Virtual Sports World

Just like real Football, you can place bets on Virtual Football at Unibet.

The range of bets that you can place are only slightly more limited than normal, but are comprehensive enough to allow for most wagers. In fact the only bets that I could see that were missing were the Goalscorer markets – pretty much everything is covered off. If you’re unsure what he bets mean there is an info box available to explain what each type of wager means.

the football section differs from the other Virtual Sports offered because it divides Football into three different areas.

These are:

World Cup – bet on a virtual World Cup tournament

Champions Cup – bet on a Virtual Champions League

Football – the main area which focusses on the English Premier League.

It would appear that the game provider hasnt managed to secure all the rights to some teams or players yet. This means that Manchester United are shown as Manchester Reds and Arsenal are London Guns. Players are not immune either – Raheem Sterling is now Sturling, James Milner is now Mulner, and Real Madrids Toni Croos is now brilliantly renamed as Toni Cross.

Types of bets

The bet types are all displayed under the main action screen. Because of the wide range of bets available, the first area of bet types is based around the team win odds for each of the games being played on the match day. You can select as many as you like to build up accumulators if you want to, or simply choose a single selection. Clicking on the highlighted odds open up a betting slip. From there just select your odds and then submit them.

To the right of each match is a number (usually over 30). Clicking on this will open up further markets for that particular game.

There is quite a range of options here – from outright wins and correct score markets all the way through to  Asian Handicaps. With around 35 markets for each game you’ll struggle to find a market that doesn’t exist.

Gameplay

The game screen itself is clear and comprehensive and actually fun to watch. From the kick off through to the final whistle, every detail has been thought of. The referees shake hands with the captains before kick off, the linesman waves his flag as enthusiastically as ever, and there are multiple camera angles of the match.

Replays for talking points like free kicks or cards are shown from two or three different angles. The software even makes use of teams away strips and even the weather – if you want to know whether a Virtual Football team can do it on a wet night in Stoke now you can find out (clue: they virtually can). There’s been a lot of work to make the matches feel as realistic as possible.

Although the matches are played over a usual 90 minute duration, you dont actually watch the whole match. Instead the games are like highlight reels running at about 5 minutes per half.

At halftime more updated odds appear on the main screen as well as match stats  are displayed. And if those stats aren’t enough, you can click on the stats icon to the right of the main playing area. This will open up a new browser window where you can see even more information including things like the last five head to head meetings between the clubs, match form, match possession and many more.