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‘Referee decisions will be more realistic in Fifa’
Referee decisions must be more realistic in the new version of the Fifa soccer game, says Santiago Jaramillo, Fifa Game Play Producer at Electronic Arts. What special things has EA done to the referees in FIFA 12? Jaramillo: “We continue to work on the referee decisions and improve the intelligence of foul calls, carding logic, etc. With the introduction of the Player Impact Engine, we had to re-write a lot of our referee code to adapt to the new technology. So, while there are no new features for the Ref this year, we have done a lot of work on it.” How important is the referee is in the game?…
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Referees in the media (week 30)
‘Referees in the media’ will be published each Monday on the Dutch Referee Blog and provides remarkable or interesting quotes and links to articles worth reading. “Each company’s respective technology will be scrutinised across a broad range of criteria, in both daylight and floodlit conditions” by Fifa’s spokesman in the Guardian about the fact that Fifa is going to test nine systems for goal-line technology. “Fidel and I both saw clearly the goal they took away from us” By Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez, who was watching football with Fidel Castro and saw the referee disallow a goal. Would a red card for denying obvious goalscoring oppurtunity be honest if a…
