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Ubisoft Announces Pure Football

Written by Dan Bolas on Monday, 8 March 20102 Comments

It’s been along time since a major gaming company entered the console footballing gaming market, but Ubisoft have recently announced Pure Football, their slightly different attempt to gain a foothold in a genre dominated by EA Sports and Konami.

From inital trailers, the game looks more like a FIFA Street competitor than a genuine football title, and features over animated sprites coupled with a 5 a side setting. The crop of 270 players representing a quite measely 17 national teams (thats 15.8 players per team) is hardly on the same level as the berth provided by FIFA’s upcoming World Cup title, however the more casual set up and a seeming ephasis on pick up and play may be welcomed into the market by some football gaming fans.

The official HD Ubisoft trailer is featured below. Leave your opinions in the space provided!

2 Comments »

  • igcompany said:

    Wow. Good game i can see from the trailer. But it seems that it won’t be as complex as PES.

    - 21 March 2010 at 11:04 am
  • Andy said:

    I think the game’s title is a bit of a misnomer if you ask me.
    Pure Football (or Futbol, as they Spanishly rendered) to me is pretty much what EA and Konami have done all these years.
    It’s not because I can freely foul the opposition down that I call it pure football, but because I have the ability to give spectacle to hundreds of fans sitting on the crowd (not that I’m THAT good in soccer games, actually ^^’). I don’t even care that Steven Gerrard’s endorsing it. It does look good, but didn’t appeal to me in terms of football. It’s basically Sega Soccer Slam with real players.

    I mean, even the This is Football games for PS2 (a.k.a. World Tour Soccer), even though they sucked, even they offered a better approach to football (and the best part is, they had a massive team roster that even EA could never touch, and that’s why I found it a bit of a guilty pleasure in the only two times I played the 2006 version) than this. Hell, even Midway’s RedCard had rules! I mean, playing without rules would inevitably degenerate into a huge mess. And that’s not what I look for in a football title.

    - 27 March 2010 at 12:45 pm

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