FIFA Online 2 Preview
FIFA Online 2 is a free way to play soccer while gaining experience points and item bonuses. The FIFA Online 2 concept’s pretty simple. It’s FIFA, but it’s a free-to-play PC version. You compete in matches online or against and AI and with each match watch as you amass experience for your players and they all level up. It’s also possible to win items from matches, such as performance enhancing water bottles, make a host of managerial decisions such as trading players online, and tinker with your team’s setup in a bunch of other ways we can’t really describe because the game’s text wasn’t in English.
FIFA Online 2 already out in South Korea and coming to Japan, China, Vietnam, and Thailand according to a representative at the Electronic Arts booth . Arrow keys controlled player movement and the WASD keys controlled all the pass and shoot functionality. The game plays much like you’d expect a FIFA game to with controls for player switching, short and long passing, shooting, and slide tackling. Though it’s probably best to use a gamepad for it, the kiosk had a keyboard hooked up.
After the FIFA Online 2 commercial launch in Japan there are plans to implement a pay-per-item system, though the representative was unwilling to discuss details of how the system will work. While there are no plans for this to show up in the United States, who knows, with the increasing momentum of the North American free-to-play movement, we might wind up seeing something like FIFA Online 3.
You can try the closed beta version on FIFA Online 2 website.