FIFA 10 Demo Lands This Thursday
It's a busy week for gamers.Published 07/09/2009 at 6:43 by nofi
The gaming industry traditionally ramps up their release output as we approach Christmas, but this week’s offerings in lowly September appear to be a rather nice spike in the imaginary chart that tends to plot bugger all during the Summer and far too much in the Winter, with some big hitters releasing onto shelves (and floor space) this week which we’ll come back later. In the meantime, we’re delighted that EA will be offering a playable demo of FIFA 10 for us Europeans to download from the Store this Thursday.
The demo will include one exhibition match allowing the players to choose from Chelsea, Barcelona, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Marseille, Accrington Stanley or Chicago Fire, and with the cool new 360 degree dribbling feature for the first time in a footy game we’re pretty excited to be getting our hands on this on Thursday. You’ll also be able to upload your videos to EA’s own Football World too, which is a nice feature for those spectacular goals although we’d probably prefer good old Youtube if anyone apart from the odd first party new how to do it on PS3.
So, with FIFA 10’s demo landing on PS3 and Xbox 360, what else is there? Well, keeping with demos there’s one of LittleBigPlanet. Yes, seriously, Media Molecule and Sony will be releasing a playable demo of one of the PS3’s finest games, presumably for the new PS3 Slim crowd that will just be getting into PlayStation this Autumn. It’s nice timing, with some playable Story mode levels, a sample of user created ones and a smattering of Create pieces to whet the appetites of Sony’s new army of customers eager for free tasters of games.
Don’t forget to drop the US Blog a line at the link above too, asking why they didn’t like to TSA and LittleBigLand.com but were perfectly happy to do so for good ol’ JoyStiq.
So, away from the land of Digital Download and back to the coal face, those all-important shiny floors of GAME, GameStation and all the other independent stores that you love to shop in. This week sees the release of DiRT 2, a game we can’t get enough of right now and have massive hopes for, and with our full review soon we’ll try to explain why. Also out is Mini Ninjas, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and three (count ‘em) music based games: SingStar Motown, Guitar Hero 5 and Rock Band Beatles. If you want to sing, drum or strum this weekend you’re covered.
We’ll be updating our release dates page soon, but in the meantime, drop a comment in the box below if you’re thinking of picking anything up this week, and what your thoughts are on the two big demos landing on the Store this week. Personally I can see why there’s finally a LittleBigPlanet demo but I’m rather partial to a good game of FIFA so that’ll be first on my download queue, and SingStar Motown will hopefully be winging its merry way to us at some point this week so we’ll let you know what that’s all about when it arrives.
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iBirch | 07/09/2009 08:02
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Can’t wait for the FIFA 10 demo, looks amazing! I loved FIFA 09 so I have high hopes for this one. And I’m getting Dirt 2 can’t wait for that.
mark w. | 07/09/2009 08:15
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I can’t wait anymore for the FIFA10 demo. So in the next days I need to play a lot more with FIFA09 to collect some additional silverware.
superjag86 | 07/09/2009 08:36
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I think (not 100% sure) that there might be a Need for Speed Shift demo this week too. I’m really interested to see if it plays as good as it looks.
bajere | 07/09/2009 09:20
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i would like to see that! the NFS game looks alot better than Dirt2. The Dirt 2 demo didnt really pop for me, felt to arcade like for me. where as a NFS video i have seen has settings to adjust the simulation to arcade ratio. GT5 will be the closet to a racing sim, but the NFS may end up being more fun to play, which is the most important thing! lol
I hope FIFA10 has the pro mode in the demo and it wont limit the game to 1 HALF WITH NO REMATCH OPTION! really annoying when you want to play for longer than 2.5mins!!!!
mugsybalone | 07/09/2009 08:56
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If I didn’t drink lots of milk, I’d only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley.
djdustb | 07/09/2009 09:41
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Accrington Stanley? Who are they?
mugsybalone | 07/09/2009 09:51
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Exactly!
djdustb | 07/09/2009 10:22
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Ba dum tsh!
Michael | 07/09/2009 09:01
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FIFA 10. If it’s any good then I may well try and organise a FIFA 10 league and cup tournament. Or not.
dirtyhabit | 07/09/2009 14:57
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Commitment, thats what I like to see.
matty | 07/09/2009 16:22
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i would join just so every one can get a better goal diff lol im crap would be good as a weekly event we all play a round of games for a few weeks
BRADLINSKI | 08/09/2009 17:03
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I would play! im not the best not the worst, u know what i mean
djdustb | 07/09/2009 09:42
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Looking forward to this demo, need to get up to speed with the controls (being a PES man in the past) before this comes out.
a inferior race | 07/09/2009 12:02
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I was the same and for FIFA 09 I changed the controls so that they were the same as PES.
Sig-gotyouth | 07/09/2009 10:44
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Well… I’m looking forward to the demo of Fifa 10, as I’ve bought into the Fifa franchise since ‘Fifa 95 on Sega MegaDrive’. I feel that Sony need to do more than a demo to push LittleBigPlanet… get that game into instore booths and you have a winner for this holiday (though I have a feeling they may do this at the time EyePet and the new Ratchet & Clank games are released, to show that they have a wealth of Pick-up-and-play family friendly games.
This week, I’m tempted into venturing into the rhythm-action-music-game genre for the first time with The Beatles Rockband. I was in Leicester this past weekend to see family and ended up having a good blast of the drums and loved it. My only gribe is that for the £179.99, I don’t get all the plastic instruments, which to me are far more asthetically pleasing then the standard ones.
Cloud With a Chance of Meatlballs, lookslike a good rent, as does Mini Ninjas which I’ll play the demo of this week before I decide weather to put any time into it at a later date. As for Colin McCraes Dirt 2? well… I’m going to hold out for GT5 (I’m not a fan of driving games, if I’m honest but GT5 looks like a nice show-off peice).
P.S. a heads up… most online retailers are selling the Beatles Rockband with wireless SingStar mics for the same price as the normal standalone retail copy
CaptainMurdo | 07/09/2009 10:52
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LBP demo is a great idea. The beta really convinced me to buy it on release day.
I’ll give Fifa a try but football games just seem like the same thing to me year and year, obviously they are not though.
I’ve nothing planned purchases-wise though. =(
tinytim01 | 07/09/2009 10:55
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want to try this so much roll on thursday
Manorhowze | 07/09/2009 11:06
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Will try the FIFA demo but I have never been a fan of FIFA. DiRT 2 is pre ordered and GH5 will be purchased at some point but the pennies are a bit tight at the mo.
Dafro1989 | 07/09/2009 11:23
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Will download this, if only for my brother to give it a try. He wins so often, I’m thinking of hosting money matches using him as the player, with some sort of fee for using my PS3.
Timesh1993 | 07/09/2009 11:23
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Looks like i’ll be playing the fifa 10 demo till I get it
Chogoria | 07/09/2009 11:33
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can’t wait for this, hopefully on release weekend the supermarkets will be doing a special price point promotion of £29.99 like last year
cc_star | 07/09/2009 11:50
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I’ve always found the FIFA & PES demos to be a poor imitation of the games themselves (except for the past 2 years when the PES game has actually been just as bad the demo)
Rob92 | 07/09/2009 13:16
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PES demo was abismal. How anyone plays it above FIFA I dont know.
colmshan1990 | 07/09/2009 15:52
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In memory of former glories. A bit like Leeds/ Liverpool/ Newcastle fans etc.
Hodgi92 | 07/09/2009 11:52
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Good stuff. I’m gunna download the LBP demo just to have a look at how they’ve done one.