UEFA Champions League, former European Cup of Europe, known simply the Champions League, is the most prestigious tournament in international football in Europe for club teams. It takes place from July with preliminary rounds to May the final race only. The winners of the tournament gain the right to participate in the UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup that gives the title of world champion for the club.
The competition was won by 22 teams, 12 of which have lifted the trophy more than once. The training is the most titled Real Madrid with 10 titles, followed by Milan with 7 statements, and the trio formed by Liverpool, Bayern Monaco and Barcelona, all at 5. The initial formula was one of the knockout tournament : with the exception of the final, played in only one race, the previous rounds (sixteenth, eighth, quarter-finals, semi-finals) were played with races return. In case of a tie the aggregate score, it was scheduled a third game (playoff) to play in another country.
If there were more than thirty-two teams at the start, those with the UEFA coefficient lower unbalance had to become part of the main draw. The winner of the Champions League was admitted to law edition of the following year and this was the only case in which it was possible to see more than one team per federation; also up to 1961-1962 if the winner of the European Cup was also national champion, the team ranked second in the league was invited to participate.
This formula remained virtually unchanged for over thirty years: the only change was the introduction, in the early seventies, the away goals rule in place of the playoff game. They were also introduced to the extra time and any penalty shots for situations of equal aggregate scores with mirror. It was not until the late 1980s that they began to lay the foundations for reform projects. The structure of the European Cup was always considered temporary, and cyclically echoed that idea of a European Championship for clubs that had been proposed by Gabriel Hanot decades before.
The first change to the now classic cup was made in the 1991-1992 season, when they were required, instead of the quarter-finals and semi-finals, two groups of four teams each Italian qualification. The public showed to like the news, so that in the next season 1992-1993 UEFA gave these new groupings as UEFA Champions League , registering a logo and an anthem .
In 1993-1994 was introduced a small change to the regulation: after the eliminatory groups was introduced a semifinal one-way (home of the first classified) between first and second, whose winners were in the final.
Another big change came in the 1994-1995 season. With the previous edition, in fact, it was concluded, the contract between UEFA to ' European Broadcasting Union and that gave the right to the latter to convey exclusively the final of the Champions Cup. This gave free rein to ' UEFA to adapt completely the format (formula) of the competition in accordance with rules more attractive for private TV stations. Access to the cup was then restricted to 24 best champions of the continent, while the others were qualified to the less prestigious UEFA Cup . The term UEFA Champions League began to indicate the entire event and not just the group stage, and the Cup was structured on a group stage and a knockout autumn spring.
Another breakthrough came with the 1997-1998 season, when it was repealed the clause that had become the very essence of the European Cup: the participation of only national champions in office. In that year, in fact, the mechanism of preliminary summer on one side included those nations which were excluded three years before, and the other opened the door to the eight best runners-continental championships.
The dreaded possibility of a Super League among the best European companies in 1999 prompted UEFA to redesign the entire system of its three cups. The door of the Champions League was also open to third-placed of the six major federations and fourth ranked the best three. The format was expanded with two group stages followed by two elimination rounds plus the final. To be crowned champion was therefore necessary to play as many as 17 races, if not 19, 21 or even 23 in the case of departure from the preliminaries.
The Champions League took on a role of absolute dominance in the imaginary collective sports, relegating to a marginal position the UEFA Cup and leading to the repeal of the Cup Winners' Cup . The growing visibility and importance of the Champions League has brought with it a decline of interest for the other continental competitions. In the 2008-09 UEFA has tried to overcome this problem by reforming the UEFA Cup and renamed the UEFA Europa League .
From 2003-2004 season the tournament consists of three initial rounds of qualifying for the knockout, the teams began to take part in one of the three phases based on the position achieved in their domestic league and the UEFA coefficient by their federation. Sixteen teams, the best teams in the national championships the most important of the continent, took direct part in the group stage without going through the preliminary rounds. The teams defeated in the third qualifying round were admitted to the UEFA Cup, while the 16 winning teams outputs could take part in the group stage, with the other 16 already admitted directly. The group stage was reduced to only one, with the reintroduction of the second round knockout.
