Fifa 13 - Skill Games

Elsewhere, the EA Sports team is also adding a new tutorial feature named Skill Moves. "For the last few years we've had tyne idea of putting some training in the game, but it's always been cut in favour of something more important," says Rutter.

"This year, one of the guys was messing around with the player impact engine and started putting targets around empty stadia – just things you could try to hit with the ball. We said 'that's it! That's what we need to do'. So we've created 32 mini-games based around the eight core skills of the game: passing, long passing, shooting, advanced shooting, dribbling, crossing, penalties and free kicks."

Each challenge will have three skill levels – bronze, silver and gold. Passing and shooting tasks will involve accurately hitting targets, while dribbling will involve an obstacle course.

"Our game is pretty intimidating at times, so Ii's just to help new users get used to the controls," says Rutter. "However, we hope to help intermediate and skilled players to hone their skills even more."

Naturally, the challenges are linked into social leader boards so friends will be able to compare their results. "It's been a massive time sink in the office," admits Rutter.

Nick Channon, EA Canada producer, talked about how FIFA 13′s improved Player Impact Engine, first introduced in FIFA 12, has allowed additional physical objects to be played in the arena, “ We've done Skill Games around having the Impact Engine and our physics allows us to have objects in the world that the ball would react to. So Skill Games was driven by that technology.

“For us, Skill Games were two-fold: One, we brought in an interactive tutorial to teach players the new defending mechanic and the feedback we got from that was, ‘That was great, but why didn’t you teach me the fundamentals of passing and shooting?’”

“We thought ‘OK, this is something we need to look at’, so yes, one reason for Skill Games was to build those fundamentals, and to teach everyone all the core parts of our game. But it was also to create Skill Games that more hardcore football fans would find a real challenge as well.”

“Every discipline has four levels and they get progressively harder and the later ones are made specifically to be very hard. The last one is sort of a skill challenge and you basically get rated on how well you do and how high your scores is, so anyone can finish it, but it’s about getting those high scores.”

FIFA 13′s skill games will put your abilities to the test when the game releases on 28th September, on every format from Xbox 360 to sandwich toaster, Lol.......