I fancied a bit of a change, today, since I’ve been doing not much on this blog recently, other than saying “ooh look, Windows Phone 7 Series, shiny” and “booooo, Windows Phone 7 Series, no copy paste, bad Microsoft”. In other words, I’ve been pretty much obsessed with Windows Phone 7 Series, because frankly, despite the disappointment of the latest news to appear (no copy paste, what are they thinking?), I do still like Windows Phone 7 Series.
So, me being me, my idea of ‘a bit of a change’ is to blog about something I actively don’t like…
Thus, I’ve decided to blog about an upcoming football game (and I loathe football… seriously, I can’t stand it) for the iPhone (which I don’t loathe, but which I have little time for). After the frankly disappointing week I’ve had, if I can manage to get myself excited about something I actively don’t like, then I’d call that win. Okay, that might be a completely stupid justification for blogging about something, but then, if you’re surprised by that, I’m forced to ask whether you’ve actually read any of my blog posts before. Never assume I won’t do something completely silly, because it’s very, very likely I will.
Er, yes. Anyway.
As is well known, EA Sports have made a career out of releasing essentially the same games every year, with increasingly bigger numbers at the end. Well, you know, if that’s your cynical view of how they work. Not that that’s a bad thing, of course, because people still buy them, so there’s a big market there, and hell, I’d do the same in their position. However, EA are also a key developer for the iPhone, so this year, what with it being World Cup year, and everything, we get a World Cup on the iPhone: 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.
Obviously, everything’s all super secret at the minute, until EA officially take the wraps off it, but I would imagine it’ll be not completely unlike last year’s FIFA 10 for the iPhone. Which, if you like that sort of thing, will be good, because apparently FIFA 10 is a brilliant game (if you like that sort of thing). Features-wise, again, no details have been forthcoming, but given the name, I’d expect it to be structured around trying to get your team to win the World Cup. Which’d be good for us Brits since, y’know, we haven’t won it since 1966 (coincidentally, that decade is also the last time Britain was cool, and it’s when we made The Italian Job, which can be considered as the absolute highest point of British history).
So, if you like football, and you have an iPhone (top tip? Have an iPhone 3GS, it’s faster), then you’ll no doubt love 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. It’s due to be released on April 27th, and although there’s no word on pricing, it’ll most likely be around the six quid mark, the same as FIFA 10.
See? I got through that whole post without suggesting all footballers should be rounded up, put in a big sack, and thrown into the sea.
Damn. So close…
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