his month something extremely unusual happened in the video game world: someone launched a new football game. It used to be that the market could support a vast array of contenders, from arcade kickabouts such as Super Sidekicks and Hat Trick Hero, to serious simulations named Actua Soccer or This Is Football, to eccentric oddities such as Namcos LiberoGrande which made you experience the whole match as a single onfield player. For the past decade plus, however, the scene has been dominated E
