By Alec Meer on May 29th, 2010 at 2:00 pm.
Just in time for the world cup – what an enormous coincidence – EA have flung open the doors to their browser-based, semi-casual rethink of FIFA. I yammered about that here, and you can sign up for it here. Or just stare at the site’s mildly frightening digitisation of Wayne ‘the kid from Bully’ Rooney.
29/05/2010 at 14:21 Brumisator says:
Is this made in Unity?
29/05/2010 at 17:49 DrGonzo says:
I think it’s Tiger Woods that was made using Unity.
29/05/2010 at 15:00 Jimbobb says:
Doesn’t look like it. Its not compatible with Chrome and on top of the EA/Fifa firefox plugin you need, there’s about 1gb of files to download before you can play.
Kinda stretches the definition of browser games…
29/05/2010 at 18:54 strangelingo says:
It runs on modified FIFA 08 or 09 PC engine and yeah, it doesn’t have anything to do with browsers ‘cept clicking PLAY button on their website.
30/05/2010 at 23:34 Paul B says:
Yep, you can run the game standalone, but then have to enter your e-mail and password to get started. If you log-in using the web-site, you don’t need to enter your details.
As to the game, it’s a pleasant enough way to spend 8 minutes of your time (which is how long a game lasts). Though, if you don’t have a gamepad, you have to use the mouse which is slightly un-intuitive. Haven’t played it enough to decide whether it will fill that casual-game-sized-gap in my collection, though.
29/05/2010 at 15:17 Frye says:
Nope, they would at least mention it on the support forum and it won’t work on Chrome.
Thanks for the tip, i like EA betas.
29/05/2010 at 22:07 Freudian Trip says:
I saw the title, Fifa Online and got really pumped and then I realised it was just Fifa… Online. And what I really wanted was basically Football Manager but I get to control the players but then it’s determined by a skill at playing the matches rather than a tactical, managerial skill. Which made me realise I don’t need any more football games.
29/05/2010 at 23:23 Vadermath says:
Meh, I was never really into football games.
30/05/2010 at 09:24 Metalfish says:
I feel the same, but I have a soft spot for sensi (clones). I think heavily abstracting or simplifying a real world sport often results in a superior computer game.
29/05/2010 at 23:54 Rosti says:
Best music reference in an RPS post EVAR!, there. Eng-ger-land!
30/05/2010 at 05:23 BeamSplashX says:
This doesn’t look like it’s one-on-one, sadly.
30/05/2010 at 13:15 LewieP says:
Football games are pong clones.
30/05/2010 at 21:40 Cassette Kids says:
Please fix the link to the beta. You still have your session id in it.
31/05/2010 at 03:07 trillex says:
Why am I reminded of this quote:
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
31/05/2010 at 12:06 Chris says:
So its not a browser based game at all really. I guess its a PC only game which uses some sort of browser novelty.