France '98

To celebrate Thierry Henry's magnificent use of his hands to land France a spot in the 2010 World Cup (and make UEFA, FIFA and all sorts of other acronyms very happy) we have a wallpaper from the earliest FIFA titles (the earliest?).

At the time these graphics were fucking killer, the gameplay was amazing and it actually had announcers. This was unprecedented, I remember being amazed at how they could achieve such thing. Not only that but the introduction? it gave you some Chumbawamba.

This was more than 10 years ago, the level of complexity that goes into today's FIFA, from rosters, teams, uniforms, online play, ball physics, stadiums, chants, is unbelievable and cannot even begin to be compared to what was going on then. The question then is what is a soccer game going to look like 10 years from now?