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2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

EA SPORTS 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa will feature all the emotion and passion of the fiercest national rivalries battling on the world's biggest stage, with all 199 national teams that took part in…

88 27 April 2010

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa is a simulator developed by EA Canada, released 27 April 2010 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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What 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa is

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa is a simulator game developed by EA Canada and released in 2010. It was published by EA Sports. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The premise, in the publisher's words

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa is the official video game for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, published by EA Sports and available to play on iOS and all major seventh-generation platforms except the Nintendo DS. Announced in January 2010 during an interview with one of the producers of the game, it was released 27 April 2010 in North America. 199 of the 204 teams that took part in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification are included in the game.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the FIFA series

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa is the 128th of 225 entries we hold in the FIFA series. The next entry was Sensible Soccer Skills in 2010. Its critic score of 88 is 15 points above the series average of 73. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Players rate it 78, 10 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa launched on 27 April 2010, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction.

Cheats and codes

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When did 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa come out?
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa was released on 27 April 2010 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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