#Fifa 2010 ea sport pro#

Too often when attacking the system will cross the ball rather than lay it across the pitch, making it much harder to score when playing with the dumbed-down controls. EA SportвЂ™s beautiful game canвЂ™t withstand being so heavily blunted by a system thatвЂ™s clunky and unreliable. Then thereвЂ™s the вЂDad PadвЂ™, a mode that reduces the control system to two buttons: Pass and Shoot. The dirty git Likewise, the crowds that the game cuts away to are poorly modelled: worlds away from some of the well-constructed player likenesses that make them ultimately look naff. The managers that patrol the touchline are cute at first but are overused and all too frequently the action is broken up so we can see a close-up of Fabio Capello sniffing his fingers. Some of the new additions arenвЂ™t so welcome. ItвЂ™s undoubtedly better than whatвЂ™s gone before.ДЁ/10 Americans think вЂњDutchвЂќ refers to a character from Top Gun. ItвЂ™s even possible to stutter a run-up, confusing the keeper at the expense of total control. Pressure comes into play, with a moving needle that needs to be stopped at the right place before controlling the power of the kick with the shot button. Should such a scenario involve penalties вЂ“ and when England are involved it invariably does вЂ“ 2010 FIFA World Cup features a slightly tweaked system.

The number of them included on the disc is impressive, and thereвЂ™s even a few from pre-2006 in Germany.

Scenarios from the preliminary stages of this yearвЂ™s World Cup can be played: meaning the outcome of notorious matches like IrelandвЂ™s controversial exit thanks to HenryвЂ™s very own gesture moment is open to revision. The most successful of these is Story of Qualifying.

#Fifa 2010 ea sport pro#

Old favourites like Captain Your Country (an offshoot of FIFA 10вЂ™s Be a Pro that lets you take a player from the bench to World Cup glory) make a return, but theyвЂ™re joined by some new features. 2010 FIFA World Cup is about more than refinement though. Penalties have been tweaked, and thereвЂ™s now a pressure bar, which is trickier to nail during important moments in a match. Player-likenesses are another area of improvement: EnglandвЂ™s ranks, in particular, are eerily spot-on, though this does widen the gulf between the players that arenвЂ™t deemed worthy of some dedicated sculpting: lesser teams like Slovenia are swollen with clay-faced look-a-like orcs that could well have wandered in from Morrowind. The pitch is the biggest beneficiary which, on paper, sounds underwhelming but given that the grass holds the most real estate (pun intended) in a game of football, the new pitch textures make World Cup look a step beyond even the immediate predecessor, let-alone earlier incarnations. ItвЂ™s had a subtle facelift too, and itвЂ™s one that goes a surprisingly long way. Why is Father Grigori playing for the Blue Team? ItвЂ™s certainly FIFA 10вЂ™s beautiful game, but itвЂ™s had botox. This has had a significant impact on other areas too: crosses are now more often met with strong, well-directed headers or вЂ“ more delightfully вЂ“ well-struck volleys, meaning that goals now have a tendency to be suitably spectacular.

Players are more composed when running onto through balls, meaning that fast-and-fluid aggressive football is now a much larger part of the game. And of course beneath that a-list sparkle lays a game that still stands as one of the very best takes on football вЂ“ and itвЂ™s had a bunch of improvements of its own. Smaller footballing nations arenвЂ™t quite so well presented however. Player likenesses for the top-drawer teams are fantastic. An attractive hub in the straight-up World Cup mode feeds in news from the virtual tournament, while off the pitch players are vulnerable to training injuries that all help make the game feel convincing and ensure that come victory or defeat itвЂ™s difficult not to feel attached to your chosen team. This level of detail is maintained throughout the game. Andy Townsend and Clive Tyldesley earn their money from the South African Tourist Board in the commentary box: preaching the virtues of the host nation at every opportunity and also bearing a generous amount of bespoke lines that help bring the action to life. The atmosphere of match-day is incredible: air-horns, ticker-tape and the nauseating caterwaul of massed ranks of Vuvuzelas (which, thank Christ, can be switched off) that combine like Voltron to create an air of excitement that effortlessly exceeds previous offerings. FIFA has announced that, to save costs, the cup used from 2014 onwards will be chocolate covered in tin foilвЂ¦