{"id":19681,"date":"2025-08-08T09:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/its-not-just-football-with-blood-fear-fa-98-is-the-silent-hill-meets-fifa-98-mashup-we-never-knew-we-needed\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:37:14","slug":"its-not-just-football-with-blood-fear-fa-98-is-the-silent-hill-meets-fifa-98-mashup-we-never-knew-we-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/its-not-just-football-with-blood-fear-fa-98-is-the-silent-hill-meets-fifa-98-mashup-we-never-knew-we-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s not just football with blood\u2019: Fear FA 98 is the Silent Hill meets Fifa 98 mashup we never knew we needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A barmy merging of genres where you can play with balls made from decapitated heads \u2013 here\u2019s a release that could promote an indie developer to the premier league<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it\u2019s the weirdest combinations that go best together: bacon and ice-cream, pilchards and custard, erm \u2026 Alison Hammond and Dermot O\u2019Leary. But surely no one has thought of putting Silent Hill and Fifa 98 together before now.<\/p>\n<p>Billed as \u201cthe world\u2019s first online survival horror football game,\u201d Fear FA 98 (pronounced Fear-fa, like Fifa) has you pulling out knives, rusty scissors and syringes, summoning demons and using decapitated heads as the ball, in moves that make the likes of Diego \u201chandball\u201d Maradona and Luis \u201cbitey\u201d Su\u00e1rez look like angelic stalwarts of the Fifa fair play guide.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/aug\/08\/its-not-just-football-with-blood-fear-fa-98-is-the-silent-hill-meets-fifa-98-mashup-we-never-knew-we-needed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d2c17af569d92d3c17da80273d32a438d0d66ebd\/157_0_1350_1080\/master\/1350.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3b792618425a5bd4f86d43a61ebad646\" title=\"\u2018It\u2019s not just football with blood\u2019: Fear FA 98 is the Silent Hill meets Fifa 98 mashup we never knew we needed\" \/>A barmy merging of genres where you can play with balls made from decapitated heads \u2013 here\u2019s a release that could promote an indie developer to the premier league<br \/>\nSometimes it\u2019s the weirdest combinations that go best together: bacon and ice-cream, pilchards and custard, erm \u2026 Alison Hammond and Dermot O\u2019Leary. But surely no one has thought of putting Silent Hill and Fifa 98 together before now.<br \/>\nBilled as \u201cthe world\u2019s first online survival horror football game,\u201d Fear FA 98 (pronounced Fear-fa, like Fifa) has you pulling out knives, rusty scissors and syringes, summoning demons and using decapitated heads as the ball, in moves that make the likes of Diego \u201chandball\u201d Maradona and Luis \u201cbitey\u201d Su\u00e1rez look like angelic stalwarts of the Fifa fair play guide. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A barmy merging of genres where you can play with balls made from decapitated heads \u2013 here\u2019s a release that could promote an indie developer to the premier league Sometimes it\u2019s the weirdest combinations that go best together: bacon and ice-cream, pilchards and custard, erm \u2026 Alison Hammond and Dermot O\u2019Leary. But surely no one &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/its-not-just-football-with-blood-fear-fa-98-is-the-silent-hill-meets-fifa-98-mashup-we-never-knew-we-needed\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It\u2019s not just football with blood\u2019: Fear FA 98 is the Silent Hill meets Fifa 98 mashup we never knew we needed<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19681"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}