The World Cup 2010 is well underway, passing the halfway mark for number of matches played since yesterday. Well, what better time than now to capitalize on footie fever than releasing a closed beta testing for Online Soccer Champions, especially if you are Big Collision Games? This is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, which means you are able to play with a theoretical 6 billion other people worldwide as long as they are connected to the Internet. Big Collision Games does realize that soccer fans do need their fix when there are no matches to play for at the moment.

Online Soccer Champions is a fast-action, immersive MMOG. Gamers play 11-on-11 matches, pitted against a similarly skilled team – with every player on both teams controlled by a real gamer. Players grow their characters and progress through the game based on performance on the field and the choices they make along the way. In addition, the community offers social aspects, customization of each character, and highlights the importance of teamwork both on and off the field.

It would be interesting to see how this game pans out in the eyes of those who grew up playing Championship Manager and even more recently, the entire FIFA series that started to see more and more management skills thrown into the fray. Not only that, this title seems to concentrate more on the gaming aspect in terms of soccer on the field, and not off it, so it wouldn’t really require much managerial acumen to nail this down.

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