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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Zuler | 07/09/2009 12:04
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I’ll be buying The Beatles Rock Band and DiRT2, nothing more. Have to save up for the crazy months of Q4! If anyone else is buying it, I’m pretty sure I’d love to play with you
a inferior race | 07/09/2009 12:05
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If the LBP demo is any good I might finally decide to buy it. THe only games I’m getting this month are FIFA 10 if thats out and Halo: ODST.
iNsAnE_gAmInG | 07/09/2009 16:19
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A demo can’t really provide you with a suitable insight for LBP, it just doesn’t work. You need to see just how many possibilities the creation tools hodl, a top quality creator can make near-enough anything honestly, plus it’s generally a mint game with a hell of a lifespan.
You need to BUY THE FULL GAME (which can be found very cheap nowadays, oftne around a tenner) and experience this masterpiece for yourself.
a inferior race | 07/09/2009 16:55
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THe only problem is I can’t make a cup of tea much less a level.
iNsAnE_gAmInG | 07/09/2009 17:46
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LOL ok fair enough bud.
matt12allen | 07/09/2009 12:56
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I cant wait forthe FIFA 10 demo! The 360 degree dribbling looks amazing! Im also wondering if there is also going to be a need for speed demo as well this week? Anyone know?
Roynaldo | 07/09/2009 13:10
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I want Mini Ninjas but think il wait for a while, got quite a few games to go through right now. Star Wars is going well and got Harry Potter coming tomorrow which will probably last a couple of weeks when ive got Killzone to get on with too.
Then theres [PROTOTYPE] which is hardly started. God dam i need to get some of this stuff done before I think of buying anything else.
FIFA demo will have a quick run out aswell but never been a big demo player, once through and thats it for me.
Lets hope we get some dynamic themes this week eh!
Bankzy108 | 07/09/2009 13:55
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Mini Ninjas, really? I played the demo and didn’t think much of it…although I liked how you can become different animals like frogs, chickens, bears, ect. Reminds me I need to get trophy hunting on a few games before FIFA 10 comes out…Batman:AA, FIFA 09, Motorstorm:PR.
Roynaldo | 07/09/2009 14:37
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Each to their own, i loved it. All the hidden items and paths, the humorous elements of it and the variation in gameplay makes it quite good in my eyes.
colmshan1990 | 07/09/2009 13:22
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I couldn’t believe it when they didn’t link to TSA. There are even the four comments giving the link but they didn’t bother to edit the article!
And if I can platinum Harry Potter soon, I’ll get the game for free! 
On the subject of the FIFA 10 demo, I have a feeling this will get me my FIFA fix until FIFA 10 comes out, as my local Gamestop are offering €30 against pre-orders for FIFA 09. I’ll use it to pre-order FIFA 10 half-price!
Bankzy108 | 07/09/2009 13:53
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‘And if I can platinum Harry Potter soon, I’ll get the game for free!’
May I ask how? As Sony bought in a reward system already!?…We can wish
colmshan1990 | 07/09/2009 14:03
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It’s just that Gamestop have a list of games we can trade-in for €30, and they say FIFA 10 will be €60, so the two traded in would be the game for free.
That kind of reward system would be awesome though!
Kings | 07/09/2009 13:58
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I’m thinking a TSA clubs team? Would be brilliant!
Roynaldo | 07/09/2009 14:38
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Im not looking forward to the trophy list….. incase that duo-hedgedecimal rears its ugly head again!!!
Kings | 07/09/2009 15:20
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Don’t even get me started! Haha, some of those sucked so bad! Fun to try and acquire though. I tried to get the poon sang achievement by playing unranked games with 11 rejects i made but it was too hard.
BryOnRye | 07/09/2009 14:57
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Football games are like singstar, loads of people love them but have absolutely no attraction to me. Nothing has come close since sensible soccer!
hitman999 | 07/09/2009 15:34
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Luckily I got my FIFA 09 plat last week so now I can just practice on FIFA 10 demo until it comes out. Personally I believe that EA vastly improved the gameplay quality for 09 and are taking bigger leaps to improve it even further, leaving Pro evo in it’s trail.
iNsAnE_gAmInG | 07/09/2009 16:17
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Woooo Fifa 10. Can’t wait!!!
Looking forward to this more than anything else.
mynameisblair | 07/09/2009 16:31
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Don’t really like Fifa, but will give it a try and hope its somewhat different.
G_The_Enemy14 | 07/09/2009 17:07
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fifa 10 looks good, hopefully the demo will be. might get lbp demo even though i have the game
iNsAnE_gAmInG | 07/09/2009 17:47
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I thought of getting the LBP demo despite hvaing the full game as well, just to see out of curiosity what Media Molecule are offering the players as a taster.
BlingOnMyWrist | 07/09/2009 18:25
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“a footy game we’re pretty excited to be getting our hands on” haha
Alex_Assassin_08 | 07/09/2009 18:46
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guess I’ll check this out ^^ its supposedly good
funkyellowmonkey(ps3 id) | 08/09/2009 00:00
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Can’t wait!
Sig-gotyouth | 08/09/2009 02:53
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I managed to get hold of The Beatles Rockband pre-release and woooooooooow… first music game for me and it’s a blast… I actually played the whole thing n one sitting and the art styles are amazing!
iNsAnE_gAmInG | 08/09/2009 19:30
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Does that hold any relevance to this article mate?
LOL, but glad you are enjoying Beatles rockband, it looks quite good but I’m not willing to fork out all that cash for all of the instruments with all these ace games on the way.