2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Review

By Tom Bramwell Published 23 April, 2010

It's up for grabs now.

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The World Cup may only come around once every four years, but when it comes to the associated videogame there's usually a sense of over-familiarity. EA Sports' FIFA games are the best football titles out there at the moment, but with updates already arriving annually, spin-off games specific to international tournaments are a bit like the Premier League's aborted "39th game" plan - an idea that seems to suit the stakeholders primarily, with only token concern for the fans.

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa hopes to change that. As a World Cup game, it's defined to some extent by what it doesn't have (300 domestic clubs, most obviously), but EA Sports has compensated by drawing up several interesting and varied game modes, and uses the legendary status of World Cup shoot-outs as an excuse to rethink penalties.

Most importantly, it tweaks things on the pitch. Goalkeepers stand their ground rather than charging suicidally out of goal, and there are myriad interesting deflections to contend with, so it's harder to pass your way through midfield. Passing may prove divisive - there seems to be more "error" than before - but then aerial passing is now a practical aspect of attack, which is welcome. The referees have also calmed down, rarely blowing for harmless shoulder barges as they did in FIFA 10.

There are still weaknesses and potential exploits (when through on goal it's quite easy to move to one side of the goalkeeper and roll the ball into the opposite corner, and crosses from the by-line always seem to swing out of play), but new animations, tweaks to ball movement and a faster pace mean that World Cup is distinct from FIFA 10 without abandoning its best features.

'2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa' Screenshot 1

Clive Tyldesley and Andy Townsend are every bit as quotably rubbish as Martin Tyler and Andy Gray. "John Terry can't find a man!" Indeed.

Most fans' first port of call will be the World Cup tournament itself. There's something jarring about new commentary duo Clive Tyldesley and Andy Townsend eulogising South African football stadiums they have presumably never visited, but the ticker tape, gorgeous lighting conditions and cutaways to anxious managers on the touchline and dancing fans make the most of the licence.

Commenting on EA Sports' slick presentation used to be a backhanded compliment, but in this case it's deserved. The result centre between matches enhances the feeling of continuity, and having latest scores filter through from other group games while you play is another nice touch. From naming your squad to lifting the cup, the ritual emphasises the right details and makes it easy to suspend your disbelief.

Not convinced? There are practical considerations too, like the way the game tracks form. For example, if Wayne Rooney begins the World Cup injured and the mighty Peter Crouch scores a few goals in his absence, it may suit you to stick with the little fellow even when Rooney is declared fit, as the Spurs and England striker's form may give him the edge.

The World Cup mode plays out with traditional control of the whole team, switching between players when you want, but Captain Your Country mode is closer to FIFA 10's Be A Pro and Clubs modes. You and up to three friends choose specific players to control and work together in the hope that your individual performances will catch the manager's eye and secure one of you the armband.

The game is supposed to acknowledge positioning, team play and individual skill by adding or removing points from your running total, but it often does things that make no football sense, like marking you down for an incomplete pass because your brilliant back-post cross eluded a team-mate.

However, there's undeniable satisfaction in combining to undo a tough defence and seeing those points totals totting up, and in some respects this is the best mode in the game, because playing together towards a long-term goal heightens the fun and drama. You can import a custom pro from FIFA 10 for this mode, too, and when one of you does become captain you gain the ability to direct other aspects of the team.

Online, the World Cup offering is comparable to FIFA's Interactive Leagues system, building up a nation's ranking over a succession of games, while regular ranked matches now use a promotion and relegation model, awarding points for wins and draws over subsequent matches. The underlying tech appears unchanged, however, suggesting that @FIFAQuitters will have to keep fighting the good fight.

Elsewhere, the single-player Story of Qualifying mode mixes full-squad and single-player scenarios to good effect, plunging you into dramatic circumstances - the Ireland vs. France playoff just after Thierry Henry's infamous handball, for instance - and inviting you to write your own legend. Apparently EA can introduce new scenarios quite easily, too, so we should see some contextual updates during the World Cup itself.

Drama was a watchword for the development team judging by the wholesale revamp of penalties, which now place greater emphasis on timing and judgement as opposed to luck. Spend a bit of time on the practice pitch investigating how the power bar works, how to use the stutter step and when and for how long you need to angle the left stick to bury the ball in the side netting, and the results will be there for all to see. Whether you can do it all in the heat of the moment is another thing.

'2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa' Screenshot 2

Story of Qualifying mode is a great way to smother an afternoon in reflected glory.

