Codemasters benches Club Football series

By Tim Surette, GameSpotPosted Dec 13, 2004 1:02 pm PT

Individually branded soccer games suspended indefinitely to "reassess strategy in the football action genre."

Codemasters has announced that development on further editions of its Club Football series has been temporarily halted. With established soccer franchises such as Konami's Winning Eleven and Electronic Arts' FIFA series dominating the genre, establishing a new soccer franchise has proven difficult to kick off.

"We are taking time out to reassess our strategy in the football action genre," said Gary Dunn, Codemasters' development director. "It is an extremely competitive market sector and we will take what we have learnt and build on that for future development."

Codemasters has resolved the decision to suspend Club Football with minimal cuts internally. Most of those working on the series have been moved to other projects from Codemasters' library, and Codemasters reports that only 18 employees have been effected as a result of Club Football's postponing.

The series, individually branded soccer titles featuring specific Premiere league teams such as Manchester United and Newcastle, had its last edition, Club Football 2005, shipped in Europe in October for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC. Club Football 2005 was released in North America for the PC under the Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, and Real Madrid brands last month.

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SSJ4BlackRider
Posted Apr 17, 2006 11:53 am PT

to make club football at least stand up to the other big football games like pro evo and fifa they need to put something special in it that will make the fans of each club want to buy the game not just better realistic graphics for that team..
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