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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (25 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1317
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15551
UPC: 014633155518
EAN: 0014633155518
ASIN: B000RI17GG
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Fifa 08 February 8, 2008
1 out of 13 found this review helpful
Not into soccer games so its hard to play and control different players. Much better games out there
 What a Waste!!! January 12, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I really long for the days when games played like games. The days when one had a few options and at least some of the options were good. With the growth of the few titans of the industry, we are subjected to various versions of repackaged garbage year after year. Fifa 07 was a mess plain and simple. I had hoped that having another year to tinker with this on a new platform would finally generate some quality. Once again I have been utterly disappointed.
To be fair, the game does have some bright spots;
Graphics are very good, player animation is mostly good and fairly accurate, and the stadium noise and play by play commentators are as usual very good.
Initially when I played the, I played against my brother (both of us seasoned Fifa players), everything seemed dandy with a few isolated issues.
However once I tried playing against the computer, everything broke down, and the game became pretty much unplayable in my opinion for the following reasons:
1) It appears as if none of your team mates has ever set foot on a soccer pitch. No one knows how to pass the ball, how to defend or stay in position.
2) None of your team mates will go after a loose ball, no matter what. They will simply stand by and watch an opponent scope it up. Passes do not go where you aim all the time sometimes they do and sometimes for no apparent reason, they don't quite. Off course there is always the ever seeing AI to take advantages of these situations.
3) It doesn't matter who you are paying as, you can't outrun any of the computer controlled defenders nor can your defenders get anyone of the ball with any success.
4) The referee must run around with blinders on or he must be in the pocket of whichever AI opponent I play. He swallows his whistle while you get thrown and shoved around the pitch and miraculously finds it if you are able to make a challenge.
5) It is almost impossible to maintain possession of the ball to any length, if an AI opponent even breaths in your direction, you loose the ball. Ah but wait, just watch in amazement as the AI strikers weave and draw circles around your clueless defenders.
In short this game in a nutshell has characterized a lot of EA's sports titles lately. I am a football (soccer) fan; I played soccer for years as a kid and have watched the game on several levels from kids including me, playing in our backyards with rocks for goals to the English premier league. On no level do I see anything resembling the rubbish that EA has called a soccer offering for 2008. I can't believe that any of the designers, testers or anybody at any level that had anything to do with this piece of trash ever played soccer or has even seen the game played.
Ok. Fed up with playing against the CPU, I decided to try playing online since the game seemed a lot more balanced when playing with another human being. I already have an xbox live account etc and have been playing games online for a while now, including EA's Fight Night. However trying to get a game going, I was greeted with a new sign in screen with so much fine print that it literally took me almost a half hour to get through!!!!! I guess EA assumes that most people will simply click "I Agree" and move forward, but at this point I had to see what they had to say that would take up soooo much. The gist of it is that they are collecting your information including your user tag, birthday, etc and have cookies which will install themselves on your machine (pc users) and monitor only for their purposes of course how long you play etc so you can be properly advertised to.
Perhaps I was pissed of already at this point but that was the last straw. To charge $60 for this game, another $60 to Microsoft for access to Xbox live and then sign away to have ads imbedded in the game when I play online and my info sold to others, so EA can make even more money, oh yeah off course you indemnify them from everything under the sun, and to top it all off, the game plays like crapola...
All I can say is that I am glad I only rented this game.
 Still Room for Improvement December 28, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've had this game a couple months now, and overall it's probably the best soccer/football game for XBox360. With that being said, there are some definite things I don't like about it, and things I wish were carried over from previous FIFA games.
The good: An amazing selection of teams and players, great graphics. It's hard to imagine having more choices for teams. Even the Irish league is on here, a first for EA.
The not-so-good: As usual, the AI players (players not controlled by you) act like they've never played the sport before. Try not switching players when the other team has the ball, and watch as your defense sits back and lets them take shots at your goal. Yet when you have the ball anywhere near the box, the computer team swarms you. I'm also trying to figure out the secret to a successful corner (how does Peter Crouch NOT win the ball against much-smaller and inferior defenders? Good question, but it happens routinely on this game).
I've also had some issues with the penalties. The button to clear the ball is the same as the button to slide tackle. On more than one occasion, I've thought I was clearing the ball when instead it had already been miraculously stolen from me and I've ended up tackling a player instead, resulting in a free kick or penalty. I've also had free kicks given - almost always conveniently near the box - just for taking control of a defender and making contact with the other team.
One other thing I miss from previous versions is the custom camera angle. You basically get a few camera angles to choose from, and cannot customize them in any way shape or form. I find that I am either too close to the action (and can't see approaching defenders or players on my team who are open) or too far away (where I can't tell who has the ball).
The stadium set-up is weird, too. I liked it better when teams who didn't have a custom stadium played in a random one with no name. I played a game as Celtic the other day and their home stadium was not Celtic Park, but as if that wasn't enough, it was a stadium with a Spanish-sounding name. If you don't want to create Celtic Park, fine, but don't have them playing in a stadium with a name that clearly is not their home stadium. That just seems stupid to me, and educated football fans know Celtic don't play in El Stadio Olympico or whatever they have them playing in.
When I think back to previous versions of the series, I think the older versions were just a lot more fun. The crowds even seemed smarter and more in tune with things - remember when the Liverpool crowd would sing "Michael Rowed His Boat Ashore" after Michael Owen would score? I guess I just miss some of these things that appear to have been sacrificed for better graphics.
A step in the right direction December 8, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Fifa 08 is a marked improvement over fifa 07,the addition of skill moves and a ridiculous numer of leagues has made this year's installment a must have for any soccer fan.The graphics and player movement are spot on,the stadiums are surreal.
The only thing that's a bit fustrating about the game is the difficult level.This fifa pehaps has the steepest learning curve I've seen in my 9 years of the EA Sports FIFA series.So its really rewarding to score 6 goals against Arsenal FC.
Very realistic but not as fun as Pro Evo 2008.... December 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I originally purchased Pro Evolution 2008 (Australian version), however, was a bit dissapointed with the graphics and very dissapointed with the online play. In fact Pro Evo 2008 is so jerky it is almost unplayable online.
So after a few weeks I also purchased FIFA 2008. The best four things about FIFA 2008 when compared with Pro Evo 2008 are:
(1) The graphics and realism is much better. It is almost like watching a football game on TV.
(2) The fully licenced teams & players. Even LA Galaxy with David Beckham and the Australian Hyundai A League.
(3) The on-line play actually works and is very playable. In fact the online features with FIFA 2008 are great.
(4) I find the camera angles to be better in Pro Evo 2008.
However, for the casual player (like myself) FIFA 2008 just doesn't feel as much FUN to play as Pro Evo 2008. By comparison, passes and shooting for goal feels spongy. Even on the easiest difficulty setting FIFA 2008 is much harder than Pro Evo 2008. With Pro Evo 2008 on the easiest setting you end up with some big scoring games. In this respect it probably has a more Arcade feel to it than FIFA 2008. However Pro Evo 2008 is FUN. Even when you play it occasionally (so you have not necessarily mastered all of the moves).
In summary, if you are a die hard football fan looking for total realism then FIFA 2008 is your game.
If you are after a game which will give you much fun with less frustration to master (and you are not concerned about online play) then Pro Evo 2008 is your choice as far as I am concerned.
I find I play Pro Evo 2008 far more than FIFA 2008 for this reason.
Saying this, if FIFA 2008 had Pro Evo 2008 great ball control and Fun Factor for the casual player (at least on the easiest settings) then it would be almost perfect.
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