Fifa online is a complete soccer game, with very beautiful 3D graphics, with absolutely similar real players, with real names and soccer teams from all over the world. The game is multiplayer so you can compete with other real players, at any time of the day or night, to beat for points. The most important thing is that this Fifa online is absolutely free and you can download and play on Windows PC, for free, forever (it says "free and unlimited") To all football fans I recommend at least one test of Fifa online also because, I am sure, it will be a success for next year and will only improve.
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To download the game, access the official EA FIFA Online Beta page with an Internet Explorer or Firefox browser, press the Register Now button, enter your email for registration, receive confirmation and proceed towards the installation of a browser plugin or ActiveX control.
Always keeping the web page open and continuing for the client installation procedure (just say yes or always forward), the download of the real game starts which weighs the beauty of about 950 MB.
At the beginning I was also pessimistic about the heaviness of the game to download but, trying, I noticed that the download is fast enough and above all that it can be interrupted and continued the next day from where it left off.
Since it is a beta, the game is still in development so it is possible that, occasionally, you need to download updates and patches of the game.
To start the game or to continue downloading, you must always start from the web browser, Internet Explorer 8 or Firefox which are the only two supported, log in with your name and password and press the " Play Now " button to begin.
Fifa online, for the moment, is only in English but should be translated into other languages, including Italian, during this year.
As you can see from the initial tutorial, to play football Fifa multiplayer you don't need a keyboard or a joypad, you just need the mouse with a fairly original control mode.
Basically it is a point and click control system : to move the player on the field, click with the mouse on a part of the field and wait for the player to run towards that point, whether he has the ball between his feet, or chase your opponent.
To shoot, use the left mouse button and the shot is more powerful the more you keep it pressed.
Even if you have to get a little familiar at the beginning, the mouse game system is good and also fun.
however, you can choose, if you don't like it with the mouse, whether to play only with the keyboard or with the joypad.
The graphics of the game are not at the level of FIFA 2010 game for pc, playstation and Xbox that you buy at the store but it is still very valid, with 3D animations and players designed in a realistic way .
Even the sound effects are also engaging with the game commentary (for now only in English).
The multiplayer phase is based on the Electronic Arts servers and, considering that it is in beta phase, it can be said that they are already well advanced.
I am referring in particular to the "lag", the main flaw of online games with 3D graphics.
Lag means that if the opponent moves his players, I see him with a few moments of delay and, in a fast game like football, it could be a problem.
In the end, the games I played were quite fluid and playable.
You can play in multiplayer by playing dry games or participating in a tournament that, for the moment, is the World Cup.
Each win is awarded points and money with which to improve your team and with which you can buy stronger players.
In the game, you can also buy gadgets and technical improvements with micro money payments which, I hope, are not decisive to win the games.
In the options you can choose whether to play in full screen or in a window on the Windows desktop, the graphic effects, the shooting camera and the audio.
Among the game modes there are the League that can be played alone or in the company of a friend, on the same team .
There is the Fifa World Cup with world competition alone or in multiplayer and the Versus mode which is the online game where you play against other real players.
I personally believe that it is an excellent game, if only because it is free and because there are very few online football games of this type.
I said a few articles ago that Power Soccer is the best free online 3D soccer game; we must now judge whether Fifa online is better or not and whether it is more or less fun.