In 2009 it was made a reform of the competition, which involved mainly the preliminary rounds. The teams admitted directly to the groups 22 are: the European champions, the top three of the three best leagues, the top two nations from 4th to 6th place in the rankings and champions of the associations between the 7th and the 12th place. The remaining ten seats are allocated through four rounds of preliminary round trip, knockout. Five places are reserved for national champions minors who face mandatory at least two qualifying rounds, as for adding a third for federations from 16th place down, and a quarter for the six smaller countries. Five other inputs only apply to the worst placed of the fifteen best leagues: in this case take place only two qualifying rounds, the first of which are excluded clubs of the five best nations.
The fifteen teams eliminated in the last two qualifying rounds can still access to the UEFA Europa League : the five eliminated in the third round are obliged to deal with the last qualifying round of the Europa League, while the ten eliminated in the fourth round access directly to the group stage.
No substantive changes to the formula of the competition proper, confirmed until 2015. They are established only minor adjustments to the calendar: the first knockout round will take place in one month (4 games per week), while from 2010 the final takes place Saturday to facilitate the influx of the public the final act of the show, in a single stadium a couple of years earlier, again in 2015, the final in Berlin for the first time will be 'held in June, the sixth day (probably for allow eventual finalists concluding their national tournament without making advances or delays).
The group stage consists of 8 groups of 4 teams eliminators and each team plays with three other twice, once at home and once away. This phase lasts from mid-September to early December. The third teams are allowed in the Europa League , while the last will be eliminated from each tournament. The top two in their group, knockout (from late February until the end of May) in the second round will play the first classified with the latter and will have home advantage for the return match. In the group stage and in the second round can not contend for regulation meetings between teams from the same nation.
The shape of the trophy as it is now known was commissioned in 1966 to 10,000 Swiss francs, and the first team to win the cup was the new Celtic Glasgow (winner in the final of 25 May 1967 in Lisbon against the ' Inter ). The shape, with special handles called big ears, was approved by the then general secretary of UEFA, Hans Bangerter , based on various proposals submitted by a specialist in Bern , Hans Stadelmann.
The finishing touches were the work of the engraver Fred Bänninger after 340 hours of work of the son of Stadelmann, Jürg. The bowl measures 62 cm high and weighs 8.5 kg. If the versions of 1973 and 1976 were broadly in line with the original of 1966 , that of 1994 varied in particular the written Coupe des clubs champions européens that became tiny capital, and back where you began to affect the results of the finals, while the current trophy, dated 2005 , bears engraved on the back the names of all the teams that have won before, and ears more graceful.
Since 1997 the original trophy is handed to the mayor of the city hosting the final, so it can be visited by the public for a month or two before the decisive. The winner of the Champions League withdrew the cup at the end of the awards ceremony, and return the trophy to the headquarters of UEFA two months before the end of the following season. UEFA delivery still a replica of the cup which is maintained by the company winning, replies that since 2009 is the same size as the original trophy, whereas previously they were climbing to 80%.
Until 2008, it was possible to retain the original trophy for teams capable of winning three consecutive or five in all, which are honored with the multiple-winner badge, introduced in the season 2000-2001 .
Only five companies hold the original trophy as well as the aforementioned crest:
Real Madrid (Spain), the first club to get the original trophy, at the request of Gabriel Hanot UEFA, after the victory in edition 1965-1966. Ajax (Netherlands), who obtained the original trophy after the third consecutive triumph in edition 1972-1973. Bayern Monaco (Germany), who obtained the original trophy after the third consecutive win in edition from 1975 to 1976.
Milan (Italy), who obtained the original trophy after winning the fifth title in edition from 1993 to 1994. Liverpool (England), last team to get the original trophy after his fifth triumph in 2004-2005.
Since 2009, the original cup, which is the sixth used views the five permanent assignments and which is in use since 2006, it is in any case to UEFA, notwithstanding the assignment of multiple-winner badge to the teams that meet the requirements.
After this change to the regulations, only one club in addition to the 5 teams defending original trophy managed Barcelona (Spain), to achieve its fifth title in edition 2014-2015.
These teams are characterized by a special emblem initially blue and become silver from 2012 , depicting the cup with stylized in the number of Champions League (and Champions Cups) won, placed on the left sleeve of the official uniform.
Edition 2004-2005 UEFA introduced the logo holders (in English title-holder logo ), to be affixed on the right sleeve of the shirt of the holder of the trophy the following season to victory. The first team to wear the logo of the holders was the port. UEFA Champions League can participate in teams who play in leagues associated with the UEFA (except those of Liechtenstein that does not organize its own championship), according to the ranking obtained during the previous season. These are supplemented by the right team titleholder.
