Sifu and wonderful creators are creating a football game, which has been established decades from now on

Sifu and the absolute Sloclap developers have announced the Rematch, a 5V5 football game with a series of gentle science fiction novels, in the summer of 2025. Football? We had it at home. It’s like a martial arts, but all you can kick is a number … ball.

I am not sure I will completely swallow my frustration, but credit is due, the rematch looks like an interesting game and a quiet game being broken. It also created a chord for me because it was a new way in the culture of a sport that I had quite mixed emotions.

The first thing to know about the rematch is that it is the third person and you only control one character at the same time, including when you don’t have the ball. This separates the game simply with FIFAS and Pro Evos from your top down, in which you dance between the players’ bodies, giving control of who.

When you do not own the ball, you will move around the yard, locate yourself to receive a pass, mark the opponent and communicate with your friends with voice chat or message wheel – be a part of the football team. The cooperation for personal sophistication is a lot of the traits, with the co -founder of Sloclap Pierre Tarno commenting in a realistic presentation that “can be more satisfied when serving perfect support, rather than actually scoring points”. I will let you dare to be the transfer center as the judge of that claim.

It may not be a Kung Fu warrior, but the rematch looks like the work of those who know Kung Fu. Despite the choice of body types, the players are all majestic athletes, dancing around the ball and performing movements like bicycles will take me to the hospital. The game separates from the same vein of SIFU, with the model of glowing graphic novel characters from within, but has a reliable ratio and power.

Control – Because I can understand them from Tarno’s stage gestures on the webcam – very simple, with the same button used for different things in different contexts. However, there are a few more dedicated mechanisms for guardians who arrange automatic shots under certain conditions and goalkeepers, who can rush and dive for the ball but also, pushing into the role of the midfielder when necessary.

Sloclap is particularly proud of the game’s volleyball actions, also known as soccer before it lands, both about the way they increase the pace and the way they overcome feel more interesting and encourage you to “share the ball”, in Tarno’s phrase.

They also feel quite good about the game’s online function – no player I can see – this is based on everything they have learned with the absolute PVP orientation. Rematch will have specialized servers, along with support for private games and custom corridors, where players can organize tournaments and adjust rules. It was a direct service game, but in a less assumption, saying, Destiny’s habits on the rule of the war for our solar system. Rematch borrowed “vocabulary of real football season”, as Tarno continues, with new modes, environment and cosmetics in time.

You may wonder when we will dig into science fiction tools. Before we do, let me stare at my experience about football, what I despised, but also felt like I was completely misunderstood. Football, for me, in history is the Bullies game. When I was a child, I associated it with the children in my face because I did not have enough staff (instead I played Grass Hockey, that – as I would only tell everyone – which means I can walk around the school equipped with a large stick). As an adult, I associated it with adult men acting as children who just walked on the street. And at home: There is an unfortunate relationship between him losing and domestic violence. As the “national sport” of the United Kingdom, football has an inexplicable connection with Jingoism, and is a billion -table industry, it is prone to corruption and ethical cooperation relationships such as billions of pounds of the industry tend to be.

If you think I sound like a murder crook, sinful as being accused. While I think there are solid reasons for my vague, I have never really understood football. One thing I do not understand is how it suits his toxic class system. I am the “middle class”, because Alice Bee (RPS in peace) once summarized mercilessly, while the UK football has a strong working class culture, and looks back, I think some of my indifference when I was a simple young teenager. When I get older, I also appreciate the value of football as a community source, saying that football is relatively easy to grasp and play. Specifically, recently I have thought about how useful it can be to those who are isolated, including people with disabilities may need one hand with their physical strength.

With everything in my mind, what really caused me about the rematch is that it participates directly in the beautiful game as a social force, a way to bring people together and organize their world. It is trying to “distill” the best entertainment and if the success of that project is still seen, this project is worth the discussion.

This is where science fiction tools appear: Rematch is located in the near future, a near future “more sustainable and fair”, in which regenerative technologies are everywhere. The stadiums are cartoon -shaped boxes, similar to the arches of the Rocket League, illuminating the match points with the handsome images of the Beyond: Windmills world, turning against the infected sky, blinking the coral reefs, silver city and sunset can not look out. At a more realistic level, the surrounding stadium format means the ball never turns off, which makes the games faster with a few more breaks.

All are very ‘HopePunk’, and at risk of complacent and superficial, a historical paradise, in which all the bad things have been eliminated politely. It also has no intention of complicated social comments: As Tarno said when I asked if the remake has any stance on the Biz Football Biz today, “we eliminate this – we do our own.”

However, optimism is not only a landscape: it feels at the level of the yard. There is no mistake in the rematch, and therefore there is no referee, implying that people have superior but meaningless types. There are mixed gender teams, good. And there are very few traces, currently, about football as an industry: there is no license in the real world and there is no star player trading for eye transfer prices, although Sloclap does not exclude the trade partnership on the path “suitable for the themes and value of this game”.

“It is not about how many fans you have, or money, similar things,” Tarno continued. “I think that in this near future, where values ​​have developed in a more positive and cooperative way, it is more about the team rather than star players. Everyone is important. And that switches to the game mechanism, because you always turn around on the pitch, for development situations, and so it is not like having a star’s striker, or anything.

“Even scoring, we don’t want to point out a player to score more,” he said. “Because scoring is really the result of all the group’s efforts behind you, and you are just the last step in a series of successful challenges.” The title of the game, Tarno noted, lacking the idea of ​​winning, because it shows that you have lost a match.

All this deserves to be a doll of skepticism, again. You may argue that you don’t need to dance a few decades ahead of Wakandan tomorrow to grasp the community function of a friendly year. The premise of the Holodeck Stadium is very easy, but it’s quite authoritarian, perhaps a little Dystopian: Does the player ever leave the box? Is the crowd more than the wallpaper? But even when the rematch proves shallow or even sinister, I think it deserves to be noticeable when thinking about football as a website to build the world, a portal for different future. I want to try and see if it will help me put some demons to rest. That said – Follow absolutely whenever you are ready, Sloclap.

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