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MMORPG.com's Joe Iuliani conducts this Q&A interview with the folks from Football Superstars, the upcoming Soccer-based MMORPG.

MMORPG.com:

Sport Games have traditionally been a console game staple, how do you think a PC sports game will fair?

Football Superstars:

Rather well from what I've seen! PC versions have always played second fiddle to their console brethren for the big guns in football gaming and you often get the impression they're little more than an afterthought from the way they play. Football Superstars however is a game that's been developed solely with the PC in mind.

The big difference between the formats is control systems. Obviously gamepads have got a monopoly on the home consoles and so we've had umpteen years to get used to blistering our thumbs with D-pad and button controls. The keyboard and mouse system used in Football Superstars is a real sea change and a lot of players who've been brought up on FIFA and PES approach it with apprehension at first. We take no small amount of pleasure in seeing that moment when it all falls into place and they realise exactly why we've taken the approach we have.

Console football games employ a certain amount of creative license when interpreting the player's inputs. When you're through on goal in FIFA you'll give the game an inkling of where you want to put your shot but ultimately it's out of your hands. Ever thought you'd set up a perfectly placed dink into the top corner and seen it blasted 15 feet over the bar?

FS employs a control system that will be familiar to anyone who's played a first or third person shooter. W, A, S, and D control your movement, shift is sprint, spacebar is pass, and left click is shoot (this being the short and sweet explanation, obviously). Using the mouse you can choose precisely where you want the ball to go, giving you an unprecedented level of control over your actions. It will sound unusual and unintuitive until you've actually sat down and had a go, but it's remarkable how quickly players get the hang of it and find themselves performing defence-splitting passes and crunching tackles without a second thought.

Read the Football Superstars Interview

This is exactly why PC games are not in trouble.  The companies who write for consoles don't want to require keyboard and mouse addtions for the console, so they dumb the game down to work with the controller.   That is why you won't see a pvp MMO written for both console and PC, unless they are kept on separate servers, because the pvper with the PC controls is literally going to consistently own the console player with a controller.

Of all sport mmo's that could be made.  Soccer?!!! so lame...

A. NOT football.

B. No one cares.

Uhh, don't even think about making a soccer mmorpg, seriously.  They expect this thing to somehow roll in the money? 

I know people have to work somewhere putting their programming and artistic skills to use but come on.  Get a job at Blizzard, Mythic, or Cryptic, anywhere else. 

Pretty useless to spend years of your life working on something like this that has so little marketability in todays mmo environment.

Seems to me the change from traditional fantasy based mmo's has drifted to sci fi (SWOR, STO etc.) and post apocolyptic fallout, fallen earth type stuff, these devs. are wasting their time. 

It's going to sink.

Originally posted by SinzOfMan

Of all sport mmo's that could be made.  Soccer?!!! so lame...

Not really when you think about it. Football (soccer, if you must) is the biggest sport on the planet after all.

Originally posted by Zayne3145

Originally posted by SinzOfMan

Of all sport mmo's that could be made.  Soccer?!!! so lame...

 

Not really when you think about it. Football (soccer, if you must) is the biggest sport on the planet after all.

Shhh..Americans are the only ones in the world that matter.. Oh , and americans also somehow are the worlds biggest mmo markets...... /sarcasm..

This game will prolly strike gold in Europe.... It sounds like a decent idea to be honest..

I personally couldn't think of a better sport to be made into an MMO to be honest.  I can't answer whether it will appeal to a large enough existing audience, but as mentioned in the interview, there are a lot of factors that will entice people to try this game out.

This is a different outlook on mmorpg's that should prove to be very interesting for the genre.  I am interested to see how this will compare with traditional mmo attitudes among players, and what this means for the future.

Overall though, this game is definately worth a look at when it is released, if you have any interest in such a game.  Some people will hate it because they lack any care for the sport.  But anyone that is remotely interested in this concept should give this a try in the coming months.

great idea and project.

say whatever you want...  but I'm just waiting for it!

PUMA FTW

To be honest I can't imagin