The learning curve on penalties is steep enough that people will be caught out by it initially, but 2010 FIFA World Cup makes concessions elsewhere, with a new two-button "Dad Pad" control scheme that does most of the thinking on your behalf, leaving you with little to worry about beyond running around, passing and shooting.

The idea is to make it easier for newcomers to play against experienced players, and to some extent it works, as Dad Padders simply aren't allowed to make basic mistakes in defence, and a lot of pass selection is automated. We can probably expect to see it again, although a refined version that allows you to gradually expose yourself to more difficulty might be a superior long-term option in FIFA 11.

Whoops, we've gone and mentioned FIFA 11. EA Sports' next "proper" football game could be as little as five months away, and is likely to absorb all the best things 2010 FIFA World Cup does on the pitch and surround them with more modes, features and playable clubs than ever before. It's not the World Cup developers' fault that their game is sandwiched between annual updates, but that doesn't entitle their corporate overlords to a free ride.

2010 FIFA World Cup isn't a cynical release, at least, but it was always doomed to be obsolete within months, and by that token it's hard to offer more than a guarded recommendation - even though those who do make the investment will probably enjoy their footballing summer more than the numpties we're sending to South Africa.

8 / 10

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Comments (69) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • harzo #1 2 years ago

    Kinda what I expected... enjoyed the demo but will wait until FIFA 11, its usually out a good bit before Christmas.

  • Lionheart #2 2 years ago

    Wow... for £39.99... can I really justify this... OH GO ON THEN :) cheers EG

  • absinthe #3 2 years ago

    Why does FIFA have to impact on this review?
    Clearly this game is better than FIFA, but because it's not FIFA it scores less.
    How is that objective?

    It should be left to the individual to decide if they want to spend the money, that shouldn't take a point off the review score.

  • SwashbucklingStuff #4 2 years ago

    Multiplayer Captain your Country sounds good, one thing I would have loved to do in FIFA 10 is co-op Be a Pro with a friend's footballer.

    Better keepers, crisper shots and more responsive controls will make a big difference but I might have to wait for a price drop before buying this...

    Having said that I'm probably going to get Super Street Fighter IV on day 1 and the similarities with this are quite similar apart from one thing - FIFA is a full price game, SSIV is not. I've just anwered my own question.

    Edited by 1 at 23/04/10 @ 09:11

  • OnlyMe #5 2 years ago

    Heh, I traded in two obsolete games (COD4, which I tried to enjoy but just couldn't) and NHL 2k10 (just a really bad hockey game which I got really cheap from Play.com), and got this on pre-order for 1 penny (you use pennies in the UK, right? I paid 1 NOK, and 1 pound is approx. 10 NOK). Loved the demo. PES2011 needs to be something very special if it's going to drive me away from FIFA 11 this autumn.

  • Zebula77 #6 2 years ago

    I sincerely hope there's an option to turn off all of those in-between cutscenes of the audience and the managers. Those became seriously intrusive after only two matches in the demo. :p

  • woodyrulesok #7 2 years ago

    Is the headline writer a Gooner?

  • Emth #8 2 years ago

    £40 is just far too much to let me consider thi

  • andijames #9 2 years ago

    @Zebula77

    There is :)

  • siro #10 2 years ago

    The good thing is that this time, the world cup game can be updated after the actual team rosters were published and even while the cup. In the past, you had the wrong players on the team which really put me off these games completely.

  • metalangel #11 2 years ago

    Didn't know about the Dad Pad thing. While not really into football, I still had fun with FIFA games in the past (World Cup 98 and FIFA 99) but have found I don't get on with the controls in the more recent EA Sports games.

  • Zomoniac #12 2 years ago

    The underlying tech appears unchanged, however, suggesting that @FIFAQuitters will have to keep fighting the good fight.

    That's all I needed to hear to guarantee not buying a FIFA game for the first time in years. I'm not playing through 7 online games as San Marino trying to get an achievement, to get quit on in the final and have to start the whole thing again. Until they fix the quits not counting as a win fiasco I am off FIFA.

  • jmcflash #13 2 years ago

    "if Wayne Rooney begins the World Cup injured"

    TOUCH WOOD EUROGAMER!!

  • Big-Swiss #14 2 years ago

    perfect! being a PES junkie, i will get this for the world cup feeling, and then PES2011 again. perfect!

    on the side, does it have trophys and achievements?

