The buzz has been growing and growing, and just in time for the World Cup of Soccer, Playfish and FIFA have launched their new FIFA Superstars game on Facebook, and it’s good. The game is a soccer management game, and doesn’t have any live gameplay yet, but the simulation mode looks fantastic and the game uses the FIFA license to include every real soccer player and team you can imagine. If you enjoy soccer, you’ve got to give this one a shot.

The game revolves around choosing players for your team, developing a strategy and then engaging other teams in ‘league matches’ or in tournaments. The game starts by asking you to conquer the Junior C league by playing a series of matches against other teams. The main strategic element a player will encounter is ensuring that their strategies and roster are set up to properly defeat the other team’s strategies.

Once you launch into a game, you see a play by play of the key plays of the game. These plays are acted out in full quality graphics and look fantastic. There aren’t too many animations yet, but as with all social games we can expect that to grow as the game succeeds.

Once you win a game, you gain experience and gold, which you can use to buy ‘transfers’ that give you a set of great players. The feel of buying a transfer is that of buying a pack of cards: you’re not sure what you’re going to get but you know that if you buy the ‘silver’ set rather than the bronze, you’ll get better players. You can also use gold to buy coaches and upgrade your stadium.

Per the match consideration, a player only can play a certain amount of matches per day. If you want to accelerate faster, you need to buy Playfish Cash to get more matches.

There’s more to the game, and we’ll have a full review soon, but for now, give the game a shot!