Each nation then, brings a number of different participants depending on the difficulty of their league, calculated according to the UEFA coefficient . According to this ranking, it is decided on the number of participating teams:
from first to third nation qualify the teams ranked from 1st to 4th place,
The fourth to sixth nation qualify the teams ranked from 1st to 3rd place
from seventh to fifteenth nation qualify the teams ranked 1st and 2nd place,
beyond the sixteenth nation qualifies only the team ranked the 1st place,
The UEFA coefficient automatically determines what level a team will start competing: the first two championships, they bring 4 teams, see the top three start from round-robin , while the fourth will have to start from the playoffs Champions League, or the fourth qualifying round, in most of 2008, the nation that will host the last European Football, will be entitled to bring 4 teams, regardless of the ratio.
The next three nations sign two teams directly to the group stage, and the preliminaries; The following six federations of seats secured in the group have only one head, with a place in the preliminaries.
Other nations have to completely pass the preliminaries, with two teams the first three, and one all the others.
We already mentioned sporting merit, each club must receive special permission from their football association to participate in the Champions League, relevant to assess the adequacy of the stadium, infrastructure and financial stability.
From the stage of its E3 conference, currently underway in these moments, Sony officially announced the remake of Final Fantasy VII. The title will arrive first on PlayStation and later on other platforms currently not yet announced. The scenario will be furnished by Kazushige Nojima, the manufacturer will instead Yoshinori Kitase and Tetsuya Nomura will be the director. Stay with us to learn about all the updates and developments on waiting remake of Final Fantasy VII, now official.
Sony has announced that they are working to produce a remake of the video game Final Fantasy VII for the PlayStation 4. The announcement was made during an event Sony at E3 in Los Angeles, one of the most important fairs in the world of video games. Final Fantasy is a saga of video games produced since 1987 by the important house productions Japanese Square Enix is output in 14 official versions and has sold around 100 million copies becoming the eighth best selling videogame in history.
Final Fantasy VII was one of most popular chapters in the saga and is considered by many fans as the best version of Final Fantasy: to be thought that it would be produced an updated version to run on modern platforms. During the event, Sony yesterday was presented a short trailer for the new game, which also announces some of the people that we will work: will the producer Yoshinori Kitase and Tetsuya Nomura will be the director. The game should come out in 2017, at least initially only for PlayStation.
Final Fantasy VII is a role-playing game in Japanese published in by Square (now Square Enix ) for PlayStation , led later on PC with operating system Microsoft Windows , PlayStation and distributed digitally through the services PlayStation Network and Steam . In addition, a version for devices Android and iOS is only available in Japan through the service stream "Dive In".
Excluding spin-off , as Mystic Quest , Final Fantasy VII was the first game made in D computer graphics , with characters fully represented on the backgrounds pre-rendered , and distributed for the first time in Europe and Australia . The game also kept the same name both in Japan and in North America : Final Fantasy VI , in fact, was called Final Fantasy III in the United States of America , as the second, third and fifth title in the series there were never published. The North American version, European and Australian PlayStation was published by Sony Computer Entertainment , while the edition for PC by Eidos Interactive .
Final Fantasy VII was directed by Yoshinori Kitase, written by Kazushige Nojima , helped by Kitase, and finally produced by Hironobu Sakaguchi. The music is the result of Nobuo Uematsu, one of the most celebrated composers videogame, while the character designer of long-standing, Yoshitaka Amano , was replaced by Tetsuya Nomura, who had already designed some characters of Final Fantasy VI.
Helped by a large advertising campaign , Final Fantasy VII enjoyed suffered a huge commercial success and critical acclaim, arriving to sell more than million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling title in the series and one of the role-playing games the most common of all. It has been praised for its graphics, soundtrack and history, but criticized mainly for poor English localization and a game mode very linear and very innovative in the panorama of the series. He was retrospectively recognized as the game that popularized the genre outside of Japan, and was often added to the charts on the best video games of all time. The popularity of the title led Square Enix to produce a series of prequel and sequel under the collective name of Compilation of Final Fantasy VII .
