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New technology giving video games more life-like features

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    Inside look at Electronic Arts' 'FIFA 13' soccer game

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Electronic arts is using advanced technology to make their -- sports games such as -- at thirteen soccer.

Play more realistically and look even more like the real thing.

The video game publishers now literally putting pro soccer players in the game.

Being this premier league's Tottenham Hotspur recently got the full 3-D make over.

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SPORTS set up a special hit -- dome in New York's Grand Central station to capture the lightness of players on the British soccer side.

The issue were trying it closer and closer and closer to providing something that small -- accounts.

Sometimes we get technology increases the help that along the way.

Other times it's more incremental that Sony processes such as that the -- behind us the -- together.

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SPORTS uses three -- -- scanning technology it is eighteen cameras that is 360 degree capture of the athletes.

There -- -- all this technology creates a more realistic game when it sets apart their console games from those less expensive social ones.

Traditional console video game sales have been sliding due in part to the increased competition from -- less expensive social gains and mobile -- As well as sluggish economies around the globe.

It's no surprise it EA would invest heavily in in -- which like soccer itself is a global game.

People is the best -- sports franchise of all time it's -- more than five billion dollars in sales since his debut back in 1993.

Last year's version was the biggest launch in the history of sports video games.

Selling more than three point seven million units in the first week.

In -- ten million in the first four months.

To keep the game brash and -- those small screen casual game rivals E.

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SPORTS is going big.

It's using the scanning technology and other advancements to make the video game look more life like on the large screens they gamers and soccer stars.

Lay it on the west come on the so realistic -- was.

In last -- of put on the big screen and you know players like -- made some nice right.

And the pro players were excited to update their video game avatars with more life like features.

Definitely facilities so it'd be opposed to really it's both face and the bad for the funds.

Where he had given the timing so it's market.

It's that air of authenticity to DA is using to try and keep the ball rolling for -- the title.

The publisher plans to continue -- teams wherever and whenever they -- to update the game.

Predictably some of the -- at their speed or skill level should be better rated in the game.

And if you even joked about EA getting near hair styles wrong.

-- -- how -- might dribbling and shooting skills rated.

In New York Robert Gray Fox Business.

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