FIFA 11 Creation Centre

About a month ago we got a first insight into what the developments of this year’s addition for the FIFA franchise will be. Today, EASports have fleshed these out further with the announcement of the Creation Station.

For a couple of years now, players have been able to log on to easportsfootball.com and customise an avatar which appears next to your name in online games and even import a picture to super-impose on a player through Game Face. With the release of Creation Station players can create players, customise their appearance, accessories and, importantly, their attributes. It’s also possible to create an original team, right down to choosing the colours, stadium and unique crest.

In these days of LittleBigPlanet and ModNation Racers, you might be asking what good is creating stuff if you can’t share it? Well, through the website, all of your creations can be shared and then downloaded by others to compete in online modes.

It will also be possible to manage your formations, tactics and player attributes completely from the web, which you’ll have to admit is a pretty good way of spending your day at work – keeping your gaming time free for pwning n00bs (or losing to annoying 12 year olds).

Also new this year in FIFA 11 is Custom Audio, which enables fans to assign chants for every team and league in the game. Fans can set their home club’s chants to play during player introductions, halftime, and after goals – even hearing their name echo in the stands of Old Trafford or San Siro with created chants for their Virtual Pro. Plus, fans now have the ability to play music from their hard drive in-game.

Creation Centre will be launched in time for the game’s release during the week ending October 1st. I’m off to count down the days until I can recreate Martin O’Neill’s twice League Cup winning Leicester City side of the late-nineties.

Source: Press Release.