FIFA 10 introduces 360-degree dribbling that revolutionises ball control. A major advance in gameplay fluidity, ball sensations incomparable for the time. A decisive turning point in the series evolution.
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Sports4 players3+
Description
EA Sports football simulation recreating the 2009-2010 season with realistic gameplay and Virtual Pro mode to embody your own player. Published by EA, released in Europe in October 2009. Virtual Pro mode with career progression, improved Manager mode, refined 360 dribbling, 20-player online multiplayer, and seasonal friendly matches.
FIFA 10 review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
1/5
Story
★★★★★
"Anecdotal"
Gameplay
"Solid"
Fun
"From the very first minutes"
Addictiveness
"Captivating"
Difficulty
"Easy"
Lifespan
"Massive"
The Virtual Pro mode, where you embody your own player from youth ranks to the top, turns a season into a long-term project you can't put down. Alongside it, the manager career, transfers and weekly online challenges multiply the reasons to fire it up again. This density of modes, far more than a single campaign, is why people kept coming back for months.
FIFA 10, yet another vintage of EA's football, praised at launch but made obsolete by the next entry a year later. Mass-produced, it stays unremarkable and without value, its sporting content no longer current. Its collector interest is negligible, the annual format dooming such a title to be a mere series milestone with no scarcity or demand of its own.
Better with friends
Accessible, spectacular soccer cut out for four-player evenings where you form mixed teams for matches as tense as they are convivial. The competition is savored in one-twos, long-range strikes and cheeky celebrations after a last-minute goal. Easy to fire up for a quick match, it turns every game into a pride duel and a generator of friendly rivalries.
Is FIFA 10 still worth playing in 2026?
FIFA 10 remains a milestone of the series, for it introduces 360-degree dribbling that truly revolutionised ball control. This freedom of movement, unheard-of at the time, offered incomparable feel on the ball and marked a decisive turning point in the evolution of virtual football. Today its successors have refined this base and the title has logically aged, its online servers having also closed. But it keeps a real historical interest, and the pleasure of a local match endures. For anyone wanting to understand a major advance of the genre, it stays eloquent.
