{"id":23429,"date":"2026-06-08T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/goals-review-disruptor-football-game-attempts-to-smash-the-competition\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:37:15","slug":"goals-review-disruptor-football-game-attempts-to-smash-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/goals-review-disruptor-football-game-attempts-to-smash-the-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals review \u2013 disruptor football game attempts to smash the competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Released just before the World Cup kicks off, this upstart football game is positioning itself as a credible alternative to EA Sports FC<\/p>\n<p>This month something extremely unusual happened in the video game world: someone launched a new football game. It used to be that the market could support a vast array of contenders, from arcade kickabouts such as Super Sidekicks and Hat Trick Hero, to serious simulations named Actua Soccer or This Is Football, to eccentric oddities such as Namco\u2019s LiberoGrande which made you experience the whole match as a single onfield player.<\/p>\n<p>For the past decade plus, however, the scene has been dominated EA\u2019s Fifa series, now EA Sports FC. With the exception of Konami\u2019s Pro Evolution Soccer, now eFootball, there have been few competitors \u2013 and few plucky upstarts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2026\/jun\/08\/goals-review-disruptor-football-game-attempts-to-smash-the-competition\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/932ccd9db8173812ac002154b75ffc2becb539dc\/168_6_2535_2028\/master\/2535.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4c0a8d7e4ff90b3263236918aad59d43\" title=\"Goals review \u2013 disruptor football game attempts to smash the competition\" \/>Released just before the World Cup kicks off, this upstart football game is positioning itself as a credible alternative to EA Sports FC<br \/>\nThis month something extremely unusual happened in the video game world: someone launched a new football game. It used to be that the market could support a vast array of contenders, from arcade kickabouts such as Super Sidekicks and Hat Trick Hero, to serious simulations named Actua Soccer or This Is Football, to eccentric oddities such as Namco\u2019s LiberoGrande which made you experience the whole match as a single onfield player.<br \/>\nFor the past decade plus, however, the scene has been dominated EA\u2019s Fifa series, now EA Sports FC. With the exception of Konami\u2019s Pro Evolution Soccer, now eFootball, there have been few competitors \u2013 and few plucky upstarts. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released just before the World Cup kicks off, this upstart football game is positioning itself as a credible alternative to EA Sports FC This month something extremely unusual happened in the video game world: someone launched a new football game. It used to be that the market could support a vast array of contenders, from &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/goals-review-disruptor-football-game-attempts-to-smash-the-competition\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goals review \u2013 disruptor football game attempts to smash the competition<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23430,"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\/23429"}],"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=23429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}