I enjoy the concept of this new mode, but will have to wait and see how it progresses as the real tournament goes on. You can insert any of these teams into the tournament and see if you can bring them to glory, or you can check out the Story of Qualifying mode and see if you can rewrite history.
Other small gameplay additions include the ability to play as all 199 international squads that played in the real qualifying round. This+is+what+it's+all+about.+Stay+tuned+for+our+video+review,+coming+shortly. Now it feels much more like a duel between two sides rather than a guessing game with little skill.
Gone are the days of not knowing how to dive or when to push the button as the goalkeeper. In the way of gameplay that means a fine-tuned penalty kick system which, while it is a very small detail, adds more user control to the all-important PK situations.
That includes the gameplay innovations and feature additions as well. From the menu design to the ever-present Zakumi mascot to the facts that pop up during loading screens, everything wreaks of World Cup. The World Cup permeates every mode and aspect of 2010 FIFA World Cup. I almost cried when I saw the Americans win the Cup and heard what the commentators had to say. I'm not going to build it up any more than this: go win the World Cup and sit back and listen. Typically the duo in the booth are repetitive and altogether boring. The commentary also adds to the gravitas of the occasion. Streamers flow onto the field during the introductions, and while I do wish they'd react to players when they go sliding and running through them, the fact that they're included ups the pageantry quite a bit. Crowds are extremely loud and wonderfully raucous, which really sells them as being diehard soccer fans. For South African World Cup that means the release of 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, a game that, despite its unattractive name, does a good job of presenting some of the same great soccer action seen in FIFA 10 with just the right amount of mechanical and aesthetic innovations to make it feel like a title that can stand on its own two feet. With every World Cup comes another EA Sports-made soccer title.