On June , at the annual E, it was announced a remake for Playstation , released in to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the original game. The setting of the game is similar to that of Final Fantasy VI , because it is a world in which technology is much more advanced than in the first five chapters of the saga. Overall, the technological development is approximates that of an environment of science fiction with a company industrial or post-industrial.
The world of Final Fantasy VII, called by the characters of the game Planet but called retroactively Gaia, consists of three main continents. The east is home to the city of Midgar, an industrial metropolis that serves as the capital and home to the headquarters of the Shinra Electric Power Company, the world government of Gaia. Other places in the eastern continent are Junon (an important military base of Shinra), Fort Condor (a fortress with a huge condor covering a Mako reactor), a ranch where you can keep and use the Chocobo and Kalm, a small city inspired medieval Europe.
The western continent hosts the Gold Saucer (an amusement park with the prison Corel below), Costa del Sol (a seaside resort), Gongaga (a small town with the remains of a destroyed reactor Mako), Nibelheim (a city It resides at the base of Mount Nibel, and one of the most important of the game from the point of view of the plot), Rocket Town (the position of the failed launch of a space rocket Shinra) and Cosmo Canyon, whose tribe stresses the importance of live in harmony with nature devoted to the welfare of the planet. Wutai, a village inspired by the pre-modern China and Japan, is located on a large island in the western continent.
The northern continent is a land mass heavily glacial, and its few settlements include Bone Village (an excavation site), Icicle Inn (a ski resort), the legendary City of the Ancients and the Northern Crater, where takes place the famous climax of game. There are also places accessible only through the submarine , as a transport plane sank Shinra.
The nine main playable characters in Final Fantasy VII are Cloud Strife , a mercenary asocial who claims to be a former SOLDIER first class; Barret Wallace , the leader of a movement against the Shinra called AVALANCHE; Tifa Lockhart, a girl martial artist and member of AVALANCHE, and childhood friend of Cloud; Aerith Gainsborough, a young flower girl persecuted by the Turks (special operations unit of the Shinra) from an early age; Red XIII, a wise creature lion victim of experiments Shinra; Cait Sith, a robotic cat that rides a doll Moguri giant animated; Cid Highwind, a pilot whose dream of becoming the first man to reach space not has ever made; Yuffie Kisaragi, a young ninja and skillful thief; and Vincent Valentine, a former member of Shinra's Turks, victim of terrible experiments that took place years before the start of the game. The main antagonist of Final Fantasy VII's Sephiroth, a former member of SOLDIER who first appeared several years after what everyone considered his death.
The characters were designed by Tetsuya Nomura. Unlike Final Fantasy VI, whose cast lacks a real hero, Cloud was chosen as the main character in the seventh chapter from the beginning of the development of the game.
The cast of Final Fantasy VII was critically acclaimed. The website GameSpot says that despite not treated each of unique or original, were the interactions of Cloud and his group, and in particular with Sephiroth, which made the story truly special. Thierry Nguyen of Computer Gaming World states that the stories and developments of the heroes were very strong, finally claiming that the game can bring about a deep bond between players and characters. Simon Parkin of Eurogamer appreciated the clear motivations of the characters, their desires and their defects. RPGFan generally praised the cast, especially Cloud, Tifa and Sephiroth, although they seem to describe certain stereotypes and archetypes unoriginal RPG Japanese. Sephiroth was appointed by IGN for the best character in the game, cloud while the most popular of the entire series.
The game begins with Cloud Strife, a mercenary group that helps the eco-terrorist AVALANCHE in an attack against the Mako reactors surrounding the city of Midgar, ruled by Shinra. Barrett, the leader of the movement, believed that the energy that Mako reactors consume is actually the lifeblood of the planet, and the Shinra is then slowly killing Gaia. Although the first mission is successful, AVALANCHE is ambushed next to the reactor and, due to an explosion, Cloud rushes to the slums of Midgar. Is found by Aerith, and prompted by the arrival of the Turks, who are going to capture the young flower girl, Cloud defends the assault and escape together. Meanwhile, Shinra detects the position of the hiding of AVALANCHE in the sector and, consequently, destroys it, killing the entire population of that area.
