In this latest video installment Gary talks us through players work rates and how you will see players such as Mascherano will work very hard in defense, but not come forward very often for attacks. In contrast when Ronaldo is asked to defend he will not be coming back to help out very often.

Click here to view EA’s latest video update of FIFA 11, which we here at FSB are loving!

With the news of different teams playing according to how they do in real life and different teams playing different styles there is no doubt this will put smiles on the faces of many.

So why are you still reading this?! Hit the link and hear all about it.

Let’s kick it off with a very interesting 15 minute video interview with Andrew Wilson.

Hit the jump to get your fix!

David Rutter and Gary Paterson talk FIFA 11 link

Interview with Nenad Stojkovic (FIWC Champion) link

Interview with Tom Sarris (Producer of FIFA Superstars) link

Interview with “Julien” (Producer of FIFA Online) link

Video taken from the sound capture studios at EA, showing off the new custom chants feature. Lots of info on it! Also details on the commentary. link

Video taken from EA’s Mo-cap center in Vancouver, with detials given about how its implemented in the game. link

Big thanks to neogo.pl and videogame.it for these videos

Enjoy!

Below is a fantastic interview video by VideoGame.it with gameplay producer Aaron McHardy:

The player personality and individual player accessories and look sounds incredible.

Also, here we have a new preview from online magazine 360zine. In their most recent issue they have a nice long preview on FIFA 11. Follow this link, then click on issue 43 for a look.

Finally, we have Gary Paterson once again responding to community questions on the official EA boards. Someone asked him if we would be getting proper trophy celebrations. His response:

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Yes there will be. We have also added new match intro sequences.

Previews of the game have been posted by Eurogamer (click here), IGN (click here) and GameSpot (click here), while CVG have posted a brief article (click here) and fellow FIFA site Sweetpatch TV have posted their hands-on (click here).

You can also read an interview from GamerZines with producer David Rutter over here.

Some interesting tidbits are the revelation that handballs will now be available as an option (although the default setting is off), and even stranger than that, goal nets are now customisable in terms of both looseness and shape. Replays can now be saved to your hard drive, andthe 2010 FIFA World Cup penalty system will be in.

To end on, here’s a story that might make you smile. CVG report that work on FIFA 12 is already underway. Give the developers a break EA, for the love of…

A new interview with World Cup producer Simon Humber has appeared; check it out above.

I especially like the swearing and the reference to this very site at the end. This man is a proper producer!

About the game going gold: It went gold about three weeks ago.

Regarding any differences between the demo and the final game: You’re playing the final gameplay, although that won’t stop a bunch of people claiming the full game and the demo are different. That happened on EURO too.

Regarding the promised squad updates: We plan to do two updates; one when the final 23 players are known [to be released after the round of 16], [another] during the tournament to update according to form.

Responding to those asking to make the game slower: Slowing or speeding up the game has many game breaking problems. If you slow the players and not the ball they don’t intercept passes, and if you slow both then you get floaty ball physics.

Responding to those saying that the game is too fast: Take a second to think about it. Think of two screens, one is 20 inches wide, the other 40 inches. If the camera didn’t follow the ball, then if you ran the player from the left side of the screen to the right side then it would take the same time on both TVs but on the big TV the player has twice as much screen width to cover. So to your eyes it appears faster, it’s an optical illusion of sorts. This assumes you are sitting the same distance away from both screens. I prefer to sit close to a smaller screen, than on my sofa with my big screen. I remember when we launched the FIFA 07 demo, I told everyone something had gone wrong and the speed was mental!

About the star ratings: The star ratings are a load of **** in any case. You guys get so wound up about them, but they don’t do anything. They are based on the overall ratings of a certain number of players, and the overall ratings are numbers that just represent some measure of quality, they don’t do anything by themselves. You’re way better off looking at player stats as they are what are used in gameplay to determine the quality of actions.

About correcting Spain’s away kit: We don’t have to contact them to change it, the problem now is time has run out ages ago. So to correct it means doing something post ship, and that gets muy complicato mi amigo. – Adidas send us the design for the kit. We make the kit. We send it back to Adidas. Adidas say ‘oh yes, well done EA, that’s right, you can now put it in the game.’ We put it in the game. We finish the game. Adidas launch the new kit and it’s different to what they gave us and approved from us. You moan.

An interesting fact for Ireland fans: Ireland have two home kits and one away kit.

