FIFA Soccer 2004

"Fifa 2004, Greatest Football/Soccer Game Yet!"

WHAT IS IT AND WHATS IN IT
It's a football game, its all licesed, so all team and player names are offical, theres a hell of alot of teams, which even include second and third divisions in some leagues! There is a 5 year career mode where you are like the manager of the team, you can have your team train, or you can buy players, but this all costs in money and in your type of 'ability points' which you are awarded everytime you complete a goal, like win the league or keep a cleen sheet 10 games in a row!

7 - CONTROLS - 7
Nice simple controls, but does have a complicted mode, which you don't need to use if you don't want to, it bascally just changes your formation and playing style, but you could just press start and do it in the option menu it you find it hard to use!(Like me!)

6 - SOUND - 6
The actual in match sound is fine, but the music in the menus, is poor! They have tried to reach out to everytype of person by having differnt genres of music, but alot is from differnt contries like brazil and germany, so you cant understand what there saying, and the music that is english is poor, but you may like it, we aint all the same!!!

8 - VISUALS - 8
Nice! The players look like the players there supposed to be! The stadiums also look great, the only thing that isnt so good is the crowd itself, but you wouldn't expect it to look good anyway, just the normal blotches in the stands, BUT, they have tried to make it better by having the first two rows of people 3D!

9 - LIFESPAN - 9
You will play this for ages aslong as you've got people to play it with! But even if you don't you can still play a long (5 year) career mode! There is also a part where you have like a gallary of kits, which you unlock when you play them, so you will need to play every team on the game to unlock all of them!

8 - OVERALL - 8
IMO the best football game out, that you dont have to import from japan (Winning eleven!). If you like football you will like it, and if you play it you will see how much better it is compared to Pro Evolution!

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 04/16/04