Comments on: Latest Foot-To-Ball Visualisation

By: Winterborn

Winterborn — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:21:56 +0000

@James T

Rugby gets to be football in NSW and QLD, the majority of Australians call Rugby: Rugby(or ‘the bum-sniffers’). Football is Australian Rules. Still, soccer is right.

By: McCool

McCool — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:50:28 +0000

to James T:
HE MUST HAVE A FOOT LIKE A TRACTION ENGINE!

By: caesarbear

caesarbear — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:48:14 +0000

Wow that looks horrible. Every play is just – run straight at goal, and it works. Where’s my Wii style Pro Evo on PC damnit?

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:13:34 +0000

I like how it commands you to CELEBRATE after scoring.

That quickly becomes very irritating, because it does it with every goal. I’m already celebrating, thanks, by roaring and hurling cushions at my flatmates. Why would I want to celebrate by proxy?

They have made it look rather good there. Presumably they cut out the other two hours of footage where the players spazzed the ball in random directions if they bothered to do anything at all, while the AI teammates sat around scratching and burping as the ball rolled over their feet and everyone short of the referee ran into the box.

There really needs to be a football game that’s fun to play even if you don’t just get so excited about ‘be’ing Thierry Henry or whoever that nothing else matters. Pro Wiivo is the closest thing to a decent original football game for years.

By: Pod

Pod — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:48:24 +0000

I like how it commands you to CELEBRATE after scoring.

Also, the camera is very jarring. Every change of direction causes the camera to “stutter” around. SWOS never had camera stutter, oh no….

By: Marcos Castrillon

Marcos Castrillon — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:43:18 +0000

While I apreciate the drubbing of the lesser Iberians, and I hope it becomes real this Summer, all this video managed was to remind me why I stopped playing footie games not named Football Manager.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:21:40 +0000

16 games, minimum. Taking the piss is fair enough but at least get it right. ;)

By: Myros

Myros — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:04:05 +0000

American Football …. you mean American Rugby of course.
Except with wimpy pads, wouldnt want to get hurt. And lets only play 14 games a year, wouldnt want to get tired.

Myros

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:02:09 +0000

@Ginger Yellow: While I wouldn’t go so far as to say it makes the other games redundant, there’s little doubt that once you’ve got past the this-is-utterly-wrong stage of learning the controls, the flexibility offered by the attacking system is better than anything Pro Evo or Fifa have ever managed. I’ve scored far more DIFFERENT kinds of goals with Pro Evo Wii than I did in other games where it became easier to just pump it down the wings and smack it into the box.

By: James T

James T — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:37:07 +0000

We say ’soccer’ in Australia too, because rugby gets to be ‘football’.

However…. THAT…. WAS LIQUID FOOTBALL. GOOOOOOOAL!

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:30:43 +0000

Pro Evo on Wii has made every other football game more or less redundant. Sure they can do some things better, whether it’s commentary or graphics or even game-critical things like defending, but once you’ve set up a glorious goal using Andy Gray mode you’ll never be satisfied with conventional footy games again.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:30:27 +0000

Surely you mean Blood-to-Bowl?