POSTED 5/5/10


2010 FIFA WORLD CUP SOUTH AFRICA

EA Sports

Even if you don’t give a fig about soccer (we call it that here because football is Aussie Rules – or rugby in some less-blessed states - so no diatribes or personally addressed Molotov cocktails, m’kay?), when the World Cup comes around and the Aussies are participating, we all find some hitherto undiscovered parochial oomph for the boys in green and yellow. The majority of them may have nicked off overseas for pastures more moneyed, but meh, whatever.

Even if you’re not a soccer tragic, EA Sports’ FIFA World Cup games have always been fun. The diehards can have their FIFA 2010 and the like, but the beauty of this special edition update – and it isn’t just a change of teams – is that it’s more accessible by those who aren’t capable of absorbing 3,644 button combinations for different moves (erm, that's an approximate figure that we may have made up, but there are oodles of them). It’s so egalitarian that there’s even a simple two button option so most anybody with opposable thumbs can play. Now that‘s what we’re talkin’ about!

So, hardcore and neophytes alike get to play with 199 international teams, in various setups ranging from qualifying right through to the ultimate showdown for that ugly gold lump itself – locally or online.

As well as being amazing looking and ace fun – if sometimes frustrating when your little pixel dude doesn’t done go where you done want him to – the whole shebang’s been given a liberal coating of South African hoopla. From the mascot (Zakumi – yeah, we actually research sometimes) to shots of feral crowd members, 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa really brings the eventfulness.

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