By Mark Baber
August 13 – EA Sports has announced new additions to the Legends line-up in FIFA 15, due to be released on September 23 in the US, whilst the company has confirmed work on FIFA 16 and even FIFA 17 is already underway.
The new additions to the Legends line-up were announced at Gamescom 2014 and include Peter Schmeichel, Roberto Carlos, Roy Keane, Sir Bobby Moore, Alan Shearer, Jay-Jay Okocha, Carlos Valderrama, Franco Baresi, Laurent Blanc, Hristo Stoichkov, Emilio Butragueno, Andreas Brehme, Brian and Michael Laudrup.
EA Chief Operating Officer, Peter Moore has confirmed that FIFA 16 is already well into its development cycle in a bid to stave off competition.
Regarding the core game Moore confirmed that there was never any let up in the development, telling Computer and Video Games: “We have several hundred people working on that and it’s a staggered development process, so there are already people working on FIFA 16.”
According to Moore: “You have parallel development that goes on where you have frontrunners that are thinking about what FIFA 16 is and in some instances FIFA 17 because there are development and engineering and tech decisions that need to be made.”
FIFA 15 will see an improved ball control system and all 20 Premier League stadia recreated in the game for the first time as well as players showing “emotional intelligence,” and more realistic crowd reactions. Goalline technology (GLT) has also been recreated in the game.
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