What's Football Stars Online?
Football Stars Online© is a Pervasive massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) in which you are a football player at the beginning of its career. You must stand out in the competitive football world, using your skills to succeeed both in your career and in your social life. You'll be tried out with spicy startlets, tricky journalists, manic fans and many more well-known characters of the football world. Only if you'll ride thousand tests out guided by your master and supported by your team-mates you'll become a real Football Star.
A full of irony and comic-style 2.5D graphics game that you could play for free on PC, Palmtop, Smartphone or a Mobile Phone geared with both Java and a broadband internet connection. Moveover, you'll have the chance to power-up and customize your champion by premium services and virtual items like so many other MMORPGs.
How is it Pervasive?
First of all, the virtual world of Football Stars Online© is ubiquitous, which means you can access it by any internet connected device any-time and any-where. Are you playing but you must go to the post office to pay a bill? Instead of closing your game session you can switch it on your mobile phone and enjoy the game again while queueing at the post office! But the world is realistic too. Dream of getting engaged with a starlet or called for a sign up by a famous coach? Virtual characters establish relationships just like human beings. They talk to you, they chase after you, they send you emails, even though you keep the game control.
Moreover, there are social networking tools like Calciomercato, by which you can look for a sign up, and location-based tools to seek your team-mates or the last match opponents and meet in the real world for a beer and a friendly chat about football.
On Which Devices
Can I Play It?
Football Stars Online© is a new-concept cross-platform game, since it is playable both on PC and a mobile phone or a palmtop. No other MMORPG offer you more, no one can give you the same richful interactive gaming experience. They cannot give you avatars you can move, places and items to interact with, and online football matches to play in real-time like Football Stars Online does!
Football Stars Online© give you all those features by a client you could install on any device you like: a PC or a Notebook (with Windows®, Linux® or Mac® OS and ADSL or faster internet connection), a Palmtop, a Smartphone or a Mobile Phone (with Symbian®, Android® or Blackberry® OS, geared with Java® MIDP-2.0 CLDC-1.1, 176x208 or more graphics resolution and UMTS or faster internet connection).
Which is the Game Setting?
In Football Stars Online© you'll be shoot inside the professional football world. Seeking success you'll wander in Calciopoli, a modern metropolis in which social life is driven by football events and gossip about the champions. You'll not encounter monsters, but something more dangerous: sport agents, journalists and coaches hungry of your talent; starlets and beauty queens seeking the good life; manic fans ready to be treaded on for your jersey or to break you in meatballs as you'll play a bad football match. You'll enjoy love affairs adventures, you'll climb jet-set peaks, you'll explore the doping dungeons.
Are you ready to face all that? Will you be a brainless football player not enough skilled to play? Or rather will you succeed in showing that you are a Champion on the pitch and in social life?
Who Can I Be?
In Football Stars Online© you'll be a promising new football talent. Alike other MMORPGs, your avatar will be defined by a set of physical, psychological and social features, which could be enhanced by gathering experience and teamed up with special skills to mould your personal game and social interaction style. You must commit yourself to become a champion, by winning football matches and championships together with your team-mates, till one day you will get to the National Team. Social parties, legal scandals, tricky interviews will be tests you will have to face as a real Champion while getting to the popularity peaks.
Later on, we'll give you the chance to be also someone else, like a coach, a fan, a starlet or a sport journalist, characters which at the moment are AI-controlled.
How Many Kind of Gameplay?
Since Football Stars Online© is an RPG, you'll gain experience by facing quests assigned by an old football champion, that will teach you secrets of this world. Besides the mainstream quests, linked to events of public people of Calciopoli, you could try side quests catched by free hanging around in metropolis. Moreover, you have both the chance to interact with certain items to activate minigames to train your brain and your reflexes, and the social networking and gossip systems to increase your reputation and speed up your path to glory.
Since there aren't football guilds but sport clubs, you'll be taken up by Team vs. Team (TvT) gameplay, with test and championship matches together with your team-mates. Further, will be activated a more strategical Club vs. Club (CvC) gameplay too.
What Are Premium
Services and Items?
Football Stars Online© is a free-to-play MMORPG, that is, you can play it for free as long as you like. You'll have a basic set of game features which will allow you to enjoy more than ever. Moreover, there is a chance to buy online several premium services and virtual items to overdraw your game experience or help you to overcome some difficult obstacles on the path to glory.
Some more, Calciopoli has its own economy based on a virtual currency called Verdoni, which can be spent as you like, such as, for example, for dinning with a starlet in a luxury restaurant to make her fall in love with you, or rather to save yourself from a legal inquiry on football doping. You could spend Verdoni to buy special short or long-term power-ups for your avatar too.