  • Mark1412 #15 2 years ago

    Considering every single 360 game has achievements and FIFA 09/10 had trophies I'm going to go with... yes.

  • Thornhillboy #16 2 years ago

    Hoorah! I can pretend Wales have a chance of ever reaching a World Cup again!

    Actually, thanks god I can actually play as Wales following them being 'dropped' from most normal Fifa games.

  • Zomoniac #17 2 years ago

    Oh, and there's another reason I'm not buying, expressed clearly here, more eloquently than I could ever put it myself.

  • mashk #18 2 years ago

    Should have been released at a budget price or as DLC.

  • Evolution #19 2 years ago

    @woodyrulesok

    Thomaaaaas! Right at the end!

  • Bremenacht #20 2 years ago

    Rooney looks like a L4D escapee in that picture.

  • swissorc #21 2 years ago

    It's stunts like this that have stopped EA shedding their poor image of the past entirely especially with Ubisoft quickly become the new "man" to stick it to. I don't care how good this game is. I didn't and refused to buy fifa 10 for the same reason. Fifa 09 has lasted me well over the last 2(ish) years for my football fix a new game every two years is all I will buy until they shed this yearly update crap. I mean I know it has been said to death and I know the game is probably good but come on! 3 games in 2 years this is exactly the sort of crap the apple are pulling with the minor updates to each incarnation to the iphone drip feeding the public minor improvements at a premium price to pay for their massive department (read dick) heads huge quarterly bonus.
    Rant over.
    Peace.
    Edited by 1 at 23/04/10 @ 10:25

  • HandOfBeadle #22 2 years ago

    "Passing may prove divisive - there seems to be more error than before"

    You mean, more than none??

    Certainly in the demo there seems to be next to no error. I'm finding semi-assisted passing to be more or less identical to assisted in accuracy, except with better distinction between one passing target and another. It (the lack of passing depth and general simultaion gameplay) is something EA have said they'll be working on extensively for FIFA 11, I'm glad to say.

    WC2010 is comfortably better than FIFA 10 - you can left stick dribble past defenders now (a massive plus point as it should encourage people online to make more use of their midfielders rather than opt for 6-0-4 formations as in FIFA 10), passing physics feel much more convincing, shooting feels more menacing, the likes of Xavi feel more useful than in FIFA 10 (though without passing accuracy making a difference how can you truly represent Xavi, Fabregas, Scholes etc?)... However the defensive problems still exist, pressuring is still favoured over holding your team shape, passing is still inch perfect and challenging for the ball is still 1 v 1 so you don't have several people trying to get their head on a cross. This particular problem can mean that the game might choose the wrong defender to try and clear a cross, leaving your accurately placed defender unable to contest the aerial ball and letting their striker get a free header in.

    On that note, I'm amazed that so many FIFA 10 reviews (pretty much all of them) completely failed to notice the standout issues with pingpong passing, or mental defensive positioning (fullbacks running 10 yards further back than your defensive line to play even Pippo Inzaghi onside? Centrebacks standing 6 yards off of strikers inside the penalty area, allowing them to receive a pass and turn to tap in unchallenged?), or shooting exploits, or scoring free kicks being easier than kick-offs, etc etc. Even this review pretty much stops talking about the actual footballing gameplay after a paragraph or two.

    It's not that FIFA 10 is awful at all - while seriously flawed, it's the one FIFA title that actually shows how the series could obliterate PES with the right guidance. It does make you worry when you can spot serious issues within a week's play while 15-20 of the world's best games review sites/mags don't mention any of them once. It does leave the impression for those of us who are hardcore football game fans that standard games sites are about as informative on this topic as FHM or Nuts.

    Edited by 1 at 23/04/10 @ 10:49

  • conchis #23 2 years ago

    I'm curious why there's no mention of the coop camera. This game clearly plays much better than FIFA 10, especially in coop. And the new cam plays a huge role in that. It's probably the best feature of the game.

  • chasejamie #24 2 years ago

    HandofBeadle, those are the reasons I find it hard to play Fifa 10 without wanting to scream, and why I prefer Pro Evo still. But shove all the controls to manual and add some dynamic camera view and it turns into a different game, much better and a riot if your playing another human player.

  • Zomoniac #25 2 years ago

    I'm curious why there's no mention of the coop camera. This game clearly plays much better than FIFA 10, especially in coop. And the new cam plays a huge role in that. It's probably the best feature of the game.

    That camera was in Euro 2008, they just inexplicably took it out.