Regarding Be A Pro mode and Online Team Play mode: World Cup has BAP, [no] OTP.

More on the absence of Online Team Play: There’s no 10 v 10 in World Cup. 10 v 10 is a massive amount of work. Even just to do what was in FIFA 10 and make no improvements is a lot of days work. Looking at our usage figures we deduced that there would be too little variety in matches in World Cup. They’d be way too many England v England v England v USA v France v Germany games. You’d get fed up of that. With the time we then had we could innovate with new online modes, namely Online World Cup & World League Ladder. So you can still get your 10 v 10 fix in FIFA 10, and experience brand new online modes in World Cup.

Regarding World Cup tournament customisation: You can customise the teams in the 32 team finals but you can’t create a tournament with the number of rounds, groups etc.

About the special XI teams: Classic XI has some new players. adidas XI is naturally their players. Not sure if they can be selected for unranked matches.

Regarding the new heading tweaks: Attacking headers are improved. Players seek space in the area and make more effort to get on the end of crosses.

About the midfield gameplay of future titles: The whole midfield, put your foot on the ball and survey your options is something we’ve talked about, especially in 10 v 10. I’d personally like it to be fully manual and people be skilled enough to be a playmaker. But to do that you have to negate pressing and that of course causes all manner of problems with getting into position to block or make tackles. Football games are ****ing complicated, otherwise there would be more than us and Konami still making them. Unlike first person shooters where there are ****loads of them.

An interesting fact about international retirements: There are players who retired during qualifying who retire in the game at the same point.

Regarding the new noise of the ball hitting the net: Yep the noise for the ball hitting the net, where it lifts up the metal frame on the ground, was something I kept hearing on Match of the Day, so we added it.

Regarding stadium altitude levels: Bolivia play in a generic stadium, some other teams use the same stadium. But when Bolivia play in it the altitude value is changed to La Paz, so only then is it a high altitude stadium. But in South Africa a team is not tied to a stadium, so we use the altitude value of each real stadium.

Regarding a missing stadium or two: We wanted to include St Jakob Park, but our Swiss office wanted Berne.

Regarding the odd set of incorrect adverts at a stadium: Qualifying is a licensing minefield, we tried to get other adverts in, but it wasn’t possible. Generally if you see something dumb in our games, in terms of authentic sponsorship, then this is why. We are not blind to reality, just handicapped in what we can do.

Responding to a question from a Spurs fan: Sorry, can’t talk to Spurs fans ahead of our semi-final on Sunday. COME ON POMPEY!

A response to those claiming that the game is a rip-off: Rip off is a personal viewpoint. If I leave my house to buy a bottle of water and it’s $10 then it’s a rip off. But if I am lost in the desert and someone offers me that bottle of water for $10 then it’s a bargain. Each individual has the right to decide how much the World Cup means to them and choose to buy the game or not. All we’ve done is make a game we’re pretty proud of, the rest is up to you lot.

A response to FIFASoccerBlog.com publishing the rumoured (and later revealed to be accurate) demo details: I must find their source and shoot that person.

First of all, some screenshots from “The Story Of Qualifying” mode have been uploaded onto the official FIFA Facebook page (check out the gallery below).

But that’s not all the screenshots that have been released. 14 in-game screenshots have been published in this article by Gamersyde.com.

While we’re on the subject of pictures, some moving pictures – I believe the kids call them “movies” – have also been released. The in-game videos are all courtesy of French PES website WeArePES.com, and the Simon Humber interview comes from xg247.co.uk.

But enough with the bright shiny pictures and videos, how about some good old fashioned black and white reading material? I hear you, don’t worry. There’s plenty of stuff to talk about.

VideoGamer.com reports that EA are “not interested” in making money from World Cup DLC. You can read the story in full if you click here.

VG247.com have put together an article about whether FIFA World Cup’s improvements are enough to merit a purchase from FIFA 10 owners, which you can see if you click here.

SuccesFull.fr has provided a possible list of trophies/achievements for PS3/360 players of the game, which is nice for any achievement whores out there such as myself; you can check that out if you click here.

And finally, if you’re still hungry for more, check out this list of previews – seven in total from six different websites. Enjoy FIFA fans!

• CrunchGear preview
• CVG preview
• EuroGamer preview
• Spong preview
• VideoGamer.com preview
• IncGamers.com preview 1
• IncGamers.com preview 2

You can read the interview in full if you click here.