PS4 and Xbox One release date arrives
For fans of a certain generation, there's only ever been one truly brilliant football video game.
With a birds-eye camera view and a set-up that moreorless mirrored Subbuteo, Sensible World of Soccer was a complete classic.
It
was no frills, no fuss entertainment. No Twitter hashtags. And
certainly, to our knowledge, never any endorsements from the
professional footballer fraternity.
But when you
overlook the glorious nostalgia (and it is glorious), today's market
leader knocks the spots off of it. On every level and in every stretch
of the imagination.
For
Sepp Blatter and the executive bods in Zurich, Christmas comes early
every September – after all, it's not too often you hear
overly-complimentary things being said about FIFA (or ever).
So, enter this year's must-have for avid gamers: FIFA 16.
Over 13
billion hours were devoted to its predecessor, FIFA 15, by online gamers
in the past year. A whopping 3.4billion goals were celebrated.
What's
more, there were over 211million Ultimate Team sessions played. And
statistically, Sunday was the most popular day of the week for people to
grab their controllers (not joysticks as Sensible used to have it) and
play - on average, over 232million matches. So much for Sunday being a
day of rest!
This year's eagerly-anticipated offering - available to buy now – received over 500,000 pre-orders in the UK alone.
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