FIFA 10 World Cup: South Africa Review
After playing the FIFA 10, you have a truly great expectations for the next game in line of FIFA games and admiration for how far the series has come. This summer, before you play FIFA 11 or even watch the biggest sporting event in the World, EA Sports hopes to capture the passion you have for your country in FIFA 10 World Cup: South Africa. The core elements are there, just as you remember them from FIFA 10. The Team from EA added new Celebrations and improved the goalkeepers intelligence(less lob shots over the goalie!!) and Visuals, But the main new adjustment in gameplay comes from the new Penalty kick System. The New System I found to be much better and not at all difficult to pick up, although can be very challenging in big moments. The game feels great, with the atmosphere of the World Cup truly coming through on your television. They also worked hard on creating the Stadiums from the actual World Cup, there all in the game and they all look like the real thing, the stadiums look much better than in FIFA 10, especially the ten of them that are in South Africa.Along with the usually option is the Pre-Match Menu, when you play a "Play Now" game you can also select the Match type, these range from Friendlies all the way to World Cup Final, which changes the atmosphere and difficulty. When you choose to start you will be given a loading menu with some quick facts about a country, then your hit with the spectacular presentation of South Africa. The game Visuals have improved and player models for some of the more recognizable players on the top-tier teams have been upgraded. The coaches on the sideline are a nice added touch of realism, especially when they talk to the players being substituted in the game and react to the action on the field.
Since this game is all about the World Cup the New modes are all geared to winning the World cup and the journey to get there. The 2010 FIFA World Cup mode, you can take your countries team thought the journey of the world cup, or start quickly with the Final game, between your pick of two countries. The Captain Your Country mode is similar to "Be a Pro" mode in FIFA 10, where you take an existing player, your " Be A Pro " player from FIFA 10, or create a new player and captain your favorite country tying to win the World Cup. In this mode you can re-write history by taking your country, even if they didn't qualify in real life, through the whole qualification process again all the way to the Wold Cup Finals. The next and most challenging mode I found is the Story of Qualifying mode where you re-life past matches in hopes to meet certain objectives. You can gain points for achieving all these Objectives to then unlock scenarios from the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and they will be adding new ones as they happen for this years World Cup. The last new Mode is the Online FIFA WorldCup Mode where you select a country to play for in the battle of the nations, to earn points in an online world cup setting. When you play matches online(It doesn't have to be the team you chose) you earn points and advance to later rounds if you win. So a person who chooses to represent Brazil, can play and is encouraged to play with teams that are not as good, because it gives you more points toward your Nation total. Aside from the new modes the standard Training and Setting options are there, just like in FIFA 10. You will want to try out the new Penalty kick system when get the game under the Penalty Shootout option in the main menu.
The Game menus and songs are all well done to the theme of the World Cup and have a nice look and feel to them. The only problem I would say seems to be a nagging issue is when other players on your team just stand there waiting for the ball to come to them for far too long, while it doesn't happen frequently it is frustrating when it happens. Those who have FIFA 10 should know what I mean, and it's still an issue. So if you enjoyed FIFA 10 and want to live the journey of taking your country through through the World Cup's many stages and win the whole thing, this is the game for you. Sixty dollars is a steep price thought, I traded in my copy of FIFA 10 to pick up World Cup: South Africa, and feel like the price was worth it; If you don't want to trade in your copy of FIFA 10, you should probably wait for the next iteration in the series FIFA 11.
