FIFA 15 Release Date: Better Body Rigging, Visuals Teased in Video

FIFA 15 Release Date: Better Body Rigging, Visuals Teased in Video
Jack Phillips
7/13/2014
Updated:
7/14/2014

FIFA 15, which will be released in September, has a number of features.

According to GameSpot, the game will feature hair movement, visible breathing, and better body rigging.

EA developers have said they’re trying to make the most realistic soccer game ever with FIFA 15, which will be released for the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox One, and Xbox 360.

“From the most realistic players ever created in a FIFA title to fully realized arenas with living pitches, this year we’ve brought a whole new level of visuals to the game,” senior producer Nick Channon said, according to GameSpot, and added that “incredible visuals are only one part of the FIFA 15 story.”

The new visuals and body rigging will allow players to be “powerful and effective,” he added.

FIFA 15 will come out Sept. 23, 2014 for all platforms.

 

 

AP update for World Cup: Terrific World Cup ends with marquee final  

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The biggest game in football, the World Cup final, is underway, with the marquee match-up of Germany against Argentina capping a terrific 32-day festival for the sport and Brazil.

The winning captain, either Argentina forward Lionel Messi or Germany defender Philipp Lahm, will soon hold aloft the most recognized trophy in sports, watched by hundreds of millions of television viewers worldwide and 74,000 spectators at the Maracana Stadium.

The world-famous arena nestled among Rio de Janeiro’s hills, high-rises and favelas was packed to the rim with boisterous fans and sharply dressed VIPs. They included President Vladimir Putin of Russia, the next World Cup host in 2018, and other national leaders, plus a sprinkling of celebrities. Supermodel Gisele Bundchen snuggled with her husband, NFL star Tom Brady. Organizer FIFA said actors Daniel Craig and Ashton Kutcher and NBA star Lebron James would be in the crowd, too.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel posed for a spectator’s selfie and clapped excitedly as her national team came out to warm up, loudly cheered. Many Brazilians seemed to be rooting for the three-time champion, even though it ousted Brazil in the semifinals, because they did not want to support Argentina, their intense football rival.

Back in Berlin, a monster crowd said by authorities to be a quarter-million strong crammed in front of giant TV screens near the German capital’s famous Brandenburg Gate in pouring rain.

Rio’s Copacabana beach teemed with excited fans. Tens of thousands of Argentines descended on the city, camping out and driving in convoys to be here, their blue and white team colors like mirrors of the Rio skies with puffy white clouds — perfect weather for football.

“Messi will lift it! Messi will lift it!” Argentine fans chanted outside the Maracana.

Even Pope Francis was keeping an eye from the Vatican. The Argentine-born, football-loving pontiff pledged neutrality, promising not to pray for any team. However, Francis did tweet on the eve of the final: “The World Cup allowed people from different countries and religions to come together.”

It also showcased Brazil, good sides and bad. With $13 billion in spending, last-minute scrambling and what Brazilians call “jeitinho” — their famous ability to improvise solutions — South America’s largest country pulled together a tournament across 12 far-flung host cities.

That was encouraging for Olympic officials concerned that Rio is slipping with preparations for the 2016 Games. Visiting Rio and its Olympic village-to-be, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach praised Brazilians’ “passion and efficiency” and their first World Cup in 64 years. Bach was at the final, too.

The tournament will be remembered for exhilarating football and because it went so smoothly, with no logistical disasters for the 32 teams and hundreds of thousands of traveling fans. There also was no repeat of giant public protests that unsettled last year’s warm-up tournament, the Confederations Cup. Heavy police security around venues also dissuaded dissent. The more than 25,000 police and soldiers deployed in Rio for the final combined to provide the biggest security detail in Brazilian history.

The largely white and seemingly well-off stadium crowds reflected Brazil’s stark economic inequalities. This was a World Cup that Brazil’s black and mixed-race poorer citizens mostly saw from afar on television.

Broken promises of new subway lines and other life-improving infrastructure to accompany the 12 all-new or renovated World Cup arenas reflected poorly on Brazil’s bureaucracy, as did accusations that corrupt public servants skimmed off funds. An unfinished overpass collapsed, killing two people, in the host city of Belo Horizonte where, days later, Germany humiliated Brazil, drawing floods of tears across this nation of 200 million people.

Brazilians will long rue that historic 7-1 loss in the semifinals and think the humiliation might have been avoided had a back injury not robbed them of Neymar, Brazil’s best player. Compounding their regret, Brazil also lost 3-0 to the Netherlands in Saturday’s match for third place.

Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, and FIFA president Sepp Blatter will together present the trophy to the winners. It isn’t, in fact, a cup but an 18-carat gold sculpture of two athletes, with arms raised, holding the Earth. At 6.1 kilograms (13.6 pounds), it is heavier than a newborn baby. FIFA engraves the name of the winners on the base of the trophy but doesn’t let them keep it, instead giving them a gold-plated replica.

Such is the intensity of their footballing rivalry with Argentina that many Brazilians will be hoping Germany wins its fourth World Cup and first since 1990.

“It is absurd for Brazilians to root for Argentina. This cannot be,” said Renata Braga, a fan in Rio.

Germany’s slick, attacking, disciplined football made it arguably the most entertaining team in Brazil. With 17 goals before the final, it was the highest scorer.

Argentina wasn’t as flashy but rode the genius of Messi, the four-time world player of the year having his best World Cup.

If the finalists score two more between them Sunday, this World Cup will have produced more goals than any of its 19 predecessors.

Victory for Argentina would take its total of titles to three, still two short of Brazil’s record five.

A first World Cup win for Messi would add fuel to incessant arguments between the South American neighbors about whether he and Diego Maradona, Argentina’s captain when it last won in 1986, are worthy equals to Pele, the only player to win three World Cups.

Argentine fans sang Brazil-taunting songs. Since they can’t celebrate a World Cup win, second-best for Brazilians would be their neighbors going home disappointed.

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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