The Turks are also able to capture Aerith, who turns out to be the last survivor of the Cetra, an ancient tribe that was able to enter into perfect harmony with the planet. President Shinra and Professor Hojo believe that Aerith is the key to reach the Promised Land, a land which the company sees as an abundant source of Mako. Cloud, Barret and Tifa infiltrate Shinra in order to save Aerith, and during the search for the girl on the different floors of the enormous structure, discovered a specimen simply Jenova. Accompanied by Red XIII, the group manages to save Aerith, but are immediately captured by the Turks and imprisoned inside the building. In the morning, however, the group finds their open cells and discovers that much of the staff, including President Shinra, was killed by the legendary soldier who all believed dead: Sephiroth, who also stole the original Jenova.
While the president's son, Rufus Shinra, assumes total control of the company, the group leaves Midgar and pursues Sephiroth across the planet. They meet several allies, including Cait Sith, a robotic cat that will prove to be secretly controlled by Turk repentant Tuesti Reeve, Yuffie Kisaragi (an adolescent ninja), Vincent Valentine (former member of the Turks) and Cid Highwind, a pilot smoker. Arrived at the Temple of the Ancients, the group meets Sephiroth, who finally reveals his plan: if the world is significantly damaged, the flow Vitale ( Lifestream ) meets in an attempt to heal the wound. Sephiroth intends to use the legendary Black Materia to launch the fearsome spell "Meteor", with the aim of causing huge damage to the planet, which will allow it to merge with the energy Mako and be reborn as a god.
The group initially unable to stop him getting the Black Materia, but Sephiroth manipulates Cloud, who does not hesitate to give him the legendary magic ball. As the group takes up the meeting, Aerith decides to leave and stop Sephiroth alone, coming to the Forgotten Capital. The group follows, and Aerith intent is to pray for the help of the planet, but is immediately killed by Sephiroth, in a scene from GameSpot named "the most shocking moment of video games. After a clash with Jenova, Cloud and his allies continue to pursue Sephiroth to the North Crater. During the journey, they discover that Jenova is actually an interstellar creature that crashed on the planet about , years before the events of the game, and whose intention was to fully control Gaia.
In an attempt to defend itself, the planet created giant monsters called Weapon. While the majority of humans fled, the Cetra managed to defeat Jenova and bury his remains. Some decades before the start of the adventure, these remains were unearthed by Professor Gast, a researcher of Shinra. Jenova exchanging for a Cetra, Gast attempted to clone the creature, assisted by Hojo. Shortly after, however, Gast decided to abandon the project, while Hojo managed to successfully exploit the unborn child assistant Lucrecia: that child was just Sephiroth.
About years before the present, during a Shinra mission in Nibelheim, Sephiroth found its terrible origins meeting of the parties failed tests Hojo. Mistakenly believing that he and Jenova were the Cetra, he decided to start his famous revenge burning down the entire village of Nibelheim. Cloud and Tifa confronted him during the fire, after which Sephiroth vanished completely, and then make its appearance in the present, where the group now plans to kill it for good.
When Cloud and the others reach the crater North to avenge Aerith, Sephiroth had come to know that one of the many clones created by Jenova Hojo. Finally reaching the legendary SOLDIER, who in the meantime has absorbed all other clones in order to instigate a Reunion to Jenova cells, Sephiroth manipulates Cloud once again to be helped during the launch of "Meteor", and then say that the boy is actually a clone of Sephiroth, showing him memories of Nibelheim incident with a soldier haired blacks in place of Cloud. Sephiroth finally able to invoke "Meteor", and thus activates the Weapon of the planet, and during an earthquake Cloud is separated from his companions and falls into the flow Vitale.
The rest of the group and the Turks manage to escape on an airship, the Highwind, where heroes are arrested by Shinra. Since "Meteor" is getting closer to Gaia, the Weapon attack humanity in an attempt to return more power to the Mako can flow Vitale, to help the planet. Shinra decides to protect the world's population by attacking and destroying Weapon "Meteor", a mission that cost the lives of most of the staff. Tifa, Barret and the others managed to escape, finding a catatonic Cloud in a hospital Mideel. Tifa is back to help him, while the rest of the group continues the fight against Shinra. However, an attack by Ultima Weapon village precipitates Cloud and Tifa into the Flow Vitale. There, she helps him rebuild his confused memories and discover the truth about his past.
