With FIFA 19 hitting stores on September 28 (unless you pre-order the Champions Edition or Ultimate Edition, in which case you can play three days before all of the peasants), anticipation is at an all-time high.
As with every year, the new release of FIFA is a big deal in the soccer community. No sport more closely identifies with its video game counterpart than soccer, and this year’s edition will be no different. EA Sports announced Friday it’s going all out to give gamers the authentic LaLiga experience, but a look at some of the FIFA 19 stadiums reveals one major venue was left out.
FIFA 19 will add 16 new stadiums and more than 200 new headscans just for LaLiga. Here’s a hype video/trailer to get you excited to play as a Ronaldo-less Real Madrid.
People buy the new FIFA games each year for a number of reasons. It might be the new modes (this year has plenty of awesome kick-off modes), the chance to rep as Alex Hunter in The Journey or to play with new players and kits.
We told you about some of the rumors surrounding the next edition of the FIFA video game franchise, and it turns out some of those rumors are indeed going to be a part of the new game. EA Sports dropped a video Thursday that shows all of the FIFA 19 new modes for "Kick-Off."
At the age of 19, Alex Hunter’s career is already approaching that of the journeyman. Back in FIFA 17, you selected a Premier League club to start with, but you were then loaned to a Championship side before returning to the EPL.
In FIFA 18, you started with your parent club before being offloaded to the Los Angeles Galaxy because of Michael the conniving agent. After grinding in MLS, you then signed with either Atletico Madrid, PSG or Bayern Munich.
Mosaad Aldossary, the Saud Arabian better known as “Msdossary,” is the world’s best FIFA 18 player. Better yet, after a 4-0 aggregate victory in the grand final, Msdossary is taking home a quarter of a million dollars in FIFA eWorld Cup prize money.
Msdossary defeated Stefano Pinna (who goes by the unoriginal avatar of “StefanoPinna”) 2-0 in each leg of the final. Msdossary was the Xbox One champion while StefanoPinna won the PlayStation 4 division.
FIFA 19 is just eight weeks from being released (Sept. 28), and the hype is starting to build. EA Sports managed to win the licence for the Champions League and Europa League over from the folks at Konami and PES, so already FIFA 19 has a point on the board over its rivals.
But, if rumors are to be believed, that’s not all that will be different about FIFA 19 this year.
In the age of sophisticated computer models and immense libraries of statistical data, a variety of big banking firms and statistical aggregation companies tried their hand at predicting the winner for this year’s World Cup. Goldman Sachs, UBS, ING, Macquarie Bank and FiveThirtyEight, all known for their statistical prowess, crunched some numbers and spat out a champion.
Back in June we showed you the new FIFA 19 cover for this year’s edition. There are a few different versions of the FIFA video game depending upon how much extra money you want to pay for a few small annual updates, but all three covers have one thing in common: Cristiano Ronaldo. In a Real Madrid uniform.
There’s one small problem: Ronaldo doesn’t play for Real Madrid anymore.
It’s a bit of a holiday around the world these days, the date on which the world’s greatest sport gets a new installment from the sport’s greatest video game franchise. The FIFA 19 release date is one that should be jotted down onto your calendar and probably marked off as a day you want to call in sick.