FIFA 2016 will feature women soccer players for the first time in the series’ history!
You could play the licensed WNBA title from 2k Games, but EA knows how to make a proper soccer simulator. FIFA’s only challenger at the moment is Pro Evolution Soccer, also known as PES, but its latest release disappoints.
Gamers will be able to play as one of the 12 international teams such as Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, and the United States of America.
IGN managed to catch up, and talk with FIFA VP and GM David Rutter about what triggered this addition to the franchise – ” We’ve been chatting about it in the game team for a couple of years now. As you may or may not know, there’s been petitions to have women put into the game, and I’m lucky enough to be the father of two amazing little girls, and both of them play FIFA a lot. They consistently pester me [about] why they can’t play as women.”
Rutter also states that this isn’t about just creating in-game skins that represent women. The game team has been hard at work building models that would exactly represent how women soccer players act – from running down the field, to celebration animations.
” We’ve flown our head capture team around the world to capture the faces and the heads of the athletes, [and] they’ve been treated in exactly the same way as Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City. We rebuilt the animation rig to support the different dimensions and proportions of a woman’s body […] and then applied that motion capture skeleton to those very believable bodies to make sure that the standing, walking, jogging, sprinting, passing, shooting, is actually women animation rather than male animation.” David Rutter also states.
Women soccer players have visited EA’s Vancouver studio to help the dev team build the new locomotion system for women which includes walking patterns, runs, sprints, and of course horizontal movement. Sydney Leroux, Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan, and Megan Rapinoe from the Canadian, and United States soccer team are amongst the women who were a part of the development process.
” We were incredibly lucky to have the US national team on site in Vancouver for a day. Hanging out with them, chatting to them, playing the game with them […] getting their feedback was incredibly useful to course-correct on a couple of things.” said the FIFA VP.
Unfortunately, this awesome news is being ignored by the fact that FIFA faces fraud allegations – some even say that FIFA is corrupt to the bone. I’m not telling you to ignore it, I’m just hoping you spread the word so everybody knows that women can also play soccer in this male dominated sport.
FIFA 2016 will launch on the 22nd of September on PC, Playstation 3 and 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
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