The Career Mode (pictured below), according to EA Sports’ blog, will see the life of a player as a footballer, a player-manager and a manager.

The all new transfer system of the game will ‘bring the ups and downs of the transfer window to life.’ The new calender system will make it ‘easier to plan your career, manage your squad or experience the thrill of breaking your way into the first team.’

Players that are created through the all new Creation Center will be usable in the Career Mode, and using the all new friends’ leaderboards, we will be able to see how we rank against our friends in terms of statistics and Career earnings.

An EA rep wrote on their blog recently, and reported that they are playing through an early build of the Career Mode, and are currently in the Player-Manager state. 

‘So far it is a big change from FIFA 10,’ they say. ‘Things seem a lot slicker and refinements in a number of areas are definitely noticeable… The transfer system is now a two-stage negotiation where you agree a fee with the club in question and then have to agree terms with the player themselves.

‘The calendar now has a daily view and will stop progressing if there is an important action happening such as an email from a team interested in buying your player or something from the Board. You can easily see when the cup matches are, friendlies, international matches and your standard league matches.’

Watch this space for more info on FIFA 11.

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Much like the FIFA Street by EA Big Studios, the Street Mode will have two five-aside teams battling it out with each other on smalled indoor and outdoor locations with walls that can be used for passing, jumping off etc.

You will be able to play in a lot of locations, spanning almost half the world- from Brazil to London to France. You can also mess with the official Football/Soccer rools a bit- you can have different types of matches, a la Tug of War, First to Score, the typical Timed Match etc. You will also be able to decide how big and where the goals will be. You can have bigger goals, smaller ones, wall goals, and elevated nets, to name a few.

EA has also made alterations to the normal, international 11 versus 11 modes. There will be a new gameplay mechanic called the attacker versus defender trick system. With the help of this system, your forward players- or the opponent’s- you can quickly and easily perform rainbow flicks, 360° spins, scorpion kicks, and other great exciting moves. Shot controls will now be mapped on the Wiimote, and the game will also have new animations and shot types, namely blast, finesse, chip and tip.

User controlled celebrations, many of which EA haven’t revealed yet, will be in too, and the game will also support 2 on 2 online multiplayer. The normal Manager Mode will also be featured, in which performing well will improve our tema’s statistics while failing to do so will have an opposite effect.

The game will span 30 licensed leages, 500 teams and 15,000 international players.

FIFA 11 will be out later this year on the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, PS2, PSP and DS.

[Eurogamer]