Good stuff, Grasshopper, let us move on. No qualifying, no club teams, no nothing that occurred outside Japan and Korea earlier this year. The game features16 leagues, teams and 10, different players. In addition there are over 40 'Superstar' players with their own signature moves.
As usual for a FIFA title, if you complete various tournaments, you get to unlock special bonus features that will remain nameless here. You can also visit the hall of kits, or find out who was your teams top scorer last season etc.
The CD also comes with a bunch of cool music tracks that make for a pleasant listening diversion. Lots of cosmetics that make for a nice fluffy package. The first thing you will notice is that EA have redesigned the interface.
The predominantly white interface of the last few years has made way for a new slicker gray and orange combo that adds nothing to the gameplay, but it sho' looks purdy. McCoist has replaced Scot Andy Gray in the virtual hot seat this year, and does a bang up job. As expected, the pair combine well, praising or damning the players on the pitch depending on the performance. Motty gives the play-by-play coverage, while Ally chips in with interesting and accurate tidbits that give you a little info about the team or the player.
Indeed, this version of the game seems to carry far more player specific comments than ever before, and hearing that El-Hadji Diouf is the reigning African player of the year after he has just scored for Liverpool really adds to the feeling of watching a live match.
Crowd chants are no longer just the boos, jeers or cheers of the previous versions. If you are hammering or being hammered! It is a sound that can be inspiring or humiliating, depending on which end of the score sheet your team is occupying! Additionally, EA have added team specific crowd chants this year, and hearing 'You'll never walk alone' roar round the virtual Anfield really got the hairs on the back of my neck tingling.
Play with or against a French or Spanish team and you get the supporters chants for those teams. In fact there are at least 16 different teams with their own chants, a really neat touch that true footy fans will really appreciate. This neatly leads me onto another cool new feature that get the pulse of every knowledgeable football fan racing, the virtual stadiums.
For the first time, 16 major club stadia have been accurately recreated in the game. This may sound like nothing more than a piece of eye candy, but it can actually have an effect on gameplay. Each of the venues are unique with attributes that can work to your advantage or disadvantage depending on your team.
Highbury for example, is a smaller ground that is ideally suited to quick short passing movements, while the cavernous Camp Nou in Barcelona is a huge wide open stadium that is allows the teams to play longer passes into its wide open spaces. The player control system works really well, although long passes are still something of a lottery; despite the pressing of the correct keys at the appropriate time, my players seem to decide by themselves if they want to contest the ball or not.
The short passing game however is great, once you have mastered this facet, there is nothing more enjoyable than watching the opposition chase shadows as you ping the ball around, playing 'give-and-go', waiting for the right pass to open up before delivering the killer ball that leads to the sweetest of goals.
The player graphics are as good as ever, with the players moving, passing and looking like real football players, although some player's virtual counterparts look so ugly in this game they may want to consider a defamation lawsuit. Another new addition is the choice of playing the game in 'Action' or 'Simulation' settings, unfortunately neither mode seemed that different and as the manual did not explain the difference, it seems like a waste of an option. So far everything in the garden sounds rosy First up is the lack of full tactical control.
There is still no true tactical control of the teams. I want to be able to give my players more instruction than the basic 'Select formation, select lineups etc' I want to create my own formations, I want to be able to tell certain players to push forward, some to hold back and if I want my 'keeper to come up for a corner kick at the end of the game then let me do it dammit!!!!
When I see the amount of plays that get put into games like Madden, it really pisses me off to see EA so disrespectful to fans of a sport that is played by vastly more people. Football is a game that can be as simple as you like or as complex as you like -- I want to be able to make that choice! It also seems that the infamous 'wrong player - wrong position' bug from FIFA has reared its unwelcome head again.
There is nothing more disconcerting than starting a game and finding out that your Left Back slot is filled by a striker who cant tackle to save his life! This is stupid and can only lead me to imagine that the dev and research teams did not actually talk much -- or worse, they did not know much about football. The only major blemish is the lack of blemishes on Martin Keown's face, the Arsenal stopper appearing here as an airbrushed movie star rather than the pitted k child-scarer who turns out I at Highbury.
A Having players in a computer game that look like their real-life counterparts is undoubtedly big and clever, f but the same if not better effect can be found by switching on your TV of a Tuesday evening. It's what you do with them that counts, and it is in this area that FIFA games have traditionally been a letdown. The usual criticism is that it's all too easy to score, with matches often resembling basketball rather than the low-scoring sport we know and love.
Much of this may be due to the fact that the game is developed in North America, where scoreless games and draws are totally anathema to sports fans. This year though, the executive producer of the game has attempted to drum into the developers that 1 - 0 is a good scoreline. Midfield tussles are commonplace, and it is definitely harder to score, with simply pressing shoot from the edge of the area no guarantee of a goal. If proof were needed, the first game I played was a hard-fought goalless draw, and it wasn't until the third match that I actually managed to open my account.
Goals have to be worked at, and involve intricate passing and a degree of thought. Manually instigated player runs are still in place, as are through balls, and though they often go astray, when it comes off it's a beautiful thing, and does actually resemble football. The sprint button no longer needs to be constantly pumped, offering more control, and it is possible to play some attractive stuff. Set pieces have also been revamped, using a pseudo golf game interface last seen in the much berated Viva Football.
Player characteristics are more pronounced, so, for instance, Ryan Giggs is capable of mazy dribbles, Beckham can whip a ball in and Roy Keane is a nasty bastard. These features are traditionally associated with Pro Evolution Soccer, and if we were suspicious we could feasibly suggest someone at EA has had a long hard look at that game.
Even the half-time and full-time highlights are uncannily similar. Either way, while they have by no means matched it, they have created a very playable game. It looks great, the commentary - by John Motson and cheeky adulterer Ally McCoist - is so good you don't notice it, and the presentation is as glossy as it gets.
So hopefully next year's version will build on the progress of this one and will be even more worthy of your cash. Browse games Game Portals.
FIFA Football Install Game. Click the "Install Game" button to initiate the file download and get compact download launcher. Locate the executable file in your local folder and begin the launcher to install your desired game.
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