  • Acrid #26 2 years ago

    @Lionheart "Wow... for £39.99... can I really justify this... OH GO ON THEN :) cheers EG"

    I sincerely hope this is sarcasm, though I believe it isn't

  • swissorc #27 2 years ago

    fair play mickey each to their own. I personally don't care about online. Haven't ever got into it in a big way. Not played much since GRAW2 lost all it's community. GOW2 was ok but I just can't stick with it and Forza 3 is ok but again only go online to download cars really.

    spelling
    Edited by 1 at 23/04/10 @ 11:01

  • jambo74 #28 2 years ago

    @OnlyMe

    So basic math says you paid 10 pennies.

  • jambo74 #29 2 years ago

    "if Wayne Rooney begins the World Cup injured"

    We can only hope.

  • craigm #30 2 years ago

    "Rooney looks like a L4D escapee in that picture"
    that's because Rooney looks like a L4D escapee in real life

  • Trigga_Tybalt #31 2 years ago

    will this be cheap in the supermarkets like FIFA 10 was? would be worth buying then..

  • feistycheese #32 2 years ago

    Hmm, so by the time this becomes obsolete in a few months, EA will probably have just gotten round to fixing the numerous bugs that always seem to get shipped with FIFA.

    Think ill wait for FIFA 11, too many games out and not enough time or money to justify a purchase.

  • Lionheart #33 2 years ago

    @ Acrid

    I'm a big Fifa and football fan. 8 is a very good score. So no it wasn't.

  • blicko #34 2 years ago

    "every bit as quotably rubbish as Martin Tyler"...

    You mean eminently quotable, then? Martin Tyler is the David Attenborough of football. He doesn't so much as comment as he does tell the story of the game. I couldn't care less about Andy Gray, but this is ignorance in the extreme.

  • Lionheart #35 2 years ago

    Can you 2 player co-op on Live an entire World Cup?
    Edited by 1 at 23/04/10 @ 11:54

  • HandOfBeadle #36 2 years ago

    blicko, I +1'ed because I assumed that was tongue in cheek..

    I do think Tyldesley is pretty good in this, but he is a bit of an eejit. Much like the vuvuzelas, I'm expecting the full game to to have a volume control specifically for 30-secondly mentions of "that night in Barcelona".

  • IkariW #37 2 years ago

    Should have been DLC for Fifa 10 owners at £14.99 maximum.
    Buy the disc version for £24.99 maximum.
    Do a bundle at retail, Fifa 10 + WC South Africa, £39.99.

    As is, at full price, this is totally rediculous.
    Nearly as rediculous as double figures for a flying horse, or £15 for MW2 maps, some of which were just re-skins!

    I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see Publishers taking the pi$$ out of us yet again though! Just down right greedy, think about the respective amounts of money made already from Fifa/MW2/WOW.
    Now think about how much they still make, then think about some top level suit sat there rubbing his grubby little hands together because he/they are charging full price or an expensive price for very little developer work load.
    Do they really need to spam us again for this much more cash?!

    Sorry to sound so bitter, I just can't believe some people buy into it thats all.

    Well done Capcom for making Super Streetfigher 4 £24.99.... excellent.

    Ikari




  • TonyHarrison #38 2 years ago

    I'm with HandofBeadle with regards to FIFA. The only thing he didn't mention was the game breaking bugs that no reviewer picked up on in the last game. Of course they only became noticeable after playing a full season of manager mode, which would be hard to do in a 15-30 minute play through of each game mode before giving the game 9/10...

    Are there any game breaking bugs in this one? Or have we not played it long enough to notice?

  • secombe #39 2 years ago

    I really struggle to see how this can be justified as a full-price release, it's essentially FIFA 10 with gameplay tweaks and boat loads of content removed.

    I guess the sad fact is that this will still sell incredibly well, so they've no reason to do something different like making it a £24.99 release or offering it up as £15 DLC for FIFA 10 owners.

  • curtlikesmeat #40 2 years ago

    HandOfBeadie - spot on there. The Eurogamer review for Fifa 10 was woefully short on info about gameplay. The thing is with these games you need to play them a lot to notice the problems, much like an MMO, so I don't see why EG can't get someone extremely familiar with Fifa/PES to review it. I tried the demo and the main thing I noticed was that midfield is still largely useless because of 100% pressure from the CPU regardless of where you are on the pitch. I wouldn't have bought it anyway though because of EA's shit treatment of customers for 10.

