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By Azhar on 22 Aug, 2013: published about 2 years ago
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EA May Be Lazy With FIFA On Vita, But It’s Getting Scam-Worthy Now

EA May Be Lazy With FIFA On Vita, But It’s Getting Scam-Worthy Now

As an owner of FIFA Football on PlayStation Vita, the debut FIFA title on the handheld platform, I know that it’s based on FIFA 11 gameplay and, aside from implementing some touch controls and redoing the player ratings, very little is significant or modern about the title.

I thought that would change with FIFA 13, but I stopped dead in my tracks and refused to purchase it when it drew criticism for being a repackaged version of FIFA Football, with only new player kits to boast about.

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    Now, according to a Eurogamer report, it’s looking highly probable that FIFA 14 on PS Vita will again be nothing more than a reskin of previous installments.

    EA Sports’ David Rutter latest comments suggests that this year’s FIFA on Vita will be no different, bar updated kits and rosters.

    “There will be a Vita version, and it’ll be the same great gameplay,” Rutter told Eurogamer at Gamescom.

    When asked whether that implies it’s the same gameplay that featured in the two previous games, Rutter confirmed: “It’s the same great gameplay and new kits.”

    FIFA 14 on Vita is currently being developed separately by a Romania-based EA studio.

    There was a great deal of frustration over FIFA 13 last year from fans with regards to the lack of pre-release information and the game charging gamers full price.

    When asked if EA would consider reducing the price of FIFA 14, Rutter said: “I have nothing to do with the prices, but I’ll be clear, it’s the same great gameplay. And obviously with any new kits.”

    I don’t know about you, but this is absolutely poor from EA. Refusing to even upgrade the game after two iterations despite making the first game based on an older FIFA game is honestly pathetic. While we can’t know what FIFA 14 on Vita is like until we play it, Rutter’s comments seem to be pretty final about the matter.

    This to me is exactly like Dead Island: Riptide and Dead Rising 2: Off The Record, although at least the latter came at a lower price. Reskinning and re-releasing virtually the same game for full price is something I feel is scam-worthy, and it should be considered unacceptable.

    If you’re happy to pay between R350 and R400 for the same game with new kits and rosters, then I worry for your sanity.

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    • Elmar Naude

      haha well its the same fifa on every other platform too.. its always the same with a litte bit better graphics and some new players… o_0

      • http://egamer.co.za/ Azhar Amien

        You’re very wrong about that. The core versions of the game see drastic change with each iteration, if not always in feature set then in gameplay. FIFA 11, FIFA 12 and FIFA 13 gameplay are all absolutely nothing alike.

      • Elmar Naude

        Im not a avid fan of the franchise so i dont play it too much but too me 12 and 13 were pretty similar.. but 14 apparently has 3D crowd thats something new :/

    • Elmar Naude

      But still it is a fun game.. just dont know what the point is of making new ones :|

    • Koos Schwartz

      New Fifa(s) every year, more of the same. But then again the same can be said of CoD, if you have a recipe for success, use it.

    • Koos Schwartz

      Game to play with friends I guess.

    • Yashaar Mall

      If they at least added cross platform saves with the Ultimate Team feature, I think it would be slightly justified. Then again, you have to have internet connection to play Ultimate team, even if it was for single player matches (Always online before it was cool.)

    • gamerDude

      It is a fun game but the solo gets really boring really quickly and the EA servers are so bad that online is not that much fun either which means that Fifa is only really fun with friends which is stuiped at least in my opinion .

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