Go Play: N-Gage FIFA 08 to include network multiplayer
That's what Nokia told us, anyway
One of the most high-profile games for Nokia's new N-Gage platform is FIFA 08, which is due to be one of the launch titles later this year.
And get this: it'll include proper multiplayer, enabling you to play footy over the network against other people with N-Gage capable handsets.
We interviewed Nokia's Jaakko Kaidesoja at today's Go Play event in London (the full piece will be published here tomorrow), and here's what he said when we asked him about the launch titles for N-Gage:
"We've got a good line-up of games, they look really great. It's no matter if they aren't particularly new. FIFA is a FIFA, but it's a multiplayer FIFA and looks much greater than any of the other…"
What, as in multiplayer over the network? "Yes," came the reply.
However, there are clearly mixed messages, given that the FIFA 08 page on the official N-Gage site still has it listed as a one-player game, and the Nokia representative on the FIFA stand at Go Play seemed to think the multiplayer feature was still in doubt.
Oh yes, the demo stand. FIFA 08 wasn't on show, strangely. Instead, there was a Symbian version of FIFA 07 converted to run on an N-Gage capable phone (the just-announced N81). It played okay, but didn't tell us much about the all-new N-Gage incarnation.
Stay tuned for more details on that, and check the N-Gage site for more screenshots in landscape format.
