Back to the street...

In my younger days I had a PS2, for me it was the coolest thing ever, hours and hours of weekends where spent on the thin black box shooting aliens, pulling off huge tricks on SSX (a snowboarding game) and most importantly owning the AI with sick skills on FIFA Street. FIFA Street was the computer game of my child-hood. I loved the epic tricks you could perform, the venues across the globe, the game breaker shots and most importantly the fact that even when you had just nutmegged them the computer-controlled players had the same face shape. The franchise spurned 3 games and I had FIFA Street 2, the best of the 3. FIFA Street 1 was a revolution among kids, years of dreams of performing skills with and against our favourite players where finally realised, FIFA Street 2 built on that with more tricks, better graphics and more unlockables. We don't talk about FIFA Street 3, it wasn't very good and the cartoony characters that we'd loved in the first 2 where starting to look a bit silly. However after 4 years the game is back. With football video games being better then they ever have been, the people who bought you the best selling game franchise in history (The FIFA games) are back with a reboot and it's better than ever... 

Virtual Ronaldinho getting a virtual taste of his own virtual medicine...

For a start the cartoony character styles are gone, the graphics are of course better. The controls are more responsive and there are a wider variety of tricks, including some seriously cool ones, but the thing I'm most looking forward to is the new ATTACK dribbling system not only do the players have better touch, you also have the control to dance with the ball in front of the defender before pulling a trick called Street Ball Control. You can play futsal, five/six-a-side (basically futsal but with walls), panna, one on one you can even customise and create your own game settings. Last man standing is also available, every time you score the opposition lose a player until they is no one left.

Not something you'd try in a normal game...

Another highly anticipated feature is the introduction of club teams which were unavailable in the last game. Over 120 teams will feature in the game, including both club and national along with other street football teams. Those who pre-order the game get a Messi street team as a bonus, Lionel Messi has recently signed a deal to become the new face of all the FIFA Franchise. The new game will hopefully have similar commentary to the previous games as this was the one of best features, phrases like "Oh my days, did you see that?", "When in doubt, use the walls," and "You just got nutsed brov..." The came will feature 35 locations from Madrid to Munich, London to Los Angeles, Barcelona to Buenos Ares and of course three locations in Rio, the world street football capital.

London, fine. Venice, cool. Shanghai, epic. Dubai, oh c**p...

Released in mid March this game promises much and a do hope it delivers, many of my child-hood memories are of the originals and I don't want them ruined by this game, I'm sure it will live up to it's billing and I will enjoy hours of entertainment from it. I'm looking forward to owning players, scoring goals and pulling huge tricks. What more could a teenager want really? (actually don't answer that)...