Football Superstars is a brand new, genre breaking Sports Massively Multi-player Online Game (MMOG) due to be launched in 2008. Based on the massively popular sport of football, Football Superstars takes the player through the life of a footballer, from grass-root kick-abouts to the pinnacle of the premier football and international stardom.

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MMOSITE.com: Hello, I m Seal Danpier from MMOSITE, nice to have a chat with you. At first, can you give our readers a general overview of Football Superstars? What kind of an online world will it bring to us?

Steve: Hello Seal, my name is Steve Marshall, Creative Director for CyberSports, thanks for giving me the opportunity to talk to yourself and everyone else at MMOsite.com about Football Superstars.
Football Superstars is an MMO sports game orientated around the world (unsurprisingly enough) of Football. As a player you will control the development of an individual footballer s career from initial kickabout games in the park to high profile international tournament competitions.
The world you are placed in as a player is an aspirational one, the towns and ultimately cities allow individuals to enjoy the trappings of being a high profile player, with exclusive shops in order to customize your character, nightclubs and bars where you can enjoy a social drink with friends talking strategy and sharing stories of recent success with media reps. Initially the world will be relatively small (compared to our plans for expansion) but there will plenty to do. The stadiums and surrounding buildings are all beautiful things to behold, as a non fantasy genre we have kept an element of realism to our style, but have enjoyed the artistic license to build wonderfully impressive stadium grounds in a utopian styled world.

MMOSITE.com: Each member of both teams will be controlled by a real-world player, except the goalkeepers which will be AI controlled, which really requires high regarding the internet connection. What will do to ensure a smooth game play for players?

Steve: We have built the football engine with internet latency in mind, as such we have developed buffers in the game that compensate for occasional "blips" with connections. Although our roll-out strategy is still in discussion we will ensure that our server nodes will be in key places for our player base. We are also discussing infrastructure technologies that are normally reserved for global enterprise organizations. With the recent surge in broadband connectivity options, the kind of connectivity issues people experienced with modem connections of the past will be limited.
We have also built in systems for substituting players that are unfortunately disconnected from the servers, so teams will not suffer a disadvantage for long (if at all) due to poor connections or minor emergencies such as pizza delivery or power cuts...

MMOSITE.com: Please say something about this game  s player advancement system, what about the degree in boosting up our character s ability, how can we obtain bonus points, and what benefits can we receive after we improve the character  s level or rank?

Steve: We have a number of ways we reward players, From traditional leveling that allows you to advance your physical and footballing abilities to learning special tricks and advancing your celebrity status, even gaining special apparel for performing interviews with the media. Players will also enjoy being paid for playing for their selected clubs and will be able to develop their characters look from simple T-shirts to full length leather coats, each of which will follow our high quality production standards.
By just playing football players advance their skills regardless of the match being a divisional or casual one, so everyone stands to benefit from playing regardless of the type of game.
Advancing your football ability will unlock additional training opportunities and allow you to participate in higher profile games and therefore receive even greater rewards, increasing your celebrity status will unlock exclusive social areas where you can enjoy your fame with others and get opportunity to discover even greater skill trainers.