It turns out in fact that Cloud was never a member of SOLDIER, and that the soldier in the visions shown by Sephiroth in the North Crater was actually Zack Fair . Both, however, were present during the incident in Nibelheim, where seriously wounded Cloud Sephiroth, who managed to survive only thanks to the cells of Jenova: Zack and Cloud, however, were used by Hojo to perfect his experiments SOLDIER. Zack tried to escape with Cloud, but was killed by several Shinra soldiers. The boy then took the sword of the deceased soldier and reached Midgar: the aspirations of Cloud for SOLDIER and memories of Zack joined in, thus creating a false personality.
By accepting this, Cloud manages to recover and discover with the group that Aerith, during his last moments, he was trying to use the White Materia to cast the spell "Holy", the only way to destroy "Meteor" was about to He failed but Sephiroth has obviously stopped. The group decides to stop before all the Weapon, and defeat Hojo, who is revealed to be the father of Sephiroth. After killing the mad scientist, Cloud and others launch their final assault against Sephiroth, who was finally defeated after a series of battles.
While "Holy" is finally called, the group runs away from the crater, but it turns out that the spell can not do anything to stop "Meteor", which is already close to the planet too. Moments before impact, however, the flow Vitale intervenes and destroys "Meteor". Five hundred years later, Red XIII notes with her two puppies the ruins of Midgar, now covered with green, showing that the planet is finally cured.
Just like the previous games in the series, Final Fantasy VII has three main areas: l '"Overworld" (the world map), maps of various places accessible and screenshots of battle. The world map is a model in D graphics, with an abridged version of the fictional game environment through which the player travels on foot, riding a Chocobo, on the airship or other means of transport, like a submarine in search of villages, dungeons and cities.
In the maps of the places available, the characters are shown in a realistic environment in scale, consisting of pre-rendered backgrounds in D graphics that represent a variety of areas, such as villages or forests. Initially, the player will be able to explore only the city of Midgar, but as the story progresses you can move elsewhere in the world. This progression is largely developed through a predefined set of events triggered by the actions of the player in the game (known by the English term scripted sequences ), although they are also used numerous cinematic scenes
The battle screen is a D representation of a specific area, like the inside of a building or a cave, in which the player can control the heroes in battles with enemies controlled by the CPU . While the characters are super deformed in maps, models presented during the clashes are much more realistic. In fact, Final Fantasy VII was the first title in the series to have fully rendered models with polygons instead of sprites in D graphics. In the fight sequences the game uses the traditional system Active Time Battle (ATB), introduced in Final Fantasy IV , where you have to wait before filling a bar to give orders to the characters. Unlike previous games in the series, which allowed to use up to four or five characters in battle, Final Fantasy VII allows only three.
The growth system of the characters of Final Fantasy VII is built around the use of material, magical spheres composed of condensed Mako (the vital energy of the planet), which are inserted in the appropriate slot of weapons and armor, allowing players to customize the abilities of your group by using the characters incantations, invocations and certain special skills. However, most of the Substance based magic also decreases the physical attributes. In addition, certain types of magic balls can be combined in various ways to enhance their effects or create your own.
In this way you can use the famous invocations, be fitted in the form of matter, and each of them has a particularly elaborate animated sequence of attack. A modified version of "Attacks of Despair" from Final Fantasy VI appears in Final Fantasy VII as the "Limit Break": Each playable character has a bar that fills up whenever that takes damage from an opponent. Once filled completely, the character is able to unleash his or her "Limit Break", a fearsome special attack which generally inflicts far more damage than the normal techniques, or who helps the group in battle. A Unlike Matter, each character has its own set of "Limit Break", divided into four levels of force, except for Cait Sith , which acquires only two.
The development of Final Fantasy VII began in, immediately after the publication of the sixth chapter, and was originally designed for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, but later sent for Nintendo. However, since the cartridges of the console possessed a limited data storage space, Square finally decided to publish the game for PlayStation.
Series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi had originally designed a setting in New York in and, as such, the original script of Final Fantasy VII , which was written just by Sakaguchi, was completely different than the finished product. Tetsuya Nomura said that Sakaguchi "wanted to do something similar to a yellow . " The first part of the story, in fact, had to turn around a character named "Detective Joe", who was in search of the main characters, after the explosion of the city of Midgar. The final screenplay was written by Kazushige Nojima and Yoshinori Kitase, based on the tales of Nomura and Sakaguchi. Masato Kato made the project much later, and managed to achieve only three scenes in the game.
