Pure Futbol's announcement release corroborates our take on the trailer with a tagline that reads, "No referees, no rules – just soccer." It also further details your choice of footers, elaborating that "230 elite soccer players, 17 international teams, and 17 legendary players" are included, though you can also sculpt your own star from bits and polygons and shared or trade him with friends online. Will we finally be able to live out the dream of playing as a team full of Ezio Auditore lookalikes, engaged in fierce battle with a team full of Prince of Persia lookalikes? For now, all we can do is hope.
Pure Futbol slidetackling into retail this May from Ubisoft
by Ben Gilbert 
on Mar 4th 2010 5:00PM
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Pure Futbol's announcement release corroborates our take on the trailer with a tagline that reads, "No referees, no rules – just soccer." It also further details your choice of footers, elaborating that "230 elite soccer players, 17 international teams, and 17 legendary players" are included, though you can also sculpt your own star from bits and polygons and shared or trade him with friends online. Will we finally be able to live out the dream of playing as a team full of Ezio Auditore lookalikes, engaged in fierce battle with a team full of Prince of Persia lookalikes? For now, all we can do is hope.
Reader Comments (27)
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 5:37PM LaughingTarget said
The game would end in a draw. The opposing team would be lying dead on the field after 5 minutes and Team Ezio would have vanished in the crowd, suspiciously placed carts full of hay, and behind the concessions stand.
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Posted: Mar 5th 2010 6:59AM (Unverified) said
It wouldn't be football if you used your hands....
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 5:32PM aughscreennames said
Are they trying to differentiate themselves from american football by using the spanish word? I can see that as a reasonable marketing decision in the USA but it still seems silly, football is the original name for the sport while futbol is a translation. I cant help but cringe whenever people say futbol.
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 6:20PM aughscreennames said
So when the English invented football in the 1800's they decided to translate it to spanish and then use that as the official name? And then translate it later back to football?
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Posted: Mar 5th 2010 12:31AM Gral Zerato said
The spanish word for football -as Nekki said already- is balonpie -_-
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Posted: Mar 5th 2010 1:41PM LaughingTarget said
England didn't invent the sport, they were the first to call it soccer. It was a strange Oxford slang at the time that shortened words and added -er at the end. Association Football turned into Assocer which ended up in America as soccer.
The game itself was developed independently around the world. Forms of it were played by the Maya, Chinese, and Greeks long before England even existed. It has no original name to attach to the game.
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The game itself was developed independently around the world. Forms of it were played by the Maya, Chinese, and Greeks long before England even existed. It has no original name to attach to the game.
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 5:43PM blackmagic01 said
it's like they tried to take soccer and make it american football. It's like blitz but for soccer. It's like basketball but with hockey checking added.
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 7:39PM (Unverified) said
around the 19th century this so called "soccer" you talk about was way more violent than american "soccer".
lets imagine ubisoft is (probably unintended) trying to get football "back to its roots"
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lets imagine ubisoft is (probably unintended) trying to get football "back to its roots"
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 7:43PM (Unverified) said
looks like you can punch people in the face. i hope c. ronaldo and beckham are on the roster
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 8:14PM aughscreennames said
Its called association football, look it up. Some random ancient game where people kicked balls around is not the same thing, different rules = different games, do you know how many different games there are that involves kicking a ball?
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Posted: Mar 5th 2010 7:01AM (Unverified) said
Argentina is in Europe now? Sweet... always wanted to go there...
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