Real Football 2010

It’s good to see that Gameloft aren’t letting the hiccup with Dungeon Hunter put them off their stride. Yes, it’s another week, another new title, the latest addition to the Gameloft family is one I’m sure every football (or Soccer, if you’re American) fan has been waiting for, Real Football 2010. Now, Real Football 2010 is a follow up to their well received game Real Football 2009. But, is it good enough to warrant you spending your hard earned cash on?

Well, if you played RF 2009 the first thing you will notice is that the controls have remained almost the same, with a virtual stick on the left side of the screen and an ”˜A’ and ”˜B’ button on the right with the A button being used for shooting and tackling and the B button assigned to passing. This means of control ensure for an entertaining, if not entirely realistic game play, for example, where is the button to have your character dive in an attempt to get a free kick or penalty?

Graphically, the game looks stunning, although I would expect nothing less from Gameloft at the moment, and the one player game ran smoothly on my 2G iPhone with very few stutters despite the somewhat frantic gameplay at times.

But I think it’s the amount of content that make this game a winner, with 8 leagues and 245 teams, and although dome of the team names are fictitious, the player names are all real thanks to the FIFPro license, the game even has the option to update the players database to ensure that your game stays up to date as real life transfers take place.

I think it’s safe to say that there is plenty here to keep you occupied, just playing through a full season with you team will take time enough, but with additional gameplay modes including the ability to play as an individual player and manage your pro football career, along with the RF League which includes online leader boards to allow you to check how you stack up against other players around the world.

Another addition to this outing of the franchise is online play through Wifi and local head to head action via Bluetooth. Unfortunately, having a 2G iPhone and no Wifi connection I have been unable to test these game modes out, but feedback from people who have had have informed me that it’s a bit buggy at present, with games freezing and a ”˜lag’ that makes the games almost unplayable at times. Hopefully this is something that Gameloft will be looking into, it would be such a shame if a game as good as this in one player mode loses sales and respect due to a poorly implemented online mode.

See It In Action

Overall though, there is no reason to let the online play put you off, this is a great football game, and Gameloft continue to set the bar when it comes to great games. But, with Fifa 2010 due out in the next couple of weeks, will this suffer as a result, though as fellow RazorianFly Writer Damon stated, “if you love soccer though why not have both”.