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FIFA 19: Ultimate Edition

EA SPORTS FIFA 19 delivers a champion-caliber experience on and off the pitch. Led by the prestigious UEFA Champions League, FIFA 19 offers enhanced gameplay features that allow you to control the pitch in every moment.

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Overview

FIFA 19 is a football simulation video game developed by EA Vancouver and released by Electronic Arts on 28 September 2018 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Microsoft Windows. It is the 26th installment in the FIFA series.

As with FIFA 18, Cristiano Ronaldo featured as the cover athlete of the regular edition: however, following his unanticipated transfer from Real Madrid to Juventus, new cover art was released. He also appeared with Neymar on the cover of the Champions edition. In October 2018 a woman stated Ronaldo had raped her in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009 and later filed a lawsuit in a Clark County, Nevada court, alleging Ronaldo and his team took advantage of her fragile emotional state and coerced her into signing a settlement and nondisclosure agreement in exchange for $375,000. As a result, in February 2019, EA replaced Ronaldo as the cover star with Neymar, Kevin De Bruyne and Paulo Dybala.

Gameplay changes on FIFA 19 include the new "Active Touch System", an overhaul of player control, "timed finishing", where the kick button may be pressed a second time to determine the exact moment the ball is actually kicked, "50/50 battles", a system for determining how likely a player will win loose balls, and "Dynamic Tactics", which allows players to configure strategies, and switch between them in real-time during a match.

In the United Kingdom, FIFA 19 opened at number-one on the software sales chart, but opening-week sales were down 25% compared to FIFA 18. In Japan, FIFA 19 sold 155,641 copies.