PS2 - FIFA Football 2004 - Playstation 2

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Original Game + Booklet

While we Americans are neck deep in the midst of a wild, mud-crunching football season (that's American football, with helmets and stuff), the rest of the world is madly tapping buttons to a different beat. They're playing soccer, football, ah heck, futball. Regarded as the best selling soccer franchise in the world, FIFA Soccer might take the popular vote, but yet it never wins the presidency. It still hasn't convinced the Western world of soccer critics (i.e. the gameplaying population of Europe) that its easy-to-play FIFA series has the realistic roots and genuine cajones of its biggest competitor, Winning Eleven 6, aka Pro Evolution Soccer, or whatever Konami has renamed its stellar soccer franchise this year. So what has EA cooked up this year to turn our heads?

As has been the pattern for three years running, EA has packed it sports games with killer new features, and this year's FIFA is, without a doubt, a sardine tin stuffed with footy goodness. Taking Off-The-Ball game control from its brethren NBA Live, implementing an objective-based career mode, smoothing out the graphics, and, for the first time in any soccer game, adding the first online features (for the PS2 version), EA has crossed its T's and dotted its I's in every regard. Additionally, there is little doubt in our minds that the game offers a near-perfect presentation in every aspect. But does the game play better and more realistically than before?