FIFA stars do the ironing

By Tom Bramwell Published 16 October, 2006

Comedy YouTube mo-cap japes.

Motion capture has been the backbone of animation in sports games like FIFA for years and years, but in and of itself it's incredibly boring - as you'll know if you've ever watched one of those behind-the-scenes videos they stuff around the edges of the disc as an unlockable.

478 games down the road though, someone at Electronic Arts decided to have some fun with it - and the results are a lot more enjoyable than watching Wayne Rooney cocking his leg 58 times in a row while clever men arrange ping pong balls on laptop screens.

Instead we've got Wayne Rooney going a bit mental at a punching bag and popping balloons and David Villa doing some ironing and flying over cities. You'll believe a man can fly/be paid enormous amounts of money to dress up like a surfer and do hopscotch!

The YouTube viral ads also confirm what we've long suspected - that what Brazilians have in footballing talent they lack in comedy skills, as Ronaldinho and Juninho pale next to the comedy stylings of Tabloid Wayne, who - as he often does - really leaves his mark.

Obviously the idea is to slyly encourage you to buy the game by offering a glimpse of the funny side of game development, but we imagine you're all big and clever enough not to get too bogged down in being subverted when instead you can laugh at Brazil's favourite son swinging a golf club worse than my Dad. Enjoy.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Zomoniac #1 5 years ago

    These videos are ace. They were also ace when they appeared on Xbox Live Marketplace a week ago.

  • jeff #2 5 years ago

    exactly what i was thinking

  • coojam #3 5 years ago

    I check Marketplace regularly, but nothing ever grabs my attention in the videos section unless it's game footage/trailers. If I'd have known it was this, it would have been funny hehe.

    Besides, isn't it about time we could just STREAM videos off Xbox Live rather than having to download the damn things?

  • playgen #4 5 years ago

    Now if only they could have fun and creative stuff like this in their games

  • Stormflood #5 5 years ago

    lol :D

    New to me. I never check MP for videos.

  • KennySim #6 5 years ago

    Wow! A Tom Bramwell article about football and no mention of Liverpool! Well done!

  • Moggo #7 5 years ago

    I want to see how many FIFA-related stories EG will cook-up BEFORE they get round to a fucking FIFA 07 review.

  • belziah #8 5 years ago

    it would have been nice if EA had put some of these "skills" in the 360 version

    @moggo

    I dont think they can release the review until EA have mopped up the last of the "360 owning fools" buying it.

    The 360 is an attrociuos abomination of a game(all other versions are a supposedly marked improvement).
    Edited by 1 at 16/10/06 @ 14:27

  • Jimster71 #9 5 years ago

    Yes, I think it might help if we could perform a spot of ironing before crossing the ball.

    The Rooney video is definitely the best, followed by the Ronaldinho one. The other two are a bit poor in comparison.

  • coojam #10 5 years ago

    :o Having played the demo of Fifa 07 on 360, I'd have to say it's the best Fifa I've ever played. I'm still getting Pro Evo instead like, but I was very much impressed. Shame the grass looks like a sheet of plastic.

  • anamenos #11 5 years ago

    fifa07 on xbox360 is even better from pes 6