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Football
By Mark R Lewis
Type in football game into your browser and you will get thousands of free football games to play and download. Whether you want to play football games online, find football manager games to download or just play a simple arcade style free kick simulator you will pretty much find whatever you want online.
A lot of these games are terrible - but they know it -so there is a certain amount of cheesy fun to be had from curling shots round an ever widening wall as the difficulty increases.
Gamers and football fans though are increasingly looking to the net to provide higher quality football games either 3D console format games or football manager downloads. Now the net is not sentient and cannot respond directly to these searches but the people who use it are. Well most of them are sentient but this author suspects that an alarmingly large number of users are scoring very low on the Glasgow Coma scale.
The FIFA series and Championship (Football) Manager games are probably the best known and used football games in the business at the moment and this has been the case for over 10 years. You may thus say "It is therefore, my dear fellow, high time that the web designers got off their lazy updating backsides and invented something new" and you would be right. There are only so many updates you can make to Championship Manager before you actually make it easier to really manage a football club rather than virtually do it.
Football games have been lucky in that the technology has kept advancing and allowed so many new additions to be made to the original game formats but their complexity is such that people are now looking at diversifying the complexity away from the game parameters and into the internet.
Instead of making football games that are mammoth RAM crunching memory repositories gamers are moving into the virtual world where the game can be kept simple but the interactions between other users make the game play complex. It also gives it a human subtlety of a kind that the writers of Star Trek never tired of discussing with Data, Shakespeare and, invariably, dreadful jokes.
But I digress. Those that play computer football games like all gamers are always seeking the holy grail of complexity, originality and accessibility. The old formats tended to give 2 of 3 but there is a new genre that promises the 3 out of 3 score and those are football games that are of the massively multi player online game format.
Type in football game into your browser and you will get thousands of free football games to play and download. Whether you want to play football games online, find football manager games to download or just play a simple arcade style free kick simulator you will pretty much find whatever you want online.
A lot of these games are terrible - but they know it -so there is a certain amount of cheesy fun to be had from curling shots round an ever widening wall as the difficulty increases.
Gamers and football fans though are increasingly looking to the net to provide higher quality football games either 3D console format games or football manager downloads. Now the net is not sentient and cannot respond directly to these searches but the people who use it are. Well most of them are sentient but this author suspects that an alarmingly large number of users are scoring very low on the Glasgow Coma scale.
The FIFA series and Championship (Football) Manager games are probably the best known and used football games in the business at the moment and this has been the case for over 10 years. You may thus say "It is therefore, my dear fellow, high time that the web designers got off their lazy updating backsides and invented something new" and you would be right. There are only so many updates you can make to Championship Manager before you actually make it easier to really manage a football club rather than virtually do it.
Football games have been lucky in that the technology has kept advancing and allowed so many new additions to be made to the original game formats but their complexity is such that people are now looking at diversifying the complexity away from the game parameters and into the internet.
Instead of making football games that are mammoth RAM crunching memory repositories gamers are moving into the virtual world where the game can be kept simple but the interactions between other users make the game play complex. It also gives it a human subtlety of a kind that the writers of Star Trek never tired of discussing with Data, Shakespeare and, invariably, dreadful jokes.
But I digress. Those that play computer football games like all gamers are always seeking the holy grail of complexity, originality and accessibility. The old formats tended to give 2 of 3 but there is a new genre that promises the 3 out of 3 score and those are football games that are of the massively multi player online game format.
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