EA Sports’ FIFA series has all in the name of licensed; official players, leagues, gear, everything. It is still looking to take it up a notch. You see FIFA 09 will have a feature called adidas Live Session that will continuously update the game to keep in sync with realities of real-world football. Adidas Live Session will be a “premium service” enabling players to update each of the player’s stats as per performances in 2008-09 season. There will be support for several leagues including Barclay’s Premier League, La Liga BBVA, Ligue 1, Bundesliga, Serie A and Mexican Primera Division. This feature will work on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. The game would thus follow the course charted by actual on-pitch performances. This essentially means that if Ronaldo were to score a hat trick for ManU then his performance in the game would automatically go up. Added authenticity would only add to the gameplay of the latest iteration. EA’s official release says that gamers would be given a free trial of one of the supported leagues for the entire season but thereafter they’d be asked to pay a weekly subscription to continue with the service. The amount of this for the moment is undisclosed.
