For the first time in the popular football simulation video game series, the upcoming “FIFA 16” will have female football players on its covers when it is released to the gaming platforms and the PC in September.
Alex Morgan, the forward of the USA women’s football team, has been chosen as one of the first women to be featured on the front cover of the football simulation video game “FIFA 16,” details BBC.
Morgan is part of the of the USA women’s football team that defeated the Japanese team in the 2015 Women’s World Cup recently. She will appear alongside Barcelona and Argentina’s football star Lionel Messi in the American version of “FIFA 16.”
For the Canadian version of the football simulation video game, Canada women’s football team captain Christine Sinclair will be featured along with Messi.
Morgan says that she feels honored to be one of the first women to be featured on the cover of EA Sports’ “FIFA 16.” The best paid player in women’s football said that she knows that a lot of people play the video game and she is really excited that “FIFA 16” is highlighting women’s soccer by featuring her and several others in the game cover.
It has been reported recently that the “FIFA” series, which has been featuring men’s football teams since it was released in 1993, will include 12 international women’s football teams in the upcoming “FIFA 16.”
Not to everyone’s liking
Despite the awesome covers of “FIFA 16” when the game rolls out to the gaming platforms in September, not everyone was happy about it, cites The Mary Sue.
Some of the gamers believe that women players become incompetent every time they had their periods. And that’s aside from the fact that women sometimes do get pregnant.
The game has become subject to the so-called “FIFA 16” women jokes because some believe that the female species don’t get to measure up to their male counterparts of the game.
However, the site also cited that there are 147,000 women players in FIFA-affiliated leagues and cup competitions. If those women sports teams exist, it is only right that they be included in a video game about their sport and “FIFA” and that is all there is to it. Negative comments are unnecessary because they are not even important when gamers start playing the game.
Messi signature move
Meanwhile, EA Sports has announced a new feature to “FIFA 16” that had gamers really excited. Apparently, the game will already give players the ability to make the signature sleek move of Argentinian football superstar Lionel Messi.
The move is referred as ‘No Touch Dribbling,’ which the second best football player in the world mastered and continues to show while currently playing for Barcelona in the Spanish premier league La Liga BBVA.
In the video game, the move makes the player temporarily let the ball stand and change the direction of his stance. The player will fake turn in his run and then head into a certain direction before going back into the ball, details the Vine Report.
In order to motion-capture the move and included into the game, EA Sports actually had to ask Lionel Messi to demonstrate it a couple of times. Using state-of-the-art technology, the developer was able to perfectly recreate the football superstar’s patented move in the video game.
The new move will give players of “FIFA 16” the most realistic feel of doing the ‘No Touch Dribbling’ move of Lionel Messi in the game.
EA Sports actually went as far as posting a video on YouTube where Messi was demonstrating his ‘No Touch Dribbling’ move. The video shows Messi explaining how the move is really done. He says that he does it first by faking to the left or right and then heading to the direction of the defender. Messi said the idea is to wrong-foot his defender so that he can gain an advantage.