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SCREENSHOTS: 'Gaelic Games: Football'

Above, the Armagh and Dublin teams, below Croke Park with Mayo and Kerry, and emtpy. Click on the images for a larger view of the screenshots.

According to a press release issued today, the Australian games developer IR Gurus had 20 ‘designated’ staff working on ‘Gaelic Games: Football', it took over two years to develop, Croke Park and Fitzgerald Stadium took an in excess of 200 hours to digitalize, and each county jersey was close to 30 hours work.

The game is set for release in Ireland on November 11. A TV advertisement for the game is still available on this GAA club’s site, or directly by clicking here. [UPDATE: this link stopped working after this article was published]

Gaelic football players based in Australia were used for motion capture, “The solo was one of the most difficult moves to re-create as it can happen at such high speeds. The motion capture shoot only took a day but it takes months to actually get the animations ready for use in the game”, stated the release.

Mike Fegan, CEO of IR Gurus commented “From the beginning we wanted to emulate the excitement of Gaelic Football. We started at the very beginning, photographing Gaelic Football stadiums in Ireland, attending a multitude of games and then surrounding ourselves with football fans to help us capture the spirit of the game. The development of Gaelic Games: Football was a great experience for our whole team.”

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An in-game action still of from a TV advertisement for Gaelic Games: Football.

- Advert video back online, still no screen shots

The Gaelic Players Association, who have 1,400 members, have called the GAA-backed ‘Gaelic Football 2005’ PlayStation 2 game “disrespectful” and “deceitful”, because of the way the makers have not included the images of GPA members.