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Clothes Off For The Lads!

Could Flitzer be the only football game you need this year?

Clothes Off For The Lads!
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Chances are, that at some point during the World Cup this summer, an inebriated fan will leg it across the pitch buck-naked, before being rugby-tackled and led away by security.

You call it madness. We call it tradition.

And German mobile games publisher HandyGames certainly approves too, at least judging by its latest game. Called Flitzer – ‘streaker’ in German – it has you scampering across the pitch avoiding security guards while performing testicle-endangering stunts and combos to rack up points.

Stunts include “the famous egg dance”, which sounds frankly obscene, while the crowd toss power-ups onto the pitch that can make you invisible, run faster, or stumble. There’s even a tournament mode.

This summer will see the release of around a billion-jillion mobile footy games, but Flitzer is undoubtedly the most original we’ve encountered so far. You even get to create your own ‘sexy’ body – HandyGames’ words, not ours – so you can avoid the usual results of all those half-time pies.

Flitzer will be waggling its bits on a phone near you in mid-March.

Stuart Dredge
Stuart Dredge
Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)