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Live The Dream As A Top Football Star
Updated:07:25, Tuesday May 27, 2008
A new interactive football game is set to come onto the market later this year.
Football SuperstarsFootball Superstars is a free to play football MMO, published by UK Company CyberSports. It is the world's first virtual footballing world - an interactive online virtual world designed for football fans to live a top footballer's lifestyle and is due for release in late 2008.
Once downloaded, players re-create themselves online as a footballer and then have free reign in the state of the art interactive virtual world. Players can play their way from three-a-side up to eleven-a-side matches, gaining attributes and skills in order to specialise in their chosen playing position.
Once the basic skills have been learned on the training pitch, players can choose between unranked casual games, ranked Football Superstars league matches organised by the game and player organised league matches with player manager clubs.
All will be backed up by extensive web support from developer Monumental Games, which would include downloadable replay videos of every competitive match. All the players - with the exception of the goalkeepers - are controlled by humans, leaving it as close an experience to the real thing as you can get, with the run of play shaped by the 20 human players.
Players are paid for the games they play in Football Superstars currency, of which there are two types-dollars and bonds. The bonds can be bought with real money and used to purchase special privileges and items.
Again, following the real world, the higher the level you play the higher your wages, all of which can then be spent in the game's two vast virtual towns, which have the capacity to host millions of other football fans online at the same time. Away from the pitch you can socialise in restaurants, bars and clubs and visit shops where you can buy the latest branded football equipment - which aids your progress on the pitch - and designer clothes.
