FIFA 10 is now listed as new and available for free on the Nokia Ovi Store? The much favoured footy franchise lets you pick and play as a team from the current crop of the best club teams in the world. Now that it's free, is it worth your bother? Read our FIFA 10 review to find out.
If you're looking for some top class footy action on your mobile without having to spend a penny, there has never been a better time to head to the Ovi Store. To our surprise FIFA 10 has just been made available for zero of your precious pounds.
As you'd expect, FIFA 10 comes with all the club licensing you'd wish for. All the biggest clubs, players and leagues are included should you wish to play as any of your favourite teams. Season mode lets you play through a whole season against teams from your chosen league, while My Cup lets you customise your own cup competition.
Other modes include Be A Pro, where you get to customise your own player to take on their career path through the lower leagues before (hopeful) playing at the top level. Their skill develops as you go on. On a mobile game Be A Pro it's an ambitious feature, and one that works to a degree, though at times you'll barely notice many of their new attributes.
Unfortunately that is because most of the football you play on FIFA 10 feels very samey, with speed being the only real tangible difference between certain players. As a result matches tend to feel repetitive. A lack of landscape mode compatibility on the N97 we tried it on didn't help things either. So in portrait mode you have a D-pad that you drag your finger along to dribble and sprint, and pass and shoot buttons placed towards the top of the screen. It's not very comfortable. In fact, your fingers will hurt after a few games and certainly takes some getting used to. And in order to shoot you have to lift your finger off the D-pad to do so, leaving your player temporarily stationary and vulnerable to a tackle. As basic controls go they work well, but are hardly intuitive.
Thankfully a Penalties and Training Mode lets you get to further grips with the control system. The latter has drills on passing, free kicks, corners and more. After a session you'll feel much more comfortable playing FIFA 10, but the controls are still pretty bad.
Overall FIFA 10 is a decent free footy title while you're waiting for FIFA 11 to hit the Ovi Store. If you don't mind a bit of finger ache, go for it. You won't get a more comprehensive Ovi Store football title for free otherwise.
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