EA extends UEFA license
Posted by M (22 Nov 2004, 10:25 a.m. NZDT)
Electronic Arts and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) have signed an agreement for Electronic Arts to develop, publish and distribute the first official videogame of UEFA Champions League 2004 – 2005 under the EA Sports brand.
Following EA and UEFA's first collaboration around UEFA Euro 2004 Portugal, the officially licensed Champions League game is currently under development at Electronic Arts' Canadian studio, home to some of the company's most critically-acclaimed and best selling sports games including FIFA Football 2005.
The new license will allow football gamers a chance to get an early update to the studio's FIFA work. The Euro 2004 game showed the implementation of some new gameplay features and it now looks likely the market will see a regular evolution of the series in a similar manner to the improvements Konami makes each year between Winning Eleven and Pro Evolution Soccer.
UEFA Champions League is scheduled for release in February on all consoles and PC.
