{"id":2003,"date":"2014-09-25T15:07:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T15:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2021-09-20T08:44:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T07:44:22","slug":"8-alternatives-to-fifa-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/09\/25\/8-alternatives-to-fifa-15\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Alternatives to FIFA 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>FIFA 16<\/i>, the latest edition of the world\u2019s biggest football game, is released this month. By the time you read this, thousands of people will be preparing to bang in goals and\/or scream at their virtual team of overpaid divas because they can\u2019t seem to pass in a straight line.<\/p>\n<p>Not all football fanatics will be snapping up EA\u2019s latest round of goals and glory, however; it could be that they don\u2019t have the money yet, or they might just not fancy EA\u2019s particular blend of football fun.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re one of those people, here are a few alternatives.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Pro Evolution Soccer 16<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HshfqDVGWJU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Pro Evolution Soccer <\/i>is the Manchester United of the football game world: after a few years of unrivalled success, it has been overtaken by its rival and has spent a few years in the wilderness. The good news is, like United, <em>Pro Evo <\/em>is on the way back up.<\/p>\n<p>This year, <i>Pro Evo<\/i> is going for the best football game title with some fancy new features &#8211; including an revamped Master League &#8211; added to the already-solid main engine.<\/p>\n<p>The only real downside is that Konami still don\u2019t have official licenses for many leagues, which means you\u2019ll be playing as West Midlands Village (Aston Villa), South Wales (Swansea City) and Hampshire Red (Manchester Un\u201d\u00a6- sorry, Southampton) in generic kits.<\/p>\n<p>If that doesn\u2019t bother you too much (you could always edit the team names if it does), give the Pro Evo 16 demo a go.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>New Star Soccer (iOS &amp; Android)<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/new-star-soccer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2005\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/new-star-soccer.jpg\" alt=\"new star soccer\" width=\"750\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/new-star-soccer.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/new-star-soccer-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If realistic graphics and tactics aren\u2019t your thing, then <i>New Star Soccer<\/i> might just be the game for you.<\/p>\n<p><i>NSS<\/i> is ridiculously simple: you control a single player and try to score goals and provide assists by dragging your finger across the screen and tapping where you want to hit the ball. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>On it\u2019s own, it\u2019d be a fun but eventually boring game. Luckily, <i>NSS<\/i> has an RPG element tacked onto it. You have to guide a player through his career; the better you play, the more likely you are to be signed up for a big team. You also have to help your player find a girlfriend and buy lots of nice stuff with all of his money &#8211; it\u2019s a tough life being a footballer.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Football Manager<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/football-manager.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2006\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/football-manager.jpg\" alt=\"Football Manager\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/football-manager.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/football-manager-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those who think <i>FIFA <\/i>isn\u2019t hardcore enough, there is <i>Football Manager<\/i>. The ultimate management sim lets you control almost every aspect of a football team from transfers to tactics (apart from, of course, the players on the pitch), and has gained a massive cult following.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the life of a manager is often stressful and definitely time-consuming. <i>Football Manager<\/i> will test your love of the beautiful game to its very limits, but those who persevere will no doubt feel proud once they\u2019ve led a Conference North side to the Champion\u2019s League Final.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Score! World Goals<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/score-world-goals.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2007\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/score-world-goals.png\" alt=\"Score World Goals\" width=\"765\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/score-world-goals.png 765w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/score-world-goals-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Score! World Goals <\/i>is actually more of a puzzle game than a football game, but don\u2019t let that put you off: it\u2019s still great fun.<\/p>\n<p><i>Score! <\/i>presents you with various classic real-life goals and asks you to recreate them by drawing lines on your screen. The more accurate your recreation of the goal, the more points you score &#8211; the more points you score, the more levels you unlock.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Flick Kick Football<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bQZAunws_rg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Flick Kick Football,<\/i> like <i>Score!<\/i>, is a relatively simple game where you score goals by flicking your finger across the screen. It doesn\u2019t offer anywhere near the depth of <i>FIFA<\/i>, but you\u2019ll get immense satisfaction from dispatching an inch-perfect free kick with a well-placed flick.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Fluid Football<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lpqxlR4NrAs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Fluid Football<\/i> is more or less the same game as <i>New Star Soccer<\/i>, except you get to dictate where other players run before placing your passes. Oh, and it also features the controversial duo of Richard Keys and Andy Grey on commentary.<\/p>\n<p>You can download <i>Fluid Football <\/i>for free, although an ad-free version is available for 69p.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Sensible World of Soccer<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zV7HaBeREzY\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Before <i>FIFA <\/i>and <i>Pro Evo<\/i>, there was <i>Sensible World of Soccer<\/i>. Originally released on the Amiga, the Xbox Live Arcade version is a direct port of the 1996\/97 version of the game (widely considered to be the best).<\/p>\n<p>If you like your football games to be ultra-realistic, this probably isn\u2019t the game for you. If you like a bit of arcade-y fun and a surprisingly in-depth career mode, however, <i>SWOS<\/i> might be worth a shot.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Old FIFAs<\/h4>\n<p>Now that <i>FIFA 16<\/i> is nearly out, you\u2019ll be able to pick up the old <i>FIFA <\/i>games for practically nothing. <i>FIFA 15<\/i> is the obvious choice if you want kind of up-to-date teams, but a lot of people prefer the slower-paced action of <i>FIFA 15, <\/i>while others enjoy the fast-paced <i>13 <\/i>and <em>12<\/em>. If you really want a throwback (and don\u2019t like the \u201d\u02dctactical defending\u2019 of new <i>FIFA<\/i> games), dig out <i>FIFA 11<\/i>!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If you\u2019re planning to buy <i>FIFA 15 <\/i>(or if you\u2019ve already bought it), <a title=\"sell your old FIFA games for cash with musicMagpie\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/entertainment\/trade-in-games\/\">sell your old <i>FIFA<\/i> games for cash with musicMagpie<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA 16, the latest edition of the world\u2019s biggest football game, is released this month. By the time you read this, thousands of people will be preparing to bang in goals and\/or scream at their virtual team of overpaid divas because they can\u2019t seem to pass in a straight line. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[593],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13095,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/13095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}