FIFA10 Wii boasts good controls and franchise mode that you come to expect from EA's famed Football sim series.
FIFA10's gameplay is easy, this is too bad considering football is a hard sport to score in. It just seems to easy, almost like the game wants you to score 5 goals a match. Now when i say easy I mean for hardcore gamers, casual gamers or little kids will find it rather hard. This sense of over-easyness really shows when playing with your buds or mates, it just turns into a goalfest of major proportions. By this I mean my mates and I have matches ending with the score of 11-9 and such. Not only can this be fun, it still seeems to easy and unrealistic.
Other than the easy gameplay, its quite traditional to the 3D FIFA series. It is your standard, over the top hawk view camera. Shoot and passing are as simple as pressing a button for both control styles, offering a quite generic gameplay experiance you would have expected from the series. New tot he series though is the new free kick mini game modes, in which you must stop your player on a colored line that is lableed as poor shot, decent shot, and superb. If you hit the red part and poor the ball skimmies over the net and no goal is rewarded to you. Now if you stop your player on green or yellow (superb or decent) the shot will enter an action camera mode in which the ball floats in the air and then glows green for your enemy or friend to shake is remote as it turns green. Once it isnt green it automatically scores and then starts the celebration and "WHOS BAD!" calling. Not only are these little mini games that also take place in corner kicks, fun and hectic, it makes multiplayer a heck of a lot better. Also when scoring if you shake your WiiMote and nunchuck trigger a little crowd on your wiimotes speaker with cheers and blow horns, also making scoring more fun to gloat in.
The controls in FIFA10 Wii are indeed the funnest ive seen in awhile. Using the nunchuck and Wiimote is a blast! It just feels right in your hands and you will soon be mastering the art of football. Sadly scoring is just flat out ridicoulusly easy. Just shake the remote and it goes perfect everytime, not only is this annoying from a realistic standpoint, it would just flat out never happen. The fact you can shoot with 4 guys on you and simply shake the remote and the ball goes in is just annoying. While playing with friends you will occasionaly say "Oh, sorry mate... that wouldnt of been a goal".
Now to the horrible control set-up, yeah the "All-play" mode, which is indeed the worse ive ever seen. This mode not only shouldnt be played, it shouldnt even be on the game! Its just horrible, you dont control the players movement which leads to frustrating A.I. control and when shooting you can simply score from anywhere past the half line. All-play is horrible and I dont know why they would even keep it going on EA sports games.
The Franchise or Road to Glory mode for FIFA10 is simply awesome for the Wii console, in which it was specifaly designed for it. Its not only a blast to play games and earn chances to enhance your team through boasters, the set up is just great. You can pick from a ton of club teams from my favorite the Barclays premier to the MLS, either way you have many many choices and lots of player to transfer to your team. The unique aspect to the Wii's exclusive franchise mode is the fact you give your players, the fans, and televison a promise. Like "We wont let Chelsea score 2 goals againist us" Then it will say that promise is worth +4 points, in which once you earn these points that amount of points is added to your teams skill level making for some real fun. Once you have completed these promises you level up to get boasters that make a certain postioning of players better at shootung or tackiling. Either way this mode is just tons of fun.
The online multiplayer and 4 player local multiplayer is a blast. Playing with someone you dont know or just socking it out with your mates, scoring goals, slide tackling, free kicks, and getting red cards is just a blast. And with so many teams to choose from there shoudlnt be a concern about variety.
All in all FIFA10 Wii is a well executed football sim all football fans should play and enjoy