

Press the button of your preferred man and you're away. In single-player mode, the camera even swings round behind the man on the ball, with up-field players denoted by different joypad buttons. EA's big shouting point this year is the new Off The Ball control system, whereby - as the name suggests - you take control of a player off the ball and attempt to take up a decent position to receive it. The code clearly has a long way to go before it can be considered playable, but changes are afoot. Journalist from a rival publication, before the game crashed (again). Hours and hours of it - at one point racking up an impressive 5-0 scoreline against a hapless In fact, during PC day at EA Canada we didn't see a single football. Less encouraging was the fact that at lunchtime the goalposts were shifted to make way for a five-a-side frisbee contest. It was, therefore, somewhat encouraging to discover that EA's Vancouver studio does at least boast a football pitch, albeit one with some absurdly dimensioned markings. The beautiful game ravaged by hockey-playing Canucks. The long - running FIFA series may be the best-selling football game of all time, but what has always irked the purists about it is that it's made in Canada.
