This week's show features Nathan, Cundy, George and Dave H as they discuss the important games of E3 2010, developers surnames that vaguely sound like Mortal Kombat phrases and of course, whatWe can just about understand the way things used to be. When games came on cartridges, the only way you could play a sports game with the correct player names was to either type them all in yourself (which took hours), or buy the newest licensed version. But things have changed.
The advent of DLC has meant that all games could, in theory, be updated via a patch downloaded from the internet. This could either be for free (like the
Everyone gets lucky in games. Whether it's a fluke knife throw in Modern Warfare 2 or a foul that goes unpunished in FIFA, there's almost always the chance that something 'lucky' will happen in a game.
But are some games actually based on luck? Are you ever truly in control of your destiny?
This week the team talk about how they build features, what character they'd be in a game and Cundy's impressive 'tache
FIFA is brilliant for forgetting real football and rewriting history, as those of us who spend hours holding back the tears and replaying England’s highest profile disasters can attest (Germany ’96, Argentina ’98 and - ooof - Portugal 2006). And with FIFA 10’s My Live Season, you can do it every week, replaying the fixtures of your favourite team, and powering them to the top of the league with Stalinist fervour.