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FIFA Soccer 09: Ultimate Team

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Publisher: Electronic Arts

Developer: EA Canada

Genre(s): Sports, Soccer

Players: 10

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: March 19, 2009

Summary

[Downloadable Content] FIFA 09 Ultimate Team challenges gamers to collect or create the most talented soccer players in the world, develop them into a dream team, and then compete online against a legion of challengers to be crowned the ultimate team. FIFA 09 Ultimate Team challenges gamers to collect 30 different types of bronze, silver, and gold virtual cards, including Player, Staff, Contract, Formations, and Tactics, to create their fantasy team. Strategically collect and manage players and different types of cards, and then set the match strategy to win. Carefully select or trade for the right Manager, then choose the best Tactics and Formations that forge the team chemistry necessary to take your club to the top. Plus, deal Gameplay cards on your opponent at key moments of any match for a tactical advantage. Live the ultimate dream in FIFA 09 Ultimate Team. Create yourself in-game, line up alongside your heroes and captain your squad to glory. Customize everything from players and stadiums to the kits and badges, creating the world's next great soccer club. Compete offline and online to earn more valuable cards or trawl the market for the ones needed to complete a winning team. Climb the league table or compete in knockout tournaments for the most coveted trophies, where the opposition becomes more difficult after each victory. Feel the exhilaration as you take your carefully assembled squad into matches and tournaments online against the most formidably talented teams ever assembled - and out play them. Here is the ultimate test of your skills as a player and manger. Write your own legend with FIFA 09 Ultimate Team. [Electronic Arts]

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3DJuegos

Ultimate Team is the perfect excuse to revisit FIFA 09, the best soccer simulation of the year. We hope this time that with the big name of FIFA it doesn't go unnoticed as it did in its first iteration with the UEFA Champions League game.

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SpazioGames

FIFA 09 Ultimate Team is a good add-on for the original game. It isn't original, because it comes from Uefa Champions 2006/2007; but it adds new unlockable hairstyles, tattoos and other funny things. Someone could dislike the presence of the arcade-style bonus cards, but the real issue is that sometimes the Ultimate Team will simply not work because of the EA servers status. Despite some problems, this DLC is a good purchase for any FIFA09 player, provided that he has sympathy for collectible cars and the arcade functions intrinsic in the new game mode.

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Eurogamer

It's fun in bursts, but you're likely to find that Ultimate Team is more a short-lived novelty than an addition that will significantly heighten your enjoyment of what is already the best football sim on the market.

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D+PAD Magazine

When it works, it’s great fun and, just like the stickers, will undoubtedly hook many people in – as long as they accept its shortfalls.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes

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Joe K gave it a5:
You can knock that up to a nine when EA decide to actually make it work but at the moment it is an absolute mess. Lag, crashing and problems connecting are just the start of the problems and when you get to the game breaking ones like not being able to progress in a tournament because it doesn't register you pressing the buttons or the fact that your players simply vanish make this game almost completely broken. I am sure they must release a patch to fix it but as it is at the moment this peace of DLC is an embarrassment to the people who created it.

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