Customer Reviews

2010 FIFA World Cup

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3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I am a fan of FIFA 09 for Wii, but I was deterred from buying 2010 because of bad reviews. But with the World Cup coming up, I decided to purchase the game to get to know the squads for the upcoming tournament. I am enjoying this game immensely.

First off, the gameplay- the addition of using B to do high passes brings the game's fun factor up by a mile, and was something missing from 09. The shots are explosive and remind me of a more arcade experience, but it's quite fun. The shooting is a bit like the Footii matches from 09, but faster shot speed. There is a bit of slow motion that comes when shooting, but it enables you a split second to position your defensive player to make a block and help protect your goalie. I don't find it obtrusive, but some might so please keep this in mind. So far, I am not sure if this feature can be disabled. Shooting on set pieces is more difficult, and is not as automatic as it was in 09- you no longer point the Wii remote at the screen, and requires some timing by shaking the remote at the correct moment. As a soccer fan, I like all of this.

Second, I really enjoy the Build Zakumi's Dream Team feature, which put you and your (default) low rated all-star squad up against various nations, with objectives to complete in game. This feature reminds me of older EA games, accomplishing things to gain points for better skills, etc. As you defeat clubs and accomplish (like maintaining 68% possession against South Africa, or completing 10 straight passes and scoring off those passes against Honduras) tasks, the game allows you to trade players with the team you defeat. This enables you to build an All-Star team of the best Internationals! Another neat feature I like is, as you build your Dream Team, you are able to download it to your Wii remote to play at a friend's house. Very cool, although I don't know how useful it would be unless playing many friends in some sort of tournament. Overall, seeing the new kits, having 199 teams, and the innovative features make a cool game.

Update 5/11/10: I am still enjoying the game, having completed the Dream Team feature and now trying to complete the unlockables. I noticed some commments are negative toward the Wii version compared to other consoles. I think this is the point of the Wii. If you are new to soccer or just want to have fun and score a lot of goals, this is a fine game and system.

If you are a football fan, specifically an International football fan then this game is right for you. No it's not Soccer, it's football!

Surely you must have tried one of the EA Sports FIFA games and if you haven't you should. South Africa 2010 game is pretty much the same as FIFA 2010 (which is based primarily on club football) but focused on International teams with some mild improvements. Graphics and output is very nice. Some basic highlights:

You can "Hit the pitch"
Challenge ANY of the final 200 teams in qualifying for World Cup
You can create your own world cup
Swap teams for the final 32
Change the teams in groups of your choice
Or even swap players (ridiculous but true)
It has on-line playing
And in interesting challenge to create your dream team

However, it's all based on the structure of the South Africa World Cup; stadiums, dates, venues and the ever controversial vuvuzela! Amazing how this games captures a lot of the realities including that darn ball that flies everywhere!

Negatives from my experience:

The game does come with a few glitches every now and then
Celebrating a goal is quite lame in comparison to FIFA 2010 (I really hope they revert in later editions)
For the Die hard fan, the teams skill and capability is based on FIFA ranking so France and Italy for example are a lot better in the game than actual performance (no offense to the fans)
If your team did not qualify, you'll realise that your player make really silly mistakes because again, it's based on the Fifa ranking.

That's my view.

It's a decent, arcade-ish, multiplayer-oriented soccer game, but it suffers from being far too similar to FIFA 10 (if you already own FIFA 10 you're getting just slightly more than a re-skin of it). The game features unrealistic physics and some crazy-insane slow-mo effects (very Matrix-like) to really bring out the all-important "cool factor," however, it eschews realism in favor of fast-paced fun.

The rest of the gameplay feels very old school with only eight directions available for movement which makes it very tough to have effective runs up the field and even tougher to turn the corner around the defender. Other annoyances come when you try to intricately weave passes through the defense. Having through balls and standard passes on the same button is a real mistake. You can no longer hold down the pass button to determine its power, as holding it down now triggers a through ball. Too often the player I'm trying to pass to was too far away for the game to realize where I was trying to go with the pass. Instead of it auto-detecting the distance and delivering a slightly faster-paced kick, all I got was a tap of the ball that then rolled five feet in front of my player. If you have a Classic Controller, I'd recommend using it. The results are much better than what you'll get with either the Wii Remote and Nunchuk combination or just the Wii Remote.

This game will appease younger gamers who just want to go kick the soccer ball, hear unrealistically loud noises when players take a shot and see lots of bright colors.

If you want to just finish a match with incredible scores and using fantastic tricks, this is your soccer game. Those looking for a realistic soccer game won't find it here, you'd still better stick with Pro Evolution Soccer, far deeper and more satisfying.

I got this for a World Cup tournament at work, and it's an ok game, but if you don't have the nunchuck for each Wii-Mote, you have to let the computer control the direction of your players, and they usually tend to run right up the middle.

Kinda a poor execution of control in my opinion since there IS a directional pad, but it only gets used for post-goal celebrations.

Bottom line: This game is good for four-players only if you have four Wii-Motes AND four nunchucks, otherwise you leave 85% of the "playing" up to the computer.

This game features some cool game modes such as Zakumi's dream team where you make your own team and collect better players by beating challenges and try and make the bet dream team possible .
If you want to do the actual world cup you can . First you select your team,then you start your world cup I highly suggest this game.

I like the fact that you could use the new Classic Controller Pro, and that you could play any country in the world. The main thing that's annoying is shooting at goal. I was looking for a setting to change the way shots are presented. I saw some unfavorable reviews for FIFA 10 regarding this horrendous way of shooting the ball at the goal. Every shot seems unrealistic, like as if it's going 110 miles an hour. I don't see many finesse shots, like in real life, on the ground, swerves, deflections, or chip shots. You can adjust to chip it, and it looks all right. Then the shot is shown in slow motion. How annoying. The replay looks so much better. I have only played against the CPU, and the opposing team will take the hardest possible shot from 30 or 35 yards out. Remember, the box is at 18 yards out in real life. My goalkeeper can't even catch it from 35 yards out. That is very unrealistic. In real life, a keeper could most likely control it from that far out. Plus, on corners, the players do acrobatic and bionic looking shots. I think this series of games has devolved. What is the EA brand thinking? I hope they make it look more realistic like years past.

Been looking forward to this purchase for some time. Finally bought it for a Christmas gift. received promptly and in new condition as advertised. Receiver of gift pleased.

This is a great soccer game. Wii soccer fifa also very good. This is cheaper. If you child wants to be good watch soccer and play these games.

I expected much more of this game, but it is really bad. The PC version has more elements, anyway it is not worthy what i spend on it. Not recommended at all. If you want a real enjoyable game buy fifa 11 not this game. The nintendo version is pretty bad, I don't like the slow motion shoots on every single game,

I first played this game at my friends house, love at first sight. I love soccer and this was as realistic as you can get, refs, amazing look-a-likes and cool graphics. A must get for Soccer fans like me!!!