You have control of the ball and you know that in this instant, all eyes are on you. You feel the sweat drip between your shoulder blades as you dribble with frenzied finesse past one defender, then another. The goal is within your reach now, and you realize that beyond the skill of the goalkeeper and within the embrace of the net lies victory, glory and acclaim. As your muscles tense in preparation for the all-important kick, the roar of the crowd and the flash of cameras fade to the background. All thoughts of glory dim until the instinct that makes you a champion kicks in and your leg swings forward with precision and force. The ball jumps from your cleat and seems to fly through the air in slow motion, gliding towards that legend-creating goal. Will history be made — or will the keeper dash your hopes of glory?Step on the pitch and compete against more than 15,000 of the world's elite players and more than 500 of the most renowned clubs on the globe in FIFA Soccer 13. Handle the ball with real-life skill thanks to the Complete Dribbling feature, and attack the ball in new ways with the Attacking Intelligence feature. Hone your skills to escape traps by utilizing the 1st Touch Control, which virtually eliminates the ease of near-perfect control for every player. Move the ball up the pitch efficiently with new passing options that allow you to thread a pass to a teammate just over a defender's outstretched leg or loft through-balls to teammates across the field. Immerse yourself in on- and off-the-ball battles for control thanks to the 2nd generation of the award-winning Player Impact physics engine which creates realistic player impact and collisions. Lace up your cleats and throw on your jersey, it's time to see if you've got what it takes to compete with the world's best.
Academy Award winners Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg teamed up with two all-star casts to create each of the sprawling, epic-length World War II miniseries featured in this double-header. First on the bill is 2001's Band of Brothers. Adapted from the bestseller of the same name by Stephen Ambrose, it tells the story of the U.S. soldiers assigned to Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army. This was a crack squad of some of the most gifted men in the U.S.A.F., who parachuted into France on D-Day morning, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and captured Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgarden. Stars include Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston and Matthew Settle. Next in the set is 2010's follow-up, The Pacific. It recounts the experiences of three U.S. enlistees -- Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello, Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale) and John Basilone (Jon Seda), as they make their way across the harrowing Pacific Theater of World War II - with stops in Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.