Finally growing tired of the “It’s the 2010th version of FIFA” gags, EA’s latest edition of the foot-to-ball game is just FIFA 10. Which is just a lie, innit? Anyway, there’s a demo available. I find this very interesting. It’s very interesting because the English/French/Italian/German/Spanish demo is 2.15Gb in size, while the Russian/Czech/Hungary/Polish demo is 1.72Gb in size. Which means, by my calculation, Spain is .43Gbs in size, which I’ll send off to the atlas people so they can add it to their files. And there’s some footage of the game in action below for those who are beneath their quota of staring-at-men-in-shorts for the day.
It’s hardly Blood Bowl, is it?the
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@Ian:
well, it was one of my first PC games I bought for my Pentium 133, so there MIGHT be some nostalgic value to it :)
*forgive me the americanized tenses…*
It was when I last played at least. Then again that was a while ago, so things may have changed. I won’t say anything about using Metacritic to prove a game’s value over another though, it’ll lead us down a road from which there is no turning back.
I’m pretty sure the trailer attached to this post actually has nothing to do with Fifa 10 on the PC. That’s the 360/PS3 version which is a completely different game altogether and should be pointed out as such by dedicated PC followers such as yourselves.
It’s really rather shameful of EA to year after year willfully mislead its audience by bundling a bunch of wildly different games under the same name.
@Schaulustiger – I can tell English isn’t your first language, because you apologise for a post that is probably better written than any other on the site.
I gather that in the last couple of years, Fifa has apparently reclaimed the title from Pro Evo, as hard as that would have been to imagine a few iterations ago. I’d give it a decco, but recently demos seem to have ballooned to ridiculous proportions. Never mind.
Meh, you can keep your FIFAs and your Pro Evos, I’ll stick with SWOS on WinUAE thanks.
@ Helio
It’s pretty easy to fathom, footballers, like actors, are able to provide a small entertainment service to millions, and as such are able to generate far more cash than those who provide a vital service to a few.
It’s easy to persuade 40,000 people to spend £10 seeing a 90 minute football match, but harder to persuade the ten people a GP can see in that time to part with £40,000 ( I know they aren’t the real numbers, it was just easier that way).
It’s unfortunate of course, but it’s always going to happen, it’s probably best just to get over it and tax the buggers incessantly.
Pags – It’s pretty well accepted that Fifa got competitive with Pro Evo around Fifa 08, and moved clearly ahead with FIFA 09, which was fantastic. Good Edge article about it a few months ago.
However, of the ‘08 games once you got used to the control system the Wii version WAS superior. Didn’t like FIFA or PES that year.
But yeah, PES wasn’t superior last year and it hasn’t been blatantly superior for a few years.
Isn’t that trailer of the 360/PS3 version, as opposed to the PC/PS2 one?
I know RPS really isn’t very much into football, but journalism is journalism and you guys should be more careful, especially when the two versions of the game are so different.
100,000 doctors – average take home salary over £100k
5,000 professional footballers – average basic wage:
Premiership £676,000
Championship £195,750
League One £67,850
League Two £49,600
Average career for doctors: c. 25 to 65 (40 years)
Average career for professional footballer: c. 19 to 34 (15 years)
I’d say that doctors come out ahead.
I feel this needs to be said: I watched that trailer while listening to ‘Everything Back But You’ by Avril Lavigne, and it really really worked.
Hope That Helps,
– SCdF
downloaded it, played it, compared to the 360 version it is butt ugly
Red till im dead. Liverpool FC