EA Sports announce Messi as the cover star of FIFA 15
Lionel Messi who is fresh from losing the finals of the World Cup seems to have some good news for him finally. It’s been officialy announced by EA Sports that the Argentine is going to be the global cover star of their latest installment of the immensly popular FIFA franchise - FIFA 15. The announcement was only made yesterday on the official twitter account of the game.
Leo #Messi is our #FIFA15 global cover star! More regional packs/players to be announced soon. http://t.co/Y7JhrWORB1 pic.twitter.com/ebJJIGPYrA
— EA SPORTS FIFA (@EASPORTSFIFA) July 14, 2014
Though Messi’s Argentina who went into the finals as underdogs lost out to a heavily organized and efficient Germany, he won the Golden Ball of the tournament which triggered lot of controversies among the football pundits and players alike. Anyway, EA also mentioned that the regional packs with the regional stars will be announced soon considering their clever market strategy of having the most popular stars in a region on the FIFA covers launched in that region but Messi is sure to be featured on each separate edition of the game.
This is the third year in a row that Messi is featuring on the cover of the hugely popular football game franchise and it can be considered a honour in itself. .Earlier FIFA 15 introduced a platheora of new features and have revamped the gameplay big time in order to make it ‘more realistic and engaging for the gamers’. Here’s a prediction for the player ratings in FIFA 15.