Ubisoft's new Football Game Announced - Pure Football

Scutch said:
People wanted a remake of something like Football Kingdom, purely for how accessible and fun it was to play, and they get something like this - which, let's be fair, doesn't look as bad as folk are making out - and yet still the moans take centre stage.

Fact is, we're all going to have to wait several more months at least for the next generation installment of football simulation to arrive, that's if it ever does. For the time being, this could be a decent and fun game which will detract from all the bugs and stupid little niggles of PES and FIFA.

Or it might fail badly. It probably will.
Click to expand...

It will probably fail. It does look terrible, I'm just hope that this is an 'experimental' type game. They have the very basic form of a football game and as long as it has good solid fundamentals and nice fluid collision physics and animations, i think communities like this one could help ubisoft make a proper sim in the future.

The key is simple. Can this engine ubisoft have built be turned into a simulation? We will have to wait an see when we see some ingame footage. If it has the potential, i feel it would be great if we could all help ubisoft in telling them what is needed to make a good football sim (they will need our help)

Ubisoft can't be that stupid to think releasing a series of 5 vs 5 arcadey football games with shit graphics will trouble FIFA or PES
 
Sadly I don't think anyone will even try to match or better Konami or EA when it comes to football games. I guess they feel they stand to lose too much. It's certainly a risk taking on either.
 
Ubisoft can't be that stupid to think releasing a series of 5 vs 5 arcadey football games with shit graphics will trouble FIFA or PES
Click to expand...

Eh? Who said they are even attempting to challenge them?

Cheap development, maybe using the assasins creed engine (they did for a snowboard game), setting your focus well away from PES and FIFA, minimal licensing (17 teams! FFS) and minimal asset building ( PES's training ground). They aren't stupid, they see it as a very obvious area to sell a footiegame. And they are combining two classics of the modern age, FIFA Street and Adidas Power Soccer!

Can't go wrong! :D

The only error they made is releasing it with the WC game, had they released it last year or next year they might have made a decent amount of money on it.
 
What doesn't bode well for me is that the game comes out in only two months, yet this is the first announcement Ubisoft have made. With most games the PR build-up starts 6 months, a year, or longer before release. To suddenly drop a game on the market like this kind of says to me it's not a good product.

However, I do hope that this is just a springboard for Ubisoft so that they can move over into the football sim market in the coming years. But for now this is not what I want. I couldn't care less about 'street' football - I want the real thing.
 
Page 2 and still no one has said the...

Pure Football?

Pure shit!

two classics of the modern age, FIFA Street
Click to expand...

FIFA Street is a classic ?

huh.jpeg
 
Last edited:
TikTikTikTikTik said:
Eh? Who said they are even attempting to challenge them?

Cheap development, maybe using the assasins creed engine (they did for a snowboard game), setting your focus well away from PES and FIFA, minimal licensing (17 teams! FFS) and minimal asset building ( PES's training ground). They aren't stupid, they see it as a very obvious area to sell a footiegame. And they are combining two classics of the modern age, FIFA Street and Adidas Power Soccer!

Can't go wrong! :D

The only error they made is releasing it with the WC game, had they released it last year or next year they might have made a decent amount of money on it.
Click to expand...

Why pay 50+ dollars for a 5 a side arcade game when you could pay the same amount for another much better arcade football game (world cup 2010 by EA Sports???)
 
It's pretty simple if you look at it, the simulation part of football gaming has two big names that has very loyal fanbases that is hard to take down, true over the top arcade football has little or no competition, at least as in an established game series, in todays gaming world.

But I had hoped they'd at least tried to go for PES/FIFA, but it's a logical move.

Hopefully FIFA 3v3/5v5 Arcade will come out this year too and if so I'm pretty sure that'll take down Pure Football, not only on the name FIFA but also quality-wise seeing as the previous Arcade sports titles has been very interesting.
 
Ahhhhhhhhh

Was Addidas Power Soccer the game where you had a guy who could jump with the ball, a guy who could push people over, a diving specialist and someone who could kick the ball and set it on fire?
 
Last edited:
I don't even know why they'd waste the money on making it. Its genuinely embarassing, the non ingame footage fmv's were always meant to be the good part of the game from the time it looks like it came from (90's) then the game was nowhere near as good... to think that what we've just seen is the best they could produce to sell it is horrendous.

Playing it outdoors is also the laziest game development i've ever seen.. oh look, we only have to produce one 'stadium', maybe we could change the trees on a couple of them and say they are in different countries.
 
You can just tell this is gonna be a game getting 5/10 at most and it'll bomb sales wise.

The type your nan might buy you for your birthday/christmas because she saw a football video game for dirt cheap in Asda and figured you'd like it.
 
What a terrible screenshot. I wonder if they natively develop for mobile devices and then port the game straight to next gen consoles...
 
The surroundings look nice though :D.

@ Rad,

I think so, what I remember was being able to do high two footed "tackles", have a button combo to have super fast running and also the possiblity to have supershots that even when the goalie saved them he would get pushed into his own goal with ball in his arms. Like I said, a classic. ;)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom