Party atmosphere and World Cup Feeling: The Game for the Football World Cup 2014 focuses on the onset anticipation of the tournament in Brazil. The playful deficiencies are not compensated for the though.

On 15 June 1982, almost 23,000 spectators of a football game to witness. In Nuevo Estadio, a small stadium in southern Spain Elche, Large occurred on that day. Material for the history books: 10:1 just defeated the once great football nation in Hungary the unfortunate El Salvador. Eleven goals. To date, this group match is considered the highest-scoring World Cup game ever.

It is doubtful that the teams from Germany or Argentina or Honduras (June 12 to July 13) can crack this result at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. On consoles it looks different. Namely beginner-friendly WM offshoot appear for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 on April 17 with "Fifa World Cup Brazil" a very, well,.

12:11 ends about the first game of the editors between Paraguay and Argentina. About the absurdly high result, but no one is surprised - even the games previously surpassed all the ten-goal mark. Who has not, who wants to once again: The game of football for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil is like a shooting match.

Kick event for fans

Why is that? At first you do not care, because it is entertaining, every 30 seconds to come to a conclusion. A brisk change of direction, on the right flank, spans a huge hole, a short departure, gate. Unexpectedly, the agile but otherwise rather sedate "Fifa" Figurine present across the lawn. But ever such gaps in the defense? And where ever the midfield?

Oh never mind, bolt the ball just forward any faster player makes him clean already. In "Fifa World Cup Brazil" there is felt no center, constant forechecking is announced. What remains is a narrow-minded shock swap between assault and defense.

Safe: Such high speed is entertaining. After a few games but the flip side of the Torreigens is not to be overlooked: "Fifa World Cup Brazil 2014" does not have much in common with a simulation; provides significantly less depth of gameplay than its big brother "Fifa 14". A real arcade kick just as the saying goes. For example, the foolproof "two keys" control is enabled by default. And the computer level is out of the house to "beginners".

Of course, you change these settings, if necessary stuff you will not allow the intended holes in your team but parts. In addition, show the lax preferences, whereupon Electronic Arts with its world title squints: newbies. Event fans. Players, who play no "Fifa", but can be every four years, carried away in the turmoil of a world championship, sometimes to grab back to the controller.

Green-yellow flags

And the hustle and bustle, so much even know people who keep Pep Guardiola for a dry white wine, makes the world usually in a four-week state of emergency. This particular euphoria transport the developer dutifully: In the package insert all stages, all the teams that included original player name and plenty of Samba atmosphere.

It starts with the flashy redesign of the menu, carries over to the music and spills over to the kick-off. To see live images after goals from public viewing fan miles, brightly painted faces and fans first identifiable coach on the sidelines.

That behind little more than a umlackiertes "Fifa 14" layout and a few fresh cutscenes stuck: given. The title succeeds quite to spray a dash of green-yellow "Copa do Mundo" lifeblood.

Wars you lead?

If you want to get started off right at louder playfulness that can with the usual game modes "impulse" respectively "team captain" make. Otherwise, two more competitions come up: "History of the qualification" and "Road to Fifa World Cup 2014". In the first mode, you fight with your desire nation again by the real qualification.

The developers accentuate this shape the management of your players who want to be trained and employed now be evaluated. So you embody the trainer to work on pass behavior in your care, form them into dribbling monsters or monsters defense.

So a training pays off: After a successful unit, the total score increases a handful of kickers times just by one or two points (). Not bad. When Mesut Özil could so quickly improve his defensive skills only times in real ...

Change to I-steer-constantly-all-eleven-football

The second mode is a secret trump card of the title. In "History of the qualification" They maneuvered the game in certain scenarios. Example: On September 7, 2012 United must compete in Bulgaria. And the hosts put the Italians who play with ten men after the injury of De Rossi and fully exploited quota exchange only, under massive pressure.

Up to 86 minutes is 2-2. Just at this time you do business: Are you able to lead the Azzurri to victory against all odds?

In a later case, you should obtain in the form of Pedro Rodríguez Ledesma, the bustling winger of FC Barcelona, ​​a hat-trick with Spain against Belarus. The whole time from the players perspective - a welcome change from the mundane I-steer-constantly-all-eleven-football-day life. The scenario mode was football series has always been a favorite of gamblers. Nice that he's "Fifa World Cup Brazil" at the start.

Do you need "Fifa World Cup Brazil"?

And with a little luck, he is even in the next "Fifa" this part. Or again only in "Fifa Championship France 2016"? You remember: The release rate of new football title is high, appears every year, a new offshoot. And there is a big tournament on, lie between the publication narrow seven months - see "Fifa 14" and "Fifa World Cup Brazil 2014". So you wonder if the owner of the regular series need the World Cup spin-off at all.

A simple tournament mode offers any case, even the big brother. So if you sometimes just want to try to repeat the miracle of 1966 with the "Three Lions", which can easily do - but must be based on randomly generated groups and Fixtures Set. Quite possible that football powers such as Italy are not even. Tangible World Cup atmosphere comes as hardly noticeable. Since the World Cup spin-off is much closer to the action.

The bad news: This is not enough. Who "Fifa 14" plays regularly, will hardly be satisfied with "Fifa World Cup Brazil". It would feel like a step backwards. Because the World Cup spin-off is in all Copacabana flair to arcadig, with 70 euros not cheap - and he makes it all off graphically not a good figure.

This is a shame, because even "Fifa" veterans are quite willing to scroll money on the counter for a good World Cup ™. For Electronic Arts, however, would the current "Fifa 14" must use architecture and its clients may have fewer looking at so-called emerging markets. A DLC pack would have been a fair solution.

Conclusion: The kick to the World Cup in 2014 consumed by the onset anticipation of the tournament in Brazil and offers plenty of party atmosphere and WM feeling. Can compensate for the shortcomings of the playful mood factor, however. The developers focus their attention too much on "Fifa" greenies and shape the game to a pure arcade kick, reminiscent in terms of goals galore more like a handball as at a football game.

Only for this reason, even novices better advised to buy better "Fifa 14". Because let's face it: Ginge of each match 10:1 as 1982 that preliminary round match between Hungary and El Salvador - the World would be only half as exciting.