Our technical director, Charles Chapman, took some time out from working on X2 Football 2011 to speak to the nice chaps at Ready UP.

"Like the sport itself, football games are big business. They reside happily across platforms, take on many forms, and hungrily tap into a ravenous market.

A decade ago, if you wanted to envelope yourself in meticulous true-to-life accuracy and realism, then the Championship Manager series was the best (and often the only) option. These days however, the primary consoles have the processing speed and memory capabilities to power a complex back-end for the high-res action they lovingly splash onto our HDTVs. They can not only make their representation of Wayne Rooney look like him, but they can make it feel like him too. Try not to think about the mental image of feeling Wayne Rooney too much."

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