Trophy: Coppa Nazionale
Continuing with the whole mobile theme, here. One of the main reasons I boguth my phone was because it's a Nokia N-Series phone, which means it makes use of Nokia's new N-Gage service. As you probably know, there used to actually be an N-Gage phone which ended up being a failure because... well, it was rubbish. Going back to the drawing board, Nokia has decided to make N-Gage a service instead of a platform, meaning some phones can download fancy 3D games through an N-Gage program and save their progress to a profile which is a bit of an Xbox Live rip-off. Anyway, for registering to N-Gage I got the mobile version FIFA 08 for free, so naturally I decided it should be the next game on my quest.
There are nine leagues in the game: English, Italian, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Portugese, Korean and American. Naturally, I'm sure you could understand my rage at the lack of the Scottish Premier League and therefore the lack of Celtic. There is a Rest Of The World option when doing friendlies and custom tournaments, but they're not in there either. I don't mean to moan but surely Celtic and Rangers are more popular than Arka Gdynia, Mamelodi Sundowns FC or the one-star rated AC Lugano?
Either way, I decided to go for the Coppa Nazionale, the Italian club cup, and since my brother just got a Juventus shirt recently I decided to play as them.
For a mobile game, FIFA 08 is actually pretty good. The graphics are of PSOne standard and while the controls take getting used to, you do eventually get the hang of it. As an N-Gage game it also has "Player Points", which is basically a complete copy of the Xbox 360's Achievement system. Each game has 1000 points allocated to it and you get points for certain challenges: win a trophy, score a hat-trick etc.
Anyway, here's a goal I scored in the final, conveniently from kick-off.
And, as ever, here's the celebration pic (which is slightly disappointing and accompanied by the game's one song, "Goodbye Mr A" by the Hoosiers):
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