EA has been carefully shaping its sports sims around broadcast coverage for a number of years. Just as Sky exploded into football coverage in the early nineties bringing video game-like stats, sound effects and visuals, video games have met the television industry half-way. A match in Fifa 15 will begin with a stadium fly-over cam, the Premiership theme tune, the players lining up to shake hands, the commentators gabbing on about the meaning and importance of it all. You can click through it all, but gamers are encouraged to feel a part of the “fifa 15 coins”. On the Fifa site, players are told, “New bench reactions, 10-man goal celebrations and more will keep you engaged in the story of the match.”

Because football is a staged narrative now.

It’s a very subtle shift from simulating a sport to simulating the broadcast ideal of a sport. And it makes sense really. Outside of school, most people only experience football as a spectator event, and with season ticket costs spiraling, that experience tends to be provided by television. The idea of football is now synonymous with a screen; with the detritus of the screened event – so it makes sense for a computer fifa 15 ultimate team coins xbox 360 to simulate that. It’s Baudrillard’s concept of hyper-reality in video game form.

The past was a foreign game
This wasn’t always the way. The much loved Sensible Soccer series of the early nineties sought to provide a simulated version of football that worked within the confines of a video game. Player movement was super fast, the action pinballed around the limited pitch, the techniques required were insular and specific – it was a sport in itself. Konami’s ISS and Pro Evolution Soccer titles of the early 2000s provided lots of licensed content, but maintained this sense of pace – the best titles in the PES series knew they were simulations; knew they were different from “real” football.
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