A quick note arrived late yesterday from EA Sports' PR department which finally gave up the official international release date for FIFA 10. Soccer fans can now expect to be able to lace up their boots and start curling shots in at the net on October 2nd.

Some of the new features hitting the franchise this year were recently detailed:
The first-ever true 360-degree dribbling system gives players finer control of the ball, enabling them to find spaces between defenders that previously were not possible. Using an all-new animation technology, skilled dribblers now have the ability to face the defender and use highly responsive lateral dribbling to skip past him.

An innovative concept called Freedom in Physical Play enables players to perform wider dribble touches and new collision sharing creates a varied, less predictable, and extended fight for possession between the dribbler and a defender.

FIFA 10 also features a deeper iteration of the ever-popular Manager Mode with more than 50 major improvements, including new match realism, realistic player transfers based on multiple decision points, and true-to-life player growth curves.
FIFA 10 will be hitting Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS and PSP at that time.

Hooligans not included.



Bryn says: This ought to keep soccer fans happy in the run-up to the game's release. But most everyone I know that likes to play soccer videogames prefers Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer series over FIFA. Which one do you favor and why?