However, most of the staff was developing Chrono Trigger , and consequently the creation of Final Fantasy VII had to be momentarily interrupted, since the other project had become much more significant and complex. In fact, some ideas originally considered for the seventh installment in the saga were used in Chrono Trigger . Other ideas, such as the setting in New York and the character of the witch Edea, remained unused until Parasite Eve and Final Fantasy VIII , respectively.
Development continued in, and required a commitment by some artists and programmers, using the software PowerAnimator and Softimage D. This was the game more expensive in those days, with a budget of about million dollars. Kitase feared that the saga would be left behind if he had presented to the players a full D graphics, and the production began after the completion of a short demo made using characters and settings of Final Fantasy VI , developed using the Silicon Graphics (SGI) in order to demonstrate the expressive potential of their D polygonal graphics.
This experiment led the development team to integrate the mechanisms shown in the demo project in Final Fantasy VII , at that time intended to Nintendo . However, only the format CD-ROM was able to meet the needs of the project, and the seventh in the series was finally directed to the PlayStation.
For the first time since he was working in Final Fantasy for the Nintendo Entertainment System , Sakaguchi considered the game mode a priority on the story, because the main concern of the development team was just the implementation of D graphics. The transition from D Final Fantasy VI to D designed by developers was accompanied by greater concentration on a more realistic presentation.
While additional data storage capacity and computer graphics allowed the development team to create more than minutes of full motion video (FMV), this innovation also increased the remarkable contrast between the different models of the characters during the battles, exploration the map of the world and the cutscenes in D. Kitase described the whole thing an inevitable "daunting task". The renowned character designer Yoshitaka Amano Series was involved in the opening of exhibitions and art workshops in France and New York: what I greatly limited his involvement in the game . Consequently, Tetsuya Nomura was appointed by Sakaguchi as the substitute of love, while the latter undertook the design of the map of the world.
Many of the designs of Nomura underwent various changes during development. For example, the design of the original cloud was to be that of a boy haired blacks and courts, so as to constitute a sort of contrast to the long, flowing silver hair Sephiroth. Nomura, however, feared that the masculinity would have been unpopular among fans of the series, and so he decided to characterize hairstyle Cloud making it sharp and bright. Vincent saw many changes, moving from the role of research to that of a detective, a chemist and finally to a former member of the Turks with a tragic past. Nomura also indicated that the fighting style of Cid Highwind is similar to that of the class of the Dragon of Final Fantasy III and Final Fantasy V: this because her last name is the same as the previous two Dragons in the saga, Ricard Highwind of Final Fantasy II and Kain Highwind from Final Fantasy IV .
The music of Final Fantasy VII was composed, arranged and produced by Nobuo Uematsu . Instead of songs and sound effects recorded for the game, Uematsu decided to opt for the audio sequenced the console (similar to MIDI), using the sound chip inside the PlayStation. Final Fantasy VII was the second game of the series, after Final Fantasy VI with Aria di Mezzo character, to include a song with digitized voices: One-Winged Angel , the famous music track audible during the final battle against Sephiroth. Uematsu said that the soundtrack of Final Fantasy VII evokes strong feeling of realism, which prevented him to compose music crazy and exorbitant the sixth chapter, the favorite of Uematsu.
In early August of, an album entitled Square's Preview was released in Japan along with the game Tobal No., containing the first playable demo of Final Fantasy VII and previews of other upcoming titles, like Bushido Blade and SaGa Frontier . The demo allowed players to move in the first screens of Midgar. Of course you may notice a number of differences compared to the original game, such as the presence of Aerith as a playable character in the early moments of the adventure. In addition, the possibility of using the invocations had not yet been implemented.
The game in North America was preceded by a massive advertising campaign of three months, which generally consisted of short TV spots on major networks, a commercial theater, a promotion with Pepsi and numerous print ads in renowned publications such as Rolling Stone , Details , Spin , Playboy and comic books published by Marvel and DC Comics . were made several additions to the gameplay of the North American version, as a system of exchange of matter less complex, arrows indicating the exit from the screens scanner and a cutscene additional, thus anticipating the publication in Japan of Final Fantasy VII International, a version of the game with many improvements from the Japanese edition of. On December, this version was published again as part of the package Final Fantasy th Anniversary Ultimate Box.
In , Final Fantasy VII has been ported to PCs running Windows. This new edition features a graphic cleaner and a translation as faithful to the original Japanese, as well as a game mode correct its many flaws of the PlayStation version. However, the PC version suffers in turn of several other bugs and glitches , including errors in the view of some sequences.
