FIFA 09

[Whisper]

I'm wanting to try online BAP... who do you control? Is it your player from your seasons game? Or is it like NHL where you have an online and offline one?

[Mr.iMPACT!]

you control one of the real life players of the team. So say your playing as Manchester United if you pick striker you play as Wayne Rooney or Tevez etc.

[alldaws1]

Just had my first online Ultimate Team game against some team called Weapon X. They had loads of opportunities to score, must have broke through one-on-one with the goalie 5-6 times but always missed or had it saved. Then he finally works out that he's better off passing to the open man and slotting into an empty net so he does that to take the lead. Then with about two minutes left I get a good passing move going, get it to my new Korean striker on the edge of the box and he turns his defender and finishes coolly past the goalie to save me from defeat and end the game at 1-1. Then the guy sent me a message calling me a 'jammy twat'

[Richie S]

How come whenever I win a tournament on Ultimate team I get abuse from them when they are tryin cutbacks all day and I am playing good solid football.

[Baddar]

Because every time you play against someone online that you don't know, chances are they're a cheating cunt, perhaps?

[Richie S]

This man knows things I tell ya /\

[alldaws1]

I've never been so pleased to see Jeremie Aliadiere. Just opening a pack of bronze cards and there he is in all his silver card glory. Looks like a lethal attack of Aliadiere and Dawson up front

Another cool thing about Ultimate Team is that they've added new celebrations to the game for it. Good stuff.

[R.W.]

My Ultimate Team is:

Jussi Jaaskelainen

Justin Hoyte

Matthew Kilgallon

Carlos Cuellar

Some German Left Back Whose Name I'm Can't Remember

Emmanuel Eboue

Sean Davis

David Dunn

Ryan Giggs

Alessandro Del Piero

Me (Club Captain)

Have some quality players on the bench too, but they don't get the Chemistry boost of playing 4-4-2 (have David Silva, Simone Perrota, Jason Roberts)

[alldaws1]

That's a pretty good team, you must have played a fair few games to get those kinds of players?

I've only played three or four games with my team and am just starting to get players I've actually heard of like Aliadiere and Mark Davies.

[Richie S]

Erm..................

Iker Casillas

Philip Lahm

Allesandro Nesta

Allesandro Gamberini

Giorgio Chiellini

Danielle De Rossi

Cristiano Ronaldo

Robinho

Kaka

Samuel Eto'o

Carlos Tevez

Edited March 30, 2009 by Richie S

[AJ]

So I read something on another forum about contracts running out and how they're a pain in the ass?

Like when someone's contract has one game left you can no longer use them in your team if you're in the middle of a tournament and have to exit to extend the contract which then only lasts a couple more games anyway.

[alldaws1]

I don't know how they work in tournaments but it's fairly easy to renew contracts. You need to get contract extension cards which extend a player's contract for a certain amount of games. So far it's not been a problem for me because I usually get at least two of them in each pack of cards I open.

[Captain Kirk]

Also when you start to receive gold packs and have a decent manager card you are signing them up for 10-12 games sometimes.

[Bryan Blade]

Lads had my 1st few online games of be a pro last night and some people are all over the place i'll be on here tomorrow night if someone wants to do a team game??

Edited March 31, 2009 by Bryan Blade

[The Quasi Juice]

Lads had my 1st few online games of be a pro last night and some people are all over the place i'll be on here tomorrow night if someone wants to do a team game??

In around 20 be a pro games I've only had one decent Be a Pro game in which people actually gave a shit and the opponent too and that was great because I had the DMC position, which meant I directed the play the entire time.

[Captain Kirk]

Finally managed to put my PS3 in a DMZ so now I can play private games.

[Liam]

Has anyone bought the full Ultimate Manager game add-on thingy? If so, do you think it has long term appeal, and is worth the money?

[alldaws1]

I did and I have two problems with Ultimate Team: the online play and the bugs.

Sometimes it takes far too long to do simple things like going from one page to another and on a couple of occasions it's popped up with an error and booted me back to the main menu when I was going through my cards.

I've tried to play online several times but only managed to play two teams who were within two stars of mine. The tournaments are a joke as well. You unlock them through having enough skill points which you earn through playing matches online or offline. Therefore when I unlocked the first tournament I was expecting to play some teams which are about the same level as mine but it always pairs me up against 5-star teams. So basically these people are getting 5-star rated teams whether through actually playing or just being sad enough to buy the cards with real money and then they're spamming the bronze tournaments hoping to come up against crap teams so they can win easily.

Apart from those two things it's a fun add-on and I hope they include it for FIFA 10 but it will more likely be an add-on again which you'll have to pay for. I think it's worth the 800 MS points (or whatever the PSN equivalent is) as it extends the life of FIFA probably right up until the next game comes out.

[The Quasi Juice]

I did and I have two problems with Ultimate Team: the online play and the bugs.

Sometimes it takes far too long to do simple things like going from one page to another and on a couple of occasions it's popped up with an error and booted me back to the main menu when I was going through my cards.

I've tried to play online several times but only managed to play two teams who were within two stars of mine. The tournaments are a joke as well. You unlock them through having enough skill points which you earn through playing matches online or offline. Therefore when I unlocked the first tournament I was expecting to play some teams which are about the same level as mine but it always pairs me up against 5-star teams. So basically these people are getting 5-star rated teams whether through actually playing or just being sad enough to buy the cards with real money and then they're spamming the bronze tournaments hoping to come up against crap teams so they can win easily.

Apart from those two things it's a fun add-on and I hope they include it for FIFA 10 but it will more likely be an add-on again which you'll have to pay for. I think it's worth the 800 MS points (or whatever the PSN equivalent is) as it extends the life of FIFA probably right up until the next game comes out.

Is it possible to challenge a friend to play against his ultimate team with your own team?

[Captain Kirk]

Will anyone ever finish a game?

EDIT: Just won my 5th Interactive League game didn't give me the trophy.

Edited March 31, 2009 by Captain Kirk