In the vast universe of adaptations of the FIFA franchise, Few are as unique as the version released for the Nokia N-Gage. This machine tried to merge the functionalities of a mobile phone with those of a portable console and received its own edition of the popular soccer simulator: FIFA Football 2004.
Developed by Exient Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts, FIFA Football 2004 reached the European market on December 24, 2003. The game was distributed in physical format by MMC cards, at an era where the arrival From the mobile video game, at the current scale and capabilities, it was still far away (The iPhone would not leave until June 2007).
Despite the limitations inherent in the N-Gage hardware, the version included outstanding features such as a race mode, “off the ball” control and a training mode. It was a fairly competent and well valued version in its day By the telephone-consola fans, despite the fact that the control could need some adaptation given the initial Nokia hybrid configurations (the buttons on the right side also served as the numbers to mark or write messages, so it was not a typical configuration).
-In many ways, both FIFA 2004 and FIFA 2005 in N-Gage opened a new door to how you could enjoy the FIFA experience in portable mode. They even allowed wireless multiplayer via Bluetootha revolution then.
These N-Gage versions suppose an intermediate step to what would be about to arrive with the irruption of PSP, where the different FIFA deliveries were a remarkable success thanks to the fact that they were an experience more similar to that of the consoles that you could carry in a pocket. Then the most capable mobiles, the touch screens and a focus of the mobile video game pointing in another direction would arrive. Although that is a story for another day.
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