FIFA 15 Ultimate Team - Four New Reasons to Play

FIFA 15 Ultimate Team - Four New Reasons to Play

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Lee Bradley

FIFA Ultimate Team isn't just any old game mode, it's the biggest and most compelling mode for one of the longest-running, most popular franchises in the world. It's a big deal. So you'll be pleased to hear that in FIFA 15, FUT is back with a number of new additions to freshen things up.

But what are these new things? We grabbed FIFA Ultimate Team Lead Developer, Marcel Kuhne, to talk us through them. You probably don't need any encouragement, but here's four new reasons to play FUT 15.

Concept Squads

“Concept Squads is a new tool that we’re adding in FIFA 15, where we give you the ability to use the whole player database within FUT. You can use it in multiple ways; you can either place an individual player in a squad, you can replace a whole midfield, or you can build a complete dream squad to test out the chemistry of the players and work out exactly who you want to chase on the transfer market.”

Loan Players

“With loan players, our main thought was that we want you to feel what the best players in FUT 15 feel like. So in FIFA 15 there’s several ways to get loan players. The first time you enter FUT 15 you’ll get to sign one world class loan player. You’ll notice their different because they have a blue outline and a little blue widget that indicates how many games they have left with you. Loans are based on games, not time.

“You can also redeem new loan players in the EA Sports FC catalogue and we’ll be periodically releasing new players in there. So once you’ve had a loan-specific guy, you can’t loan him again because it’s a one-off. But there’ll always be new players. If you pre-order the FIFA 15 Ultimate Edition you will also get to loan Messi."

Sharing and Commenting

"One thing that’s really interesting, especially about Concept Squads, is when you combine them with the EAS FC feed you can share them with user users. So in FUT 15, when you share your squad with your friends, they’ll have the option to Like it, Dislike it, comment on on it - and as a cool extra thing they can copy that squad as a concept blueprint and then chase down the same squad. It opens up a bunch of possibilities. For example you could have a contest with your friends saying, ‘Hey, let’s see who can build this squad faster' or 'Can you give me some insight into how I can improve this squad?” - so there’s a lot of social interaction comes with that.

Legends

"We’re bringing Legends back, again exclusively on Xbox One and Xbox 360. For FUT 15 there’s going to be 15 new Legends, in addition to the ones that we had last year as well. These legends include Franco Baresi, Laurent Blanc, Andreas Brehme, Emilio Butragueño, Roy Keane, Brian and Michael Laudrup, Bobby Moore, Jay-Jay Okocha, Peter Schmeichel, Roberto Carlos, Alan Shearer, Carlos Valderrama and Hristo Stoichkov. We're really excited about what these new players, and all the new additions, are going to bring to FUT 15."

FIFA 15 is out on September 23rd in North America and September 26th in Europe.

Comments
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  • Not bad the concept squads is a very good idea kind of like a wish list. Cant wait for this been looking forward to it.
  • All I want is for the Over-the-Top Through Ball & Crossing Headers to be nerfed. Or atleast have the defends act like they're actually playing Football.
  • Concept squads sounds great. Nothing worst than chasing a player, finally getting him and then realising they naff up the chemistry, whether it be overall or within the specific team area.
  • I'm wondering if the diff between 360 and One will be limited to just the gfx... Let's hope so!
  • Everyone pre-ordering the game will get a loan Messi. Wow..EA really uses all the cheap tricks to get the 10-year-olds to buy their games each and every year. Don't want to imagine UT games full of Messis.
  • Concept squads are definitely awesome and ways to figure out your squad. The amount of time I used to do research across futhead and write things down on notepad, checking chemistry etc, figuring it out in your head or again on certain websites in a squad builder. Sharing & comments could be quite cool too. @2 - Yeah definitely, all online play is plagued by lob through ball & crossing headers, far too OP. @4 - Apparently it's a separate division in EA working on the last gen builds and the features cut out are things like emotions, TV style camera celebrations, something to do with ball boy, flagmen & fan reactions I heard/read. All to do with tech and the power of the console being able to handle it. @5 - It's only for 5 games so in the long run, it's not going to matter. Besides Messi isn't a massive game changer. I can't count the amount of times he's been in an opponents squad and barely had a chance to touch the ball on two hands. Also if last season at Barça counts for anything going against his rating then we need not worry lol
  • @6 Flagmen? WHAT THE FUCK!
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