After EA announced a trio of British gents gracing the cover of FIFA 10 in Europe last week, the company today revealed the box art for the North American iteration. Cuauhtémoc Blanco of Chicago Fire and Sacha Kljestan of Chivas USA appear on the box, with Jason Bateman Chelsea's Frank Lampard taking center stage.
EA also revealed the game's release date Stateside to be October 20, while a Euro release has been confirmed for October 2. We'll be spending the extra few weeks figuring out what exactly Chivas USA is. Peep the full cover and a new video of FIFA 10 in action after the break.
Oh, I was under the impression that there was some effect on the photographs (assuming they are photographs - they may well be paintings), it's just that his face shape seems to have been altered somehow as well.
Well perhaps he makes all of that stuff but he IS a good veteran player. And well chivas has a very wide fan-base in Mexico, also the game sell´s very well every year in here.
He's there because he's mexican and because he took his team to the MLS final. He probably not going to charge as much as Dos Santos or Marquez, and has the same impact and even more recognition on both leagues.
Also mention the mexican league is famous for overpricing the players while they have special deal with the mexican tv channels and dont charge them anything for tons of promotional stuff, while other brands, even espn and fox pay as much as the italian league charges. They can't even do interviews or appeara in a tv show outside of the 2 channels, because they have that "deal".
Lampard is a strange choice. Ronaldo, Messi, Rooney, Kaka, Henry, even Terry would have been more recognizable in America and more of a fitting choice for a cover. And dont tell me they couldnt even afford Donovan.
Might have something to do with Chelsea trying to make a name for themselves in the US.
Much like Man U are capitalising on their brand by expanding into Asia and playing their pre-season matches over there, Chelsea have played their pre-season matches over in the US for at least the last 2 years (Chelsea vs either AC or Inter broke some sort of US attendance record I believe).
Sorry, good sir, but I believe that title goes to the original Sensible Soccer. I still play the Genesis/Mega Drive version on emulators all the time. Those little players were awesome!
wow is everyone here not from north america? cos this is thefirst time i run into such well informed opinions on "soccer" on a joystiq post. which is weird cos its 3 in the morning here in the uk
"Tell you what, let's call American Football 'Football' when it's only kicked a possible one play out of four, and we'll call actual football 'Soccer'. You can thank us later"
I actually play American Football, but either way...
Soccer is more popular in america than most people think. Its not terribly popular but its popular enough to have its own digital cable station and have Henry be in a Gillette commercial with Tiger Woods. The World Cup also got good ratings when it was on. Americans care a lot more about foreign teams than the MLS though, as shown when Barcelona played LA Galaxy and almost everyone in the stands had a Barcelona jersey instead of their own teams.
@ChromeAlchemist: As I said elsewhere, there are a lot of sports called "football" and what gets called "football" without anything before or after it depends on what game is most popular in a region. Gridiron football is more popular in the US and (to a lesser extent) Canada, so it's just "football" here. And the term "soccer" originates in England as shorthand for association football, so if they (and everyone else) would stop being such a bunch of crybabies about North Americans using that term, the world would be a lot better off.
mas mejor que pongan "el conejo" en el frente, mas mejor que FIFA se valla la manera de Fight Night y me den leyendas d futbol.... Campos y Sanches lol
mas mejor? la verdad amigo eres una verguenza para los mexicanos, antes de venir y comentar aprende a hablar correctamente. Vale? Por cierto Sanches----Sanchez y valla----vayas
