However, you will eventually master this and want a greater challenge, which is when you'll switch to the hardest level and have the experience that Barak describes. Your players will be unable to hold the ball for more than a fraction of a second, and you will be passing the ball around madly, unable to use many of the skill moves because those actually involve dribbling. I'm sure that with sufficient practice you can put on quite a show at World Class level, but the point is that no matter how good you get, the game will simply make you look like that guy in the Who song [Elton John?
Now that's frightening In the end, while the gameplay at the highest level is very challenging, and while the Professional level does allow for some passing and space, the fact is that it simply isn't soccer.
You'll never chip the keeper from thirty yards, all your goals will be scored inside the box, and your defenders will never step up to deliver a telling header off a corner. You won't have your centre-forward take the ball with his back to the goal, move away from the box, and turn to deliver a perfect pass releasing his overlapping right midfielder.
This is where the new animations are so nice. Despite all the too-perfect passes and back-and-forth running, the body movements now remind you that this is still the "beautiful game. I've held off on this for as long as possible, but it's time to address the game's treatment of MLS, which seems to have been deemed important enough to have warranted a license and its name on the front of the box.
This treatment is, in a word, shameful. Ok, two words: shameful and embarrassing. First of all, there are 15 leagues represented in the game. Fourteen of them can be played in season mode. One cannot. Can you guess which one? Of course. This comment is not intended as a slight to those leagues, but simply an illustration of the fact that while American gamers can play full seasons using leagues which they most likely know very little about and probably aren't that interested in, they can't use season mode to play their home nation's league.
Although Turkish fans have something to gripe about as well: EA have incredibly omitted Galatasaray. Actually, when I say that you can't play MLS in season mode, I should amend that to say that you can if you use the "custom league" option and manually select all the MLS clubs to participate. The problem with this is that MLS has a distinctively American flavor where everything comes down to the playoffs, rather than ending in a regular-season winner.
This, in turn, depends on the very American system of conferences, where teams are separated geographically, with most play being between members of the same conference.
Sadly, if you use the custom league option, you have no choice but to amalgamate all the teams into a single, European-style division. How generic. Don't even think about having the clock count down, the lack of injury time, or the infamous "shootout. Rumor actually has it that MLS will eliminate the shootout next year thank God , but the whole thing really makes a mockery of EA 's famous slogan: "If it's in the game, it's in the game.
The second problem is with the club rosters. Many of them are just plain wrong. For example, when I went to set the lineup for my own Chicago Fire, I was puzzled by the defensive alignment: C. Brown, Francis Okaroh, and He wasn't there. Not even as a sub. Simply missing. Sure, Zenga was released by the club in September as the team's playoff hopes faded, but this doesn't explain why so many other players who had left their clubs long before Zenga did are still there.
In fact, if you want to play your favorite MLS club, the odds are you'll have to do some heavy editing before you're able to field any kind of realistic side. The game does have an editor which gives you the ability to edit player names, positions, and appearances, so those with more patience than I can eventually set things right. I'll be looking for custom files on download sites, thank you. Another inexplicable decision has to do with match commentary. Now, I readily admit that when it comes to soccer announcers, there are really no good American ones, just like there doesn't seem to be any good MLS referees.
However, the choice of Phil Schoen is almost an insult to those of us who have ears. While not quite as bad as Ty Keough, Schoen is typical of the American style of commentary where players' personalities or lives are discussed more than the game itself. I think this has to do with the nature of football and baseball, where five seconds of action are followed by five minutes of doing nothing and announcers have to fill the space with stuff no one cares about anyway.
During a soccer match, of course, this isn't necessary. Nevertheless, I have heard American announcers feel the need to finish their sentences about a player's exploits as a windsurfer or something while he was scoring a goal. This doesn't happen in FIFA , but associations are not easily broken, and I have a feeling many American soccer viewers will cringe at the sound of a voice they would prefer not to have to hear while playing a computer game.
Foudy is better, but the whole thing sounds rather incongruous. I wonder if the inclusion of Foudy was some sort of attempt to carry the overmarketing of the Women's World Cup as far as possible, since her commentary is advertised on the box with a picture and only a single mention of Phil Schoen, even though Schoen does the majority of the speaking.
Furthermore, a lot of the phrases seem to be identical to the ones in FIFA 99 , except that now they're spoken by Schoen and Foudy instead of Lawrenson, Gray, and Waddle. This is almost acceptable for MLS matches. After all, I hear it on television, so I'm used to it. But to have a Newcastle-Sunderland derby narrated by these two?
Simply surreal. It would be like having Des Lynam announce the Super Bowl. Not much creativity on the part of EA there, and more evidence that the MLS part of the game was hastily thrown together.
Lastly, there are the stadiums. There isn't even a pretense of modeling these, and games are played instead in stadiums which have no relation to the fields they are representing. What's funny about this is that since all the clubs play in American football stadiums except for the Columbus Crew, EA has modeled all these venues in the Madden series.
Options are also highly configurable in this game. Weather, fouls, formations, graphical details and many other general and team-specific items can be altered, giving the game quite a bit of depth.
You will have lots to do before actually playing a match. International recording star Robbie Williams has also been cyber-scanned into the game so that you can see him when he sings in the introduction to the game. The graphics in the game are very well done. Players are beautifully animated and the stadiums also possess enough atmosphere and movement to get you going.
The one drawback of the visuals is that they do seem a bit cartoon-like but, even so, they still look very smooth and the frame rates are high. Facial expressions and gestures in the game also look great, making the experience of playing the game much more realistic and believable. The crowd also animates quickly so that the illusion of a raging sea of fans is noticeable.
In the sound department things go slightly downhill, though they don't hit rock bottom. Browse games Game Portals. FIFA 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. Game review Downloads Screenshots What we thought "FIFA is undeniably superb, but we can't help feeling that somewhere they've got the perfect game.
The new engine is smoother and the players look much more life-like. This game is amazing! All my friends agree. The graphics, sound and gameplay kick ass!
FIFA is by far the best footy game I have ever played! Firstly, it's impossible to play using the keys which I had to do because my mate had the joypad and secondly the AI stinks; players just mince about all over the place. Also, it's almost impossible to score from distance. I hate it. When will someone release a decent football game?
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