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This is it, the summer of dreams – the summer we’ll all remember. The one that we’ll be constantly waxing lyrical to our grand kids about, just like our grandads do to us with their memories of Moore, Best and Charlton lifting the cup in ‘66. It’s world cup time – c’mon you En-ger-land!

Let’s be honest, it’s easy to get sucked into the blind hope of glory as world cup fever sweeps the globe (not so blind if you’re lucky enough to be Spanish or Brazilian). It’s also way too easy to patriotically purchase every piece of clobber branded with your country’s flag. After all, this is a momentus, globe-uniting tournament that comes just once every 4 years – it’s natural for everybody to cash in however they can. Heck, even the Thirteen1 office will be littered with flags..the editor will see to that.

The most inevitable cash-in on the 2010 World Cup craze was always going to be football games, and EA have predictably kicked it all off with the tournament’s official pad-fodder for the summer, 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. Game releases like these couldn’t be more simple – just take FIFA 10, give it a quick lick of South African paint and sell it for a reduced price, right?
Well in most cases, yes, that’s a sound assumption to make, but not here. Instead, 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa is a mature, improved, well refined, full priced release that not only acts as the perfect complement to this summers football overdose, but also as a great stepping stone for the FIFA series.
Make no mistakes, FIFA World Cup 2010 improves on it’s predecessor in almost every possible way.

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