Producer Dean Bennett gives us the play-by-play on 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is just around the corner and EA Mobile's iPhone and iPod touch take on the football's biggest event is even closer.

Ahead of its April 30th release, we asked producer Dean Bennett a few key questions about what 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa brings to the pitch.

Having worked on everything from Medal of Honor to Pictionary, he joined the FIFA series beginning with FIFA 08, and he was part of the team that crafted last year's introductory iPhone instalment.

The most substantial improvement is to the controls and the AI. The game has been made much easier to play. It’s a soccer game for everyone. Besides that, there is the all additional work around the tournament adding the ten authentic stadia, over 100 teams, and so on.

It’s the FIFA World Cup! It’s the only way to play the official tournament with all the players and teams on mobile and iPhone. FIFA 10 is about league teams and championship winning seasons, this game is about gaining glory for your nation in the greatest football tournament on the planet!

The controls have been greatly simplified. FIFA 10 offered tremendous depth in what could be achieved but for the casual user the difficulty curve could be daunting. You had to invest time in it.

In our quest to make the game easier to play, we first looked at the passing. We have opted to present the user with two passing options, a short and a long pass. These are made by a tap of the 'pass' button or a hold of the 'pass' button respectively.

In addition to this, we made through balls and attacking passes context-sensitive. When a good opportunity to play one of these balls is present then a huge yellow arrow shows you where the ball can be played and tapping 'pass' at that point will make the pass.

Other changes were to how the receiver gets the ball. We have tightened up his control at reception so the user doesn't move out of the ball's trajectory before he gets it.

We have adjusted the level of AI fouling in the game. This means you are less likely to get a red card for a tough slide tackle although we also tried to ensure that the opposing team does get called for fouls themselves.

We moved skill moves onto a separate button that only appears after you have had the ball for a short amount of time. Again, it’s about making something easier and more obvious.

Lastly, with the controls we did something that might seem insubstantial but in fact it has made a big impact in how accessible the game is.

We put the word for the moves on the buttons and made them context sensitive. So for example, the 'pass' button says 'Pass', and the shoot - well, can you guess?

These change when on defence to 'Tackle' and 'Slide.' So there is never any confusion about which button does what in any situation.

We said, "Hey you know what? Getting a red card is not fun. If it is not fun let’s try and make it not happen so much." However, if you ramp up the difficulty to one of the higher settings expect that loosening of the rules to be revoked and the referees to reach for a card more often.

Yes, we offer all three types of game, Friendly, Captain Your Country and Penalty Shootout by Bluetooth or local wi-fi.

That’s easy - I’ve enjoyed some other football games but nothing offers the depth, longevity and authenticity of FIFA. If you want to replicate the drama of the World cup, maybe re-write history, you can only do that with 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa!

Well being a Brit, I’d love to say England but the truth is we will probably go out via penalties at the quarter finals. Most likely to Germany!

My top picks are Spain, an awesome passing side who might just be at the peak of their prowess this summer and also The Netherlands. They have some top players like Van Bommel and Huntelaar although the fitness of Robin van Persie is going to be crucial for them.

An outside chance is the Ivory Coast who have perhaps one of the World’s best strikers in Didier Drogba and now have Sven Goran Eriksson as their manager. I think the USA will do well too, but hopefully not too well as they are in the same group as England! That’s going to be a great match!