FIFA Street confirmed - EA Big urbanises football
Phat Farm jumpers for goal-posts, no doubt
Electronic Arts has announced today that its EA Big brand will be giving the long-running FIFA series a spot of the Street treatment. From a non-American perspective, EA Big's approach to American sports has certainly boosted their appeal. Without a keen interest in real life basketball and American football, NBA Street and NFL Street offer a little extra something.
However, here in Europe we take our football (with the round ball) very seriously indeed. The market seems pretty much sown up between Konami's fantastic Pro Evolution series and the more mainstream, but massively popular, full-blown FIFA games. Whether or not there is much room for FIFA Street is highly debatable.
Other games to have taken the beautiful sport off the pitch have pretty much fallen flat on their faces. Acclaim's Freestyle Street Soccer was a minor travesty, and X-Treme Beach Soccer hardly fared much better. That said, this ought to retain much of the gameplay that makes FIFA so popular, just with some extra show-off moves thrown in.
If FIFA Soccer can keep up with the pace expected from a football title, whilst simultaneously injecting enough innovation to differentiate it from 'standard' soccer games, then it might turn out to be rather enjoyable. If, on the other hand, it simply serves to dilute the very reason we love football games so much, FIFA Street may have to watch from the sidelines as its bigger, Intreactive World Cup-backed, older brother does battle with the almighty Pro Evolution Soccer 4.
It's due for release at some point in 2005, so expect an update shortly after FIFA 2005's launch.
However, here in Europe we take our football (with the round ball) very seriously indeed. The market seems pretty much sown up between Konami's fantastic Pro Evolution series and the more mainstream, but massively popular, full-blown FIFA games. Whether or not there is much room for FIFA Street is highly debatable.
Other games to have taken the beautiful sport off the pitch have pretty much fallen flat on their faces. Acclaim's Freestyle Street Soccer was a minor travesty, and X-Treme Beach Soccer hardly fared much better. That said, this ought to retain much of the gameplay that makes FIFA so popular, just with some extra show-off moves thrown in.
If FIFA Soccer can keep up with the pace expected from a football title, whilst simultaneously injecting enough innovation to differentiate it from 'standard' soccer games, then it might turn out to be rather enjoyable. If, on the other hand, it simply serves to dilute the very reason we love football games so much, FIFA Street may have to watch from the sidelines as its bigger, Intreactive World Cup-backed, older brother does battle with the almighty Pro Evolution Soccer 4.
It's due for release at some point in 2005, so expect an update shortly after FIFA 2005's launch.
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Joji 8 Oct 2004 15:56
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Good idea, but I find more people play football in the local park than in the street, though I understand where they are coming from.
Football is always way better on grass when you can tackle properly etc. If there is more focus on the park football this would make more sense. FIFA Park Football would be better title, because playing it around vehicles is always tricky and dangerous.
I'm sure after putting the FIFA series back on track EA could manage it.
Football is always way better on grass when you can tackle properly etc. If there is more focus on the park football this would make more sense. FIFA Park Football would be better title, because playing it around vehicles is always tricky and dangerous.
I'm sure after putting the FIFA series back on track EA could manage it.