I'm pretty sure you can choose not to have friendlies. When you start a new World Cup just select the 'qualifying' option instead of 'full' and I think that removes them. Not 100% sure though.

I just won the World Cup, defeated Italy on penalties in the quarter finals and Spain 1-0 after some desperate defending in the Semi. Faced Germany in the Final and managed a 2-1 win after all 3 goals came in the second half of extra time.

Haha, a mate and I tried to take Mongolia to the World Cup. We drew a group of UAE, Thailand, and China. We got hammered by Turkmenistan in our first friendly (4-1 I think) and then secured three 0-0 draws in a row to start qualification. We then got taken to the cleaners by China away from home 4-0. It was a bit of fun but we knew we weren't going to qualify, so we gave up too and started qualification with Australia.

4-1-2-1-2 Formation here with Kewell and Mcdonald forming a fantastic partnership.

-----------Kewell--------Mcdonald-----------
--------------------Cahill-------------------
Bresciano-------------------------------Emerton
--------------------Grella----------------------
Williams-----Neil-----------Kisnorbo------Wilkshire
-----------------Swarchzer----------------------

Ahhhh, cool as trees. Does the game end after you qualify, or does it still go on to the cup. In other words, is it Case A or Case B?

Case A)
Cup = Cup only
Qualifying = Qualifying only
Full = Qualifying + Cup + Friendlies

Case B)
Cup = Cup only
Qualifying = Qualifying + Cup
Full = Qualifying + Cup + Friendlies

It's case B

ok, im thinking of buying this, but im not sure yet...ive seen an online price of $64 which is the cheapest but i cant wait 2 days for the delivery. any place selling it for cheaper or same price instore.

also, can you play as zimbabwe??

and is it really worth getting this?

I picked it up at Target where they had it on the shelf for $65.

ok, i think im going to get it but not right now.

2 reasons, need more cash and cant afford to be playing games now with assignments on.

Not gonna bother tbh. I don't care enough about International Football to buy this when I already have Fifa 10.

Haha I did it all the way from quals with a few mates.

Got a group of Brazil, Czech Repub and Venezuela.

Pumped Venezuela 5-1 (after going 0-1 down)
lost to brazil
Beat Czech 2-1

Got Serbia in R16 - Won 1-0
Argentina in Quarters - 1-0
France in the semi - 1-0
Spain in the final - 2-0 :)

Kewell top scorer haha

Lined up as such:

--------------Macca---Kennedy--------------
Kewell------------Cahill------------Bresciano
-------------------Wilkshire------------------
Chippers------Neill------Grella---------Emerton
-------------------Schwarz---------------------

Grella does suprisingly well at the back

Edited by imnofreak: 6/5/2010 04:11:10 PM

They have pretty 199 teams that are playable, but you cant use all of them in the World Cup qualifying campaign bit. Some teams can only be used from the Kick-off area, for one off matches (Montserrat, etc)

We tried with San Marino but it was too damn hard on WC so did it with Aus. :)

can you play with zimbabwe??? that would be my main concern..

Didn't check, and it was a mates game and I no longer have it.

damn, thats one of the reasons i want to buy it...to take zim to glory. hopefully you can use them as they would be part of the african qualifying zone.

I would assume you can play as Zimbabwe. Benjani carrying the team.

I think you can only use teams who didn't get knocked out in the first round of quals in their area? Like, did Zim ever make it to like the group stages of quals? If they made it that far they should be good.

i think they lost in the first phase of qualifying. i dont think they made it to the second round of group stages which sucks.

i just wanted to find out, i mean they would be the first team i use to see if i can qualify with and win the world cup too. its not that all their players are local too. they got some players who play outside our africa and doing well.

great game, much better than Fifa 10, Just qualified Australia on professional. Prices at the following places:

Myer : $64
JB Hifi: $64
KMART: $64
Target: $65
Big W: $68
EB /Game / Gametraders : $78-79

dandaman at big w its actaully now 63.85!! my wifes works at big w so i get it on discount so its like 58 bucks !!!!

I bought it from Gametraders because I like them.

I'm pretty sure that if a team got knocked out in prelim qualifying, that it wont be listed in the default groups. BUT you can replace teams, so you can just pick another shit team that made it and put Zim in instead.

With that said, Zim made it through to the first group stage of the CAF qualifying, so they should be there anyway. I mean, I played through qualifying (and lost) as Seychelles, who are worse than Zimbabwe, so you should have no trouble playing as them.

HOORAY!!!!!

guess that means ill go buy the game after work and i wont get any assignment work done this afternoon...ah well, all for a worthy cause i guess.

Yep, Zimbabwe is definitely there.

I think this is correct. A mate and I played as Mongolia, who were knocked out by North Korea and never made it to the first group stage of qualifying in the AFC. I'm pretty sure you can try to take any nation in the game to the World Cup, you just have to replace the teams (one shit team for another, basically) when it comes to sorting out the groups. All you have to do is replace a team (I think we replaced Tajikistan or something) with the team that you want to qualify with.

So for example, someone brought up Montserrat before. I'm sure that you could use them, as we played as Bermuda for a campaign, but we had to replace Suriname or something as they were one of the default teams.

When we did another qualification with Indonesia, we rigged the draw by replacing some teams with teams like Nepal and Bangladesh to make it a bit easier. It can be very frustrating to qualify with the smaller nations, but fun if you do get to the World Cup.

Sounds good, But I think I might save the money.

Renting it next weekend from Video Ezy. We have a voucher for new games. Something like one for $3.50

bought the game yesterday and quite love it. you can play as zim which is awesome. its tough playing as one of the weaker teams but its a nice challenge. ill finish zim, then do new zealand, aus, england and few other challenges i have in mind.

Best. Football. Game. Ever.

i hope fifa 11's like this

It would definitely be great if it was. I sure hope it is.

+1