  • Rodchenko #41 2 years ago

    Never understood why people get so worked up over a company deciding to release n titles of a franchise over n amount of years and call for a 2n release cycle instead. EA would be stupid to not cash in on the World Cup (or the Euro for that matter). And why should they artificially extend the release cycle of one of their annual cash cows which brings in enough money to invest in other games, which might be in development for many years?

    Also, it's not entirely guaranteed, that a game that is in development for an extra year will automatically be twice as good as one released on a yearly schedule. If it all bothers you so much or you feel ripped off, just skip a release. In the end, though, there might be the possibility that you'll have wasted two years to find out that it's still crap instead of knowing already after one (an experience I made with PES).

  • ignatiusjreilly #42 2 years ago

    EA would be stupid to not cash in on the World Cup (or the Euro for that matter). And why should they artificially extend the release cycle of one of their annual cash cows which brings in enough money to invest in other games, which might be in development for many years?

    It's not EA I take issue with, but do cash-ins deserve 8/10? That's just 1 point, on a ten point-scale, less than Portal got, or the same score as Dragon Age. Not only is it easy sales for EA, but it's easy marks from websites too.

    I know it's bad form to complain about scores, but I'll never understand that thinking.

  • msephton #43 2 years ago

    No chance. I'd have had it for 1200 points as DLC, but there's no way I'm buying it at this price, then having to go through the ball ache of setting the game up, my gameface, etc, etc.

  • BabyJesus #44 2 years ago

    Eh, maybe pick this up closer to the tournament.

  • HandOfBeadle #45 2 years ago

    ijreilly - It's still a cash-in that will get several dozens, perhaps triple digits, of hours of play time. Having said what I did before I'll still get it because the gameplay, while still too flawed in key areas to be considered a sim, is still an improvement on FIFA 10. The additional features seem like they'll be well worth my time as well. It just really annoys me that no magazines had the ability to spot gameplay flaws, nor (with the exception of 1Up) the honesty to point out how much of the game was actually broken. Thankfully the FIFA community piped up in full force, hence why WC2010 and FIFA 11 are likely to be far more polished and complete experiences.

  • Halve_ZOL #46 2 years ago

    Tried the demo, as with every Fifa game every year and it still does not play like a football game. Maybe Konami should make a WC/EC game some time.
    *Puts PES back into my console...again.

  • MrChuckles #47 2 years ago

    I'm still addicted to Ultimate Team mode on Fifa 10. Although i wish there was a much bigger single player mode, as i don't fancy going online and playing experts with their teams of Messi, Torres and Rooney...

  • THFourteen #48 2 years ago

    preordered! good review.

  • TRUTH #49 2 years ago

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  • Dave797 #50 2 years ago

    The demo is superb better than Fifa10 in terms of gamplay in almost every aspect. It's a shame these inbetween titles get marked down for being just that when in reality there is a huge amount of content in game and even more to come via free DLC. Even if it is Fifa10.5 in terms of gamplay I'm on board, after playing this there will be no going back to Fifa10.

  • absinthe #51 2 years ago

    @ HandofBeadle - very good points that need to be addressed. Drives me mad too.
    @ Eurogamer - who says the quitting is no different. The game isn't out yet, so how can you possibly put forward that statement?

  • Dogzilla #52 2 years ago

    Thomassssss!!!!!!!!!!!

  • solidSnake04 #53 2 years ago

    gameplay-wise, this game cant possibly be worse than FIFA 10. I think it should get a 9 for what it is and not for having less teams than FIFA 10. FIFA 11 shouldnt even be mentioned as its a different game for a different occasion.

  • frycrayola #54 2 years ago

    Soulwind - it's Wavin' Flag (Celebration Mix) by K'naan.

  • jambo74 #55 2 years ago

    "if Wayne Rooney begins the World Cup injured"

    We can only hope.

  • Emth #56 2 years ago

    The stupid thing is, an awful lot of people are going to ignore this because of the high price point and they'd surely make more cash selling it for £25 to alot more people while the hype is still high now, rather than having to clear the stock for £10 after the world cu

  • basiclee #57 2 years ago

    Demo was pretty good, I'd buy it to get in the World Cup mood anyway.

  • jambo74 #58 2 years ago

    "if Wayne Rooney begins the World Cup injured"

    We can only hope.

