Fresh technology, women’s football at the heart of EA Sports' new FC 24 game

EA’s flagship football game has a new look and name this year, with fresh technology and women’s football headlining the major changes.

EA Sports FC 24 - or simply FC 24 - is the latest edition of the popular video game franchise formerly known as FIFA. 

The Sporting News was in attendance at the FC 24 Showcase in Sydney to take a closer look at the soon-to-be-released game.

Player capture technology has come a long way in sports video games.

EA Sports previously brought players into studios, using skin-tight motion capture suits to analyse movement before inserting it into the game.

Now, they’ve moved to a new volumetric capture technology - labelled HyperMotion V - which uses artificial intelligence to extract data directly from match footage.

FC 24 uses video from the Premier League, La Liga and both the UEFA Men’s and Women’s Champions League to create a highly-detailed experience.

“Now we have access to the best players in the world competing at the highest possible level, and that gives us basically the top of the top in terms of motion,” senior producer at EA Sports, Sam Rivera, told The Sporting News.

“And when you put that motion in the game, the game right away starts feeling more tactical, more authentic and better replicates what happens in real football.”

For previous editions of the game, EA Sports would spend several hours manually updating movements for individual players.

This new technology, however, enables them to tap into a larger amount of data.

“Some things are now easier because we have a lot of data, and we can do a lot of stuff with that data that we couldn't before,” Rivera explained.

“However, it wasn't necessarily an easy implementation, because you need to be able to handle a lot of data and you need to