This time players on the field are linked to one another. YES NO When building your team, you'll need to consider chemistry in a different manner than before. Of course, there are also power-up cards that can affect things like a player's morale, or your whole team's stamina if you're lucky to find such an influential item. You're no longer limited to a certain number of cards in your deck, so once you own a player, they're yours forever. Instead they'll basically be benched until you assign a contract card to bring them back to life. Luckily, this time around you won't lose cards once you use them for their pre-determined number of games. The cards use the same contract system as before, meaning that you'll still need to use contract cards to keep players available. These cards will grow and change beyond their initial release on February 25 so that the player you're using always plays like his real life counterpart. Each player has a specific card with its own rating and number of games for which he can be used. Still, diehard soccer fans should be able to latch on to the strategic elements required to sculpt a perfect team out of players from around the world.Īs anyone who has played Ultimate Team DLC knows, you make your team out of sets of cards. I understand that there 29 leagues and more than 7,500 players when it comes to FIFA, but charging fans because the sport of soccer is bigger than football is a shame. I'm sad to report, however, that FIFA 10's Ultimate Team mode comes at a price, much unlike Madden's. FIFA 09 kicked off the trend last year, Madden followed suit and now we're back with the original article's latest iteration of this card-based team-building exercise. Releasing Ultimate Team updates is apparently the new fad at EA Sports.