Soccer Video Game Makers are Determined to Make you Sit on your Ass

If you are video game player (is that what kids call “gamers” these days?), you are probably excited by the news that EA has released the goods on the technology used in its FIFA 07 game for Xbox.

If you are like us and stopped playing video games once they required an advanced degree to operate the joystick and when you could no longer compete with your 5-year-old nephew, you will be amazed by the time, money and effort spent to make the game more realistic than real life.

The game apparently involves a new type of engine that probably could power a NASA rocket.

The new engine creates a decision-making layer in FIFA 07 that gives each individual player a ’football brain’ – a level of intelligence never before seen in a videogame. Player characteristics are now based on brand-new traits and twice the number of attributes, so no two players move in exactly the same way. Instead, they behave like the individual athletes we see gracing the pitch week-in, week-out.

FIFA 07 allows players to recognize their favorite athletes by the way they move. The human biomechanics of each athlete are taken into account and replicated in the game because the new engine is data-driven — the player motion is driven by individual attributes, physical characteristics and for the first time, traits.

Now if only they could create a ‘user brain’ so we can figure out how to play the damn thing!

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