Written Analysis - Fifa 13

Fifa 13 is a video game which can be played on several different consoles such as Playstation or Xbox. I think that it is Post Modern for the following reasons. Firstly the whole concept of the game is hyper real as it reflects the reality of a real football match into a simulated/unreal world, where the consumer or audience acts as a real football player, controlling their every move. It also holds a hyper real feel where in each game the minutes are like seconds and the game doesn't last as long as a real football match,  as if time is moving faster.
To a certain extent, an intertextual reference maybe classed as a television programme as all of the top league matches are broadcasted on the well-known channels such as BBC and ITV, which ties in to the idea of voyeurism, whilst watching a match on TV you are looking through a screen, as well as whilst playing the game, you are playing through a screen.
Nostalgia is a huge part of the Fifa game, as every year an updated version comes out, however the concept of the game is constantly recycled from the year before however made better. If one were to have played it 10 years ago, they would recognise similar features in the newer versions. Also, it could be argued that hybridisation has occurred in this video game, as the real sport - football has been merged with an animated world, forming a realistic game consisting of real life football players, where any consumer may enter this world which is entirely simulated however holds that factor of realism.
I also think that it is post modern due to the fact that any real life footballer may play this game, but literally, as they are controlling themselves but as a character, as if they are actually inside the simulated game. This is unnatural as it is as if they are moving through worlds from their physical self into themselves in a animated world. This breaks down the barrier between the consumer and the real life football players, as they are one when they play the game.