A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: FIFA
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I am a creature of habit. I like routine so much in fact that if I don’t walk the same way around the Parliamentary triangle at lunch, or eat the same thing at the same time each day, I feel like it puts my entire day into disarray. It’s a strange little character trait to…
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Being a migrant-built country founded by Brits and living in a city made home by a wave of Italians and Germans, it isn’t surprising that Football of the soccer variety came naturally to plenty of kids at my school in Australia. While Adelaide is a city in love with its Aussie Rules football, for a…
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If you’ve ever sifted through the pre-owned section of your local games store, or scrolled through the seemingly endless video game listings on ebay, you know just how little value we as people place on old sports games. Every year like clockwork, developers and publishers push out a new version of their sports simulator, while…
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I watch a lot of sport. I’ve played a lot of sport. And I’ve played a lot of sporting based video games. In short I know my sport. If you know anything about sport you’ll know that it is often won on split second decisions by players, or player error on the part of the…
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EA Sports has pretty much a cart blanche when it comes to its stranglehold over key sporting licences – now more than ever with it extending its FIFA licence through to 2022. Ask anyone and they’ll tell you what a bloody outrage it is, that competition pushes innovation, and that NFL 2K for the Dreamcast was…
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I’ll say right off the bat that not a whole lot has changed, functionally at least, from Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 to Pro Evolution Soccer 3D. As a result, what has been said before can be said again – if you liked PES before, you’ll likely enjoy it now. Aside from the addition of the 3D…
A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME 