“The 15-game Club Football series is absolutely for the fans – and they’re expecting to play alongside their heroes looking like the real thing, as they’d see them from the terraces or on television,” explains Rachel Wood, Club Football’s Lead Artist. “The level of facial detail we’re working to is very high and will provide an immersive and thoroughly believable gaming experience.”
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A total of 330 players from the featured headline clubs will have their faces scanned in meticulous detail. The scans will be used in a bespoke facial modeling system created by the Club Football team. It is a massive effort in the Club Football project, itself Codemasters’ most ambitious game development and publishing exercise to date. The process involves a team of artists visiting each of the clubs to meet with the players. A digital photography rig is used to capture images of each player’s head. These images are then taken by the team’s artists and through a highly developed technique, used to construct an accurate 3D model of the player’s head.
“It’s a great system that gives myself and the other artists an incredible level of detail to work with. All the headline clubs’ player models are portrayed at a level of detail that is closer to photo-realism than we have ever been able to achieve,” Wood continues. “No other soccer game has previously gone to such lengths to ensure that its real-name players are portrayed as accurately as they are in Club Football.”
Codemasters’ series of Club Football titles is currently under development and scheduled to launch in America next year for PlayStation®2 and Xbox.
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ABOUT THE CLUB FOOTBALL SERIES
A unique concept in game development and publishing, Codemasters’ Club Football project will result in 15 individual soccer club branded titles being launched simultaneously for PlayStation® 2 and Xbox. It represents the biggest multiple headline licensing deal seem in the games business and will deliver a club specific game for every fan. This unique way of bringing a soccer action game to market taps into the very soul of soccer – the tribal fanaticism of club supporters. Each game will carry the headline brand of an individual soccer club and the overall series will be sub-branded as Club Football. Club Football is being designed to be the most realistic, playable soccer action title brought to market. Uniquely, each club edition of the game will be tailored specifically to each featured club and will include accurately modeled stadia to recreate the genuine match day experience. The premier line up of international soccer clubs confirmed to date, which will each have an individually-branded game produced, is:
LICENSED CLUB GAME TITLE
- Arsenal (England) Arsenal Club Football
- Aston Villa (England) Aston Villa Club Football
- Chelsea (England) Chelsea Club Football
- Leeds United (England) Leeds United Club Football
- Liverpool (England) Liverpool FC Club Football
- Manchester United (England) Manchester United Club Football
- Rangers (Scotland) Rangers Club Football
- Borussia Dortmund (Germany) Borussia Dortmund Club Football
- Hamburger SV (Germany) Hamburger SV Club Football
- FC Bayern München (Germany) FC Bayern München Club Football
- Ajax (Netherlands) Ajax Club Football
- FC Barcelona (Spain) FC Barcelona Club Football
- AC Milan (Italy) AC Milan Club Football
- Inter Milan (Italy) Inter Milan Club Football
- Juventus (Italy) Juventus – Club Football
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