In addition to the PlayStation and PC versions, Final Fantasy VII also enjoys an issue for the service PlayStation Network , published in Japan April, in North America June, and in Europe and Australia on June. The Japanese version is International. Final Fantasy VII for the PlayStation Network has been downloaded more than , times during the first two weeks, making it the videogame service spread faster.
Square Enix announced that another edition of the PC game would be published on August of that year. This new release features new trophies and numerous features to facilitate customization and character growth. It was published by DotEmu, and is available exclusively through the official store of Square Enix.
Finally, Final Fantasy VII was released on digital distribution platform Steam for Windows PC on July.
It was announced at Sony and Square-Enix Los Angeles, the remake of Final Fantasy VII for the next-generation console, but mainly come out' as a "First Out" on consoles PlayStation . Release date unknown. E 'can see the official trailer on YouTube. The game's soundtrack was released as a four-disc set on February. A single-disc album of selected songs from the original soundtrack and three tracks arranged, entitled Final Fantasy VII Reunion Tracks , was published separately. Piano Collections Final Fantasy VII, composed of pieces arranged for piano, was published in.
Since the publication of the original PlayStation, Final Fantasy VII has received positive reviews from critics, and is now considered one of the game's most important role of all time. It has been described by the magazine GameFan as probably the best game ever created, a quote that was placed on the back cover of the game. GameSpot and IGN praised particularly the revolutionary graphics, soundtrack and storyline. Critics have also praised the conversion of the game for Windows, but criticizing its picture quality much shorter than the original version, and noting too many problems and sound installation. PC Gamer , however, stated that, despite many flaws, Final Fantasy VII is a winner as well on PC.
However, Final Fantasy VII is also considered by critics one of the most overrated games of the gaming history, because of the defects often forgotten by passionate supporters. GameSpot, in fact, criticized the high linearity of the game, while RPGamer noticed the numerous grammatical errors of the North American localization.
He received numerous awards Game of the Year in by various websites and magazines. He managed to win awards Adventure Game Console of the Year and Role Playing Game Console of the Year by Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. In the ranking of Electronic Gaming Monthly's Top Games all time, reached the th position. In one of IGN of the greatest RPGs ever, Final Fantasy VII came eleventh, and was called a game full of unforgettable memories and irreplaceable.
The same site named the death of Aerith the best time playing video games. The magazine Game Informer , however, places it in fifteenth place in its list of the best games of all time, and the tenth in a updated version. In the ranking of the best GamesRadar titles in the series, came in fifth, and the second in that of IGN. GameFAQs named him the best video game of all time. Leviathyn, ranking eleventh in the ranking of the greatest games ever.
Since the publication of the original PlayStation, Final Fantasy VII has received positive reviews from critics, and is now considered one of the game's most important role of all time. It has been described by the magazine GameFan as probably the best game ever created, a quote that was placed on the back cover of the game. GameSpot and IGN praised particularly the revolutionary graphics, soundtrack and storyline. Critics have also praised the conversion of the game for Windows, but criticizing its picture quality much shorter than the original version, and noting too many problems and sound installation. PC Gamer, however, stated that, despite many flaws, Final Fantasy VII is a winner as well on PC.
However, Final Fantasy VII is also considered by critics one of the most overrated games of the gaming history, because of the defects often forgotten by passionate supporters. GameSpot, in fact, criticized the high linearity of the game, while RPGamer noticed the numerous grammatical errors of the North American localization.
He received numerous awards Game of the Year in by various websites and magazines. He managed to win awards Adventure Game Console of the Year and Role Playing Game Console of the Year by Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. In the ranking of Electronic Gaming Monthly's Top Games all time, reached the position. In one of IGN of the greatest RPGs ever, Final Fantasy VII came eleventh, and was called "a game full of unforgettable memories and irreplaceable.
The same site named the death of Aerith the best time playing video games. The magazine Game Informer , however, places it in fifteenth place in its list of the best games of all time, and the tenth in a updated version. In the ranking of the best GamesRadar titles in the series, came in fifth, and the second in that of IGN. GameFAQs named him the best video game of all time. Leviathyn, ranking eleventh in the ranking of the greatest games ever.
ipl fantasy cricket league cricinfo