CyberSports has announced that its massively multiplayer online soccer game, Football Superstars, is about to enter the beta-testing phase.

Massively multiplayer doesn't mean there'll be hundreds of strikers crammed onto a giant pitch. Rather, it refers to the fact that the developer intends to implement a full online world, complete with cities to explore, material goods to purchase and non-player scout characters who will head-hunt successful footballers for the better teams.

You'll have a choice of three, five, seven and full eleven-a-side matches to play, and an intuitive control system is promised down on the pitch, with clever touches such as indicators that clearly show where all your team-mates are (goal hanging, probably).

Each footballer will be ranked on their own skill, so on-form players will still pick up credit even if the rest of the team is playing like Conference leaguers after a heavy night on the beer.

Football Superstars will kick off on the PC at some stage this summer.