  • steagz #59 2 years ago

    i totally agree with HALVE_ZOL iv been playin pes 10 online on psn ever since it come out. FIFA does not interest me in the slightest it does not even feel like a real game of football like HALVE_ZOL said. i downloaded the world cup demo for ps3 and to be fair i think it is even worse than fifa 10

  • steagz #60 2 years ago

    these football games from EA are a lot better than they used to be. but anybody thats anybody knows that pro evo despite not being as good as in its ps2 days is still a far more realistic game

  • Daggzuk #61 2 years ago

    I have to say the ammount of people moaning about the price is laughable. It is a full game. It is not an addon or DLC. The game has been redeveloped and changed. It is for football fans who love the world cup and i can't wait to pay full price for it. I'm not waiting months till the price drops or going to moan that it costs too much. Your getting a different game to FIFA 10 and if it was DLC for FIFA 10 it would of been shocking. I'm glad they made a new game as it means they went away and made more of an effort. With DLC it is normally too similar to the previous game. I don't just want what is basically FIFA 10 with more international teams. What I want is the World Cup experience and this game will give that.

    Stop Moaning or Buy it!

  • cairbre1977 #62 2 years ago

    Does anyone find that using the annalog stick on the PS3 controller really starts to hurt your tumb. I used to play the older fifa and PES with the tumb pad but now I cant. It might be easier on the 360 because the tumb pad is moved forward on the controller but I never have played soccer games on the 360. Let me know what you guys think?

  • mattwakeman #63 2 years ago

    Brother bought and yet again I find myself becoming annoyed at a football game from EA that may look like a proper game but doesn't feel like one and certainly doesn't play like one. In a game between Oz (girlfriend is from there which still makes it a poor excuse to be them I know) and Saudi Arabia at the half the computer player had a pass completion percentage of 93. I ask you, 93%, it is just ridiculous and some of the passes you wouldn't expect Holland or Brazil to attempt let alone make. Because of this you can't defend like in real football by trying to deny space because you are just picked to death. So instead you can only ever pressure the ball and the mistakes just happen as they always do. All I want is for players to pass like they do in reality, if they are under pressure then they should be less accurate and for the countries who aren't very good to play that way rather than just being slightly weaker and slower.

    Another crap game imho; yeah the other aspects of it are quite good but this is just no different from FIFA 10 or the FIFA before that and I would imagine for the FIFA to come. But more fool me for thinking it would be any different I suppose.
    Edited by 1 at 03/05/10 @ 23:38

  • superdelphinus #64 2 years ago

    got it at the weekend

    it's a great game. long balls work properly for the first time ever in a football game too. aftertouch seems actually noticeable for the first time since sensi

    there are quite a few minor bugs relating to the commentary which give it a bit of an unfinished feel

    also i noticed that when someone i was beating quit it gave me a win

  • duckncover #65 2 years ago

    If you have this and haven't got 3 footballing mates round to play CYC, do it now! It's best if they know how football works, but you can usually carry one if you have to. I've really taken to playing Gerrard in the left midfield role, something about being involved and a bit of freedom to wander from time to time.

    Great moments: watching my friend sit out his second game from being red carded for over use of sliding tackle; beating Germany 6-0 in my first ever captaincy for my country and then passing it back to Ferdinand (you bastard!); hitting the bar, the post twice, and having 11 hots on target to finally score a scorching late minute flying volley in the the final minute.

  • duckncover #66 2 years ago

    If you have this and haven't got 3 footballing mates round to play CYC, do it now! It's best if they know how football works, but you can usually carry one if you have to. I've really taken to playing Gerrard in the left midfield role, something about being involved and a bit of freedom to wander from time to time.

    Great moments: watching my friend sit out his second game from being red carded for over use of sliding tackle; beating Germany 6-0 in my first ever captaincy for my country and then passing it back to Ferdinand (you bastard!); hitting the bar, the post twice, and having 11 hots on target to finally score a scorching late minute flying volley in the the final minute.

  • jambo74 #67 2 years ago

    "if Wayne Rooney begins the World Cup injured"

    We can only hope.

  • Xs1ght #68 2 years ago

    I have to say I like this game, i'm a devoted PES fan but I think Fifa stepped this up a bit with the player movements and the speed of play. I might need alot of convincing to stay with PES if FIFA 11 is better than this! But as if I would spend £40 on a game that depreciates 80% in 5 weeks of being released. I'll wait till the new Fifa/PES....

  • Buenos_Estente #69 2 years ago

    @jonarob - I think theres an option to turn off the "broadcast cutscenes" so that should save you one murder count