Can someone explain what Ultimate Team is on Fifa 13?

[CeZzA]

I had Fifa 11 and missed out on Fifa 12 but i never tried ultimate team but because i just bought Fifa 13 i thought i might give it a try, but before i do can someone help me and explain what ultimate teams all about? i have only little knowledge of it like the 'trading cards' of making your own team and buying and selling them...but what else is to it? thanks!

[Nick Lizzard]

Basically you buy and sell players to create a squad or squads to play against others offline or online in friendlies and cup tournaments. You can buy and sell players in the trading area or you can go to the store and buy packs. These can be bought with virtual coins you make in the game. You can buy packs using Microsoft points also which of course you can pay for with real money. We don’t advise this as our guides show how you can make the virtual coins in the game.

All the players in the FIFA game are split into three categories. There are Bronze players, Silver players and Gold players. These generally reflect their ability and the price reflects their popularity within the game. You can create a team mixing any of them but some competitions online might have to meet certain requirements, more on that later. Don’t worry there are lots of competitions offline and online tournaments open and close so many are available for a few days until the next version of FIFA.

Each category is further broken down into Normal, Rare and In Form. Look at the following image which shows one of each for bronze, silver and gold. Normal is a standard card, rare means it is just that and more valuable. Every week in real life some players are outstanding. Ultimate team on FIFA recognises this and creates new versions of the players with increased better stats. These are called In Form players and become available to buy and are inside packs at the end of each week. EA announce when the team of the week players are available and we let people know on twitter. Easily recognisable as they are now black in FIFA 12. Bronze outline, silver outline and gold outline so you can tell which they represent.