my Fifa 12 disc, means i'm very excited about buying Fifa 13 when it comes out! Demo's out tomorrow, will definitely be having a play of it.

On a side note, I played the demo of PES 13 last week, it's nothing on Fifa 12, but will compare it to Fifa 13.

anyone else played the demo today seems like a faster version of fifa 12 AI seem alot better and keep the ball for long periods of time

I've not played it yet, wasn't online when I looked at 11am, then I went to work!

Will give it a go when I get in tonight.

from the 20 mins ive played of it , if the game is like this it will be very good , get pitch side updates for injuries was Diaby with an muscle strain

#irony

I don't want to get the demo, as I'm still enjoying Fifa 12 and playing a slightly better FIFA will make it hard to go back to Fifa 12.

I can't remember which it was, think it was Fifa 10 to Fifa 11 where they made a fairly huge change in that you had 360 degree dribbling, trying to go back to 10 was awful.

Seriously crimey it's just a faster version of Fifa 12

I agree it's quicker, the crowd noises are better to

I pre-ordered my copy this morning at Game (taken over by Gamestation I believe) in Crawley, £5 deposit to come off the final price, I was told of midnight opening and a possible knockout tournament!

Even i'm not that nerdy

I am.

I'll meet you there

Marky wrote:I pre-ordered my copy this morning at Game (taken over by Gamestation I believe) in Crawley, £5 deposit to come off the final price, I was told of midnight opening and a possible knockout tournament!

Even i'm not that nerdy

Game and Gamestation were always owned by the same company. Despite this, there used to be (before one was closed) a Gamestation and Game metres apart in Lancaster. I think it was to create false competition.

They weren't Crimey, they were rivals but in 2007 Game bought them off Blockbuster who were the previous owners. It was part of the reason then of Game's downfall though as like you mentioned they kept multiple stores open in towns. Some places had 2 Game and a Gamestation all in competition with themselves.

By always I meant before Game had their collapse basically.

As long as I have shopped there, so 2007 is probably about right, they've been owned by the same company.

Just downloaded the demo.
RVP still at Arsenal, bet the Gooners really loving having him still leading the line there.

He's not at Arsenal on my version? Have Giroud up front

Playing the Spain way with no striker then Nando

Put podolski up front instead

Brilliant Demo, game is gonna be insane.

Is it just like fifa 12 with updated squads or is it better?

I think the main improvements appear to be within the career modes, so I suppose it depends how much you use the career mode.

Also, a real niggle of mine from Fifa 12 has apparently been fixed in that players will actually try to stay onside. So many times fast players will just constantly be offside because they make no attempt to stay onside.

Is that all the improvements, i felt that fifa 11 and 12 were too similar.

No there some others. There's a link if you scroll up a little bit with more details.

I just read that they've replaced Croatia with India in the International teams. They replaced Croatia, a top 10 ranked team in the world with world class players like Luka Modric for a team thats best player probably be a 60 overall rating. Good job EA!

why have they replaced croatia?

Id expect it'll be down to a licensing issue I don't believe Wales are in fifa 13 either

I think its something to do with licencing. Also they've added two new leagues. The Saudi Arab League and the Scottish Second Tier.

Fernando wrote:Id expect it'll be down to a licensing issue I don't believe Wales are in fifa 13 either

Wales are never on the FIFA games, only on the World Cup versions. Surprised they've lost the licence to put Croatia in the game, no doubt it'll be sorted out though.

They've also lost the rights to use the Nou Camp.

I think that perhaps those in football are trying to push Fifa and EA around by expecting huge sums of money for the licences to use things, but they're not budging because they know people will buy it anyway.

i pre-ordered mine yesterday, the demo is some much better than the pes one, i really cannot wait

how much cash would you get if you trade in a copy of fifa 12?

Usually about £2, the price of the Fifas is naff all once the following year's come out.

I guess it will be the same list of stadiums this year or is there any added in?

No Nou Camp, so they might have got another to replace it?