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FIFA 10 for PlayStation Portable
FIFA 10 for PlayStation Portable brings club football and internationals together in a football game featuring real teams and players from the 2009–2010 season. You build attacks with short passes, look to the wings for a cross and choose when to play a through ball. A scouting report gives you information about your opponent beforehand. You can see which players need attention and how the other team usually attacks or defends. You can start a single match straight away or choose a longer competition.
In Be a Pro: Club and Country, you control one footballer. Good positioning, well-timed runs into space and useful actions earn experience that improves your player. Your club performances help you work towards a place in the national team. Season lets you play a complete club season without managing finances. Manager also puts you in charge of squad and contract decisions. You can adjust formations and playing style to change how your side takes to the pitch.
You play alone against the computer or compete locally over wireless with two players. Using your own game copies on two PSP systems with wireless networking, you connect via ad hoc while nearby. This does not require an EA server. Do not count on the original internet matches. You save your profile, career and progress on a Memory Stick Duo so you can resume a competition later.
Region and language
Our PlayStation Portable games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
You receive the physical UMD edition. You need a PSP with a UMD drive to play it; a PSP Go cannot play this disc.
Manual
FIFA 10 for PlayStation Portable includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of FIFA 10
FIFA 10 was released in 2009 under Electronic Arts' EA SPORTS label. HB Studios made the PlayStation Portable adaptation, with EA Canada involved in the wider project. The annual series followed changing club squads and continued serving PSP alongside the home consoles. The handheld had a separate edition with its own presentation and controls, rather than simply the same game as on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
The PSP edition built on FIFA 09's football foundation. Team Styles and scouting reports provided more information about clubs' approaches, while changes to goalkeepers, crossing and player switching updated the flow of matches. The focus was on refining an existing handheld game. The 360-degree control system from the larger consoles was not carried over to this PSP version. Its controls remained tailored to the handheld's buttons and analog nub.
Be a Pro gained the Club and Country addition, taking players from club football towards a national squad ahead of the 2010 World Cup. Season also arrived as a club calendar without Manager's financial duties. This edition offered different ways to follow a football season: through the whole team, running a club or one player's career. Squads and competitions reflect the original release period.
Similar games for PlayStation Portable
PES 2010 on PSP also offers club and international matches, a long-term team career and a career for one footballer. Konami uses Master League and Become a Legend for these, while FIFA uses Manager and Be a Pro. FIFA 10 also adds scouting reports and the separate Season calendar. PES features the official Champions League tournament as a recognizable part of its offering; FIFA divides its focus between its club season and an international player career.
FIFA Street 2 on PSP uses famous footballers in small street teams. You perform tricks, juggle the ball and build spectacular combinations rather than completing a conventional league match with eleven players. FIFA 10 demands more attention to formations, offside and covering space across a large pitch. Both let you take the ball past a defender, but Street mainly rewards performing tricks and humiliating your opponent.
World Tour Soccer 2 on PSP combines football with short challenges where passing, possession and good play earn points. World Tour and Medal give you objectives that go beyond the final score. FIFA 10 offers longer structures through a club calendar, contract decisions and the development of one professional. Where Sony gives you individual tests to complete, FIFA offers more opportunity to follow the same squad through a complete football season.
Virtua Tennis 3 on PSP also lets you train your own athlete and improve through matches. Your tennis player develops through exercises and minigames before facing famous professionals on court. In FIFA 10, you develop a footballer by fulfilling his role in a team. Finding space and marking opponents replace shot selection and positioning behind the baseline. The other FIFA sections also give you control over a complete team and its season.
SSX on Tour on PSP also offers a sporting career where your performances unlock new challenges. You choose skis or a snowboard and seek speed and jumps on snowy slopes. FIFA 10 keeps you within the lines of a football pitch, and Be a Pro assesses aspects such as your position within the team. SSX moves from one descent to the next trick or race; FIFA structures its progress around matches, competitions and club squads.
