Here's a little example of what happens when Fivemagics combines the ball physics and the script for animation and the ball and footballer collisions...

How cool is that!

Here's a video captured by Fivemagics showing the footballer v footballer and footballer v environment collisions. He's a man of few words, and I'll probably get some stick for quoting him, but here's a rare opportunity to hear his own words about it:

'smooth action, while keeping totally robust non-penetration and footballer blocking (for tactical purposes) and still allowing for dramatic and funky tackles while keeping totally robust non-penetration with random world geometry'

We weren't sure whether to release this clip, but we thought why not. It is not polished in any way and only made to show the collisions in action - its not a gameplay movie! You'll see footballers NOT going through objects when running or sliding etc. and not getting stuck on objects either. Sounds simple but it is anything but.. =)

At the very end you can catch a glimpse of the early work on the keeper movement using a very clever custom script.. more to come later on this.