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Codemasters are working on a football game that allows you to recreate an image of yourself and play alongside and with your favourite team.
Great idea you may think, sure sounds good, doesn't it?
There's a catch though. They are thinking of releasing this new game branded as 'team specific'. So whilst you will be able to by the Manchester United version, there isn't a Bolton Wanderers version. Nor is there a Spurs edition. In fact only 6 teams out of the full Premiership are pencilled in for their own game.
The 15 teams in total are:
AC Milan
Ajax
Arsenal
Aston Villa
FC Barcelona
FC Bayern Munich
Borussia Dortmund
Chelsea
Hamburg SV
Inter Milan
Juventus
Leeds United
Liverpool
Manchester United
Rangers
Now whereas I'm not averse to playing alongside Beckham, Giggs and Keane, I'd much rather be feeding balls into the box for Alan Shearer. And roughly 7/10ths of the football fans who play games who haven't had their team represented in the Codemaster's lineup would probably feel the same way and want to have their team represented too.
From a marketing point of view, do Codemasters really think that they aren't alienating 50% of all Scottish footie fans by not having Celtic in their list? Or did they do some research and discover that Celtic fans don't own consoles or something?
Codemasters are trying something new here, which is good. Games that are 'tailor-made' for us are something that we could only dream of in the past, and Codies are trying to cater for that in some small way with this idea.
I'm personally not upset that they haven't included Newcastle United FC in their list, who knows, they may appear later if demand increases? And it won't stop me buying Codies' games in the future, their TOCA range is always worth the pennies.
It'll just probably stop me buying this particular game, that's all.
Great idea you may think, sure sounds good, doesn't it?
There's a catch though. They are thinking of releasing this new game branded as 'team specific'. So whilst you will be able to by the Manchester United version, there isn't a Bolton Wanderers version. Nor is there a Spurs edition. In fact only 6 teams out of the full Premiership are pencilled in for their own game.
The 15 teams in total are:
AC Milan
Ajax
Arsenal
Aston Villa
FC Barcelona
FC Bayern Munich
Borussia Dortmund
Chelsea
Hamburg SV
Inter Milan
Juventus
Leeds United
Liverpool
Manchester United
Rangers
Now whereas I'm not averse to playing alongside Beckham, Giggs and Keane, I'd much rather be feeding balls into the box for Alan Shearer. And roughly 7/10ths of the football fans who play games who haven't had their team represented in the Codemaster's lineup would probably feel the same way and want to have their team represented too.
From a marketing point of view, do Codemasters really think that they aren't alienating 50% of all Scottish footie fans by not having Celtic in their list? Or did they do some research and discover that Celtic fans don't own consoles or something?
Codemasters are trying something new here, which is good. Games that are 'tailor-made' for us are something that we could only dream of in the past, and Codies are trying to cater for that in some small way with this idea.
I'm personally not upset that they haven't included Newcastle United FC in their list, who knows, they may appear later if demand increases? And it won't stop me buying Codies' games in the future, their TOCA range is always worth the pennies.
It'll just probably stop me buying this particular game, that's all.
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Great idea, but why shoot yourself in the foot by including a handful of teams? Codemasters could have been onto a winner there
Codemasters are working on a football game that allows you to recreate an image of yourself and play alongside and with your favourite team.
Great idea you may think, sure sounds good, doesn't it?
There's a catch though. They are thinking of releasing this new game branded as 'team specific'. So whilst you will be able to by the Manchester United version, there isn't a Bolton Wanderers version. Nor is there a Spurs edition. In fact only 6 teams out of the full Premiership are pencilled in for their own game.
The 15 teams in total are:
AC Milan
Ajax
Arsenal
Aston Villa
FC Barcelona
FC Bayern Munich
Borussia Dortmund
Chelsea
Hamburg SV
Inter Milan
Juventus
Leeds United
Liverpool
Manchester United
Rangers
Now whereas I'm not averse to playing alongside Beckham, Giggs and Keane, I'd much rather be feeding balls into the box for Alan Shearer. And roughly 7/10ths of the football fans who play games who haven't had their team represented in the Codemaster's lineup would probably feel the same way and want to have their team represented too.
From a marketing point of view, do Codemasters really think that they aren't alienating 50% of all Scottish footie fans by not having Celtic in their list? Or did they do some research and discover that Celtic fans don't own consoles or something?
Codemasters are trying something new here, which is good. Games that are 'tailor-made' for us are something that we could only dream of in the past, and Codies are trying to cater for that in some small way with this idea.
I'm personally not upset that they haven't included Newcastle United FC in their list, who knows, they may appear later if demand increases? And it won't stop me buying Codies' games in the future, their TOCA range is always worth the pennies.
It'll just probably stop me buying this particular game, that's all.
Great idea you may think, sure sounds good, doesn't it?
There's a catch though. They are thinking of releasing this new game branded as 'team specific'. So whilst you will be able to by the Manchester United version, there isn't a Bolton Wanderers version. Nor is there a Spurs edition. In fact only 6 teams out of the full Premiership are pencilled in for their own game.
The 15 teams in total are:
AC Milan
Ajax
Arsenal
Aston Villa
FC Barcelona
FC Bayern Munich
Borussia Dortmund
Chelsea
Hamburg SV
Inter Milan
Juventus
Leeds United
Liverpool
Manchester United
Rangers
Now whereas I'm not averse to playing alongside Beckham, Giggs and Keane, I'd much rather be feeding balls into the box for Alan Shearer. And roughly 7/10ths of the football fans who play games who haven't had their team represented in the Codemaster's lineup would probably feel the same way and want to have their team represented too.
From a marketing point of view, do Codemasters really think that they aren't alienating 50% of all Scottish footie fans by not having Celtic in their list? Or did they do some research and discover that Celtic fans don't own consoles or something?
Codemasters are trying something new here, which is good. Games that are 'tailor-made' for us are something that we could only dream of in the past, and Codies are trying to cater for that in some small way with this idea.
I'm personally not upset that they haven't included Newcastle United FC in their list, who knows, they may appear later if demand increases? And it won't stop me buying Codies' games in the future, their TOCA range is always worth the pennies.
It'll just probably stop me buying this particular game, that's all.
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