Middling Fun Kicker

Ahead of the releases to Pure Football was especially promised one thing: in this game, there should be football in its purest form. Intense, tough but fair, is the motto. No yellow or red card, not eleven players in a team, but only five. Unlike the big games in this genre, FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer, Pure Football is not on realism and is more of a competitor for Fifa Street. 3

The gameplay

The controller turns out quite simple. There is one button for forward pass, powerful shot, pass into the path as well as or for a high ball a cross in. Defensively these buttons with Sliding, Tackling, Press Ball, Goalkeeper, attack and defense are second (to double by the opponent) is. After 1-2 games they should each have imprinted. The special feature of this game should be the Pure display. This fills up by tricks and shots that do not go into the goal. Is it filled, you can give the "Pure Shot". This is much harder than a normal powerful shot, is also more accurate. Even if the ball just flying towards the goalkeeper, this it can usually only bouncing forward. Whenever you have some free space, you should therefore around trick to fill the bar. The defenders are condemned aggressive and hard in the tackle, so you will lose a lot of balls at the beginning. After a time you get used to it and has found the right rhythm when and where you have to fit in order to keep the ball in their own ranks. Another special feature is that only very hard fouls whistled, such as an entry from behind in the legs. Immediately there is a penalty, no matter where the foul occurred. However, this is extremely annoying. Why can not give a free-kick is not easy when the opponent is placed in the midfield to the case? It is particularly annoying that sometimes easy boarding is considered a penalty. Also lugubrious is the camera angle from the shoulder perspective, however, this does not fall so negatively significant as the permanent penalty. Well done, however, are the corners. The aim here is to push the indicated knob at the right moment. Although is quite simple, yet fun. The tactical options are extremely limited, so you can just your team defensively, offensively or offset adjust.

Fresh Campaign Mode

A big plus for Pure Football is unquestionably the campaign mode. First you create your captain, the man who is to lead the team. After their position and appearance have determined you make yourselves to the colors of the shirts, the name of the team, you can also select the club logo. The captain is always erected, the remaining 4 players sit down at the beginning of unfamiliar players together. But with this you can win a potted plant, so you have to compete in various events in order to unlock players of the opposing teams. For each player there is a specific task. If you want to enable the Ivorian Salomon Kalou, you must, for example 2 goals Score a Pure shot, then you can place it in the next game. For any footballer, there are other challenges and by this same will your team be gradually equipped with better players. Loser team for world-class team, it should be in the best case. The already mentioned above events are relatively varied. So there is even the KO tournament which first-with-game (the first team with a prescribed number of goals wins) or the game on time. Your self-made player can improve, of course. You gain skill points, this it assigns to then. If you unlock good players and a lot of games to win, you should your team soon find among the world leaders.

Graphics? Average - but the most beautiful squares in Europe

The graphics are not as expected all the rage. The players are shown excessively comic, football fans can still see their idols. On the other hand become beautiful are the places and most of all they are varied. You play in factories, in a glass house in Liverpool, in the beautiful port city of Marseille or in Barcelona. So the game is never really monotonous. On the football field runs an almost warlike music which probably build more tension and thus to underline the football ground atmosphere. In addition, constant interjections like coming "Over here" or "I am free". These nerves over time a bit. The music menu is also nothing special and has put together somewhat carelessly in some places.

Conclusion

Pure Football has some positive moments, but also shows a lot of shade. Somehow it did not really managed to develop such a really nice football ground game Ubisoft. On the one hand is not realism, but will not yet be as unrealistic as Fifa Street 3. But the real center was not found. Negative striking are the whistled in mass penalty, the camera angle, and graphics. Along with friends like this game certainly fun, otherwise is probably only the successful campaign mode captivate the single player some time. In the still very fair price and because most are due to the danger of the World Cup football fever anyway, the game can be without problems down times. People who are more into realism, I would recommend EA's FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa.