226. 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa - 360
I was able to restrain myself from getting this until June 22nd of 2010. Anyone who knows what happened that day knows exactly why my friends and I then got this game. I was really impressed by how much it had improved over FIFA 2010. It felt a lot more fluid. The first thing we did was each pick a nation, and take them as far as we could. I picked Denmark, a friend of mine whose first time it was playing FIFA (Eric) picked Spain, another friend who was decent (Devin) picked the Netherlands, and my friend of who's a god damn FIFA maniac (Jeremy) picked Northern Ireland.
Three of us made it through qualifying, though I had to make a pretty good run at the end. Eric was out already. >__>
Then we got to group stages. None of us were drawn into the same group, so we were pretty excited to keep going, to see who would play each other first. I got the easiest draw, and went 3-0-0, while Jeremy lost to France in his group, and had to win his last two to advance. Devin got upset by Japan, and drew with some South American team, and was eliminated there.
Jeremy and I stormed through our respective first-round games, where the US lost to Brazil (FFFF-). I also blew through the quarterfinals, while Jeremy had to come from behind to knock off Mexico. Meanwhile, upstart Nigeria somehow beat England to also make the semifinals to play Jeremy, whereas I had to play ****in' Brazil.
Jeremy's game came first, and he was down 4-1 with about 10 minutes left. He got upset, and restarted the game, and next time, he came back from 2 down to win 3-2, with me laughing at him the whole time. Then for my game, I wasn't doing too well against Brazil, as they outclassed me in pretty much every way, but I was keeping them out of the back of the net. About 60 minutes through, I actually scored on a cross, and went crazy. I held on for as long as I could, but they finally equalized with about 10 minutes left, then put the nail in my coffin with just a few minutes left. Jeremy refused to let me restart (what a bunghole). In the final, somehow, Jeremy then beat Brazil 3-0 to win the World Cup as Northern Ireland. It should've been me in that final, but whatever, it was still a lot of fun.
We started another one with new teams right afterward, but then my friend's 2-year old daughter knocked over the 360 while we were playing, so that was the end of 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. I keep looking for this game, because I know it will go back down in price eventually, but with just a month until FIFA 12, I suppose I should probably give up on it.
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