FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup Review

By Tom Bramwell Published 28 November, 2005

Roadkill.

Version tested: Xbox 360

They say that the closer you get to realism, the more you notice the stuff that's missing.

So, by that token, FIFA 06: Road To FIFA World Cup must be one of the most realistic games ever made, because I have a notepad full of things I've classed as "missing".

Of course, what they really meant was that as you start to better emulate the smallest details - moving eyes, mouths, jawlines, flushing cheeks and so on - your brain does a much better job spotting the smaller blemishes, and weighs them more heavily against the overall image. In the case of FIFA 06 on Xbox 360, things like the way that everyone's been glazed in slime, the way John Terry's jaw appears to be trying to escape his face, and the way that David Beckham looks like some sort of comedy duck. Close in on someone's face in Pro Evolution Soccer and you're left in no doubt that it's unrealistic, but the makings of resemblance are easier for your brain to reconcile with than what we have here, which is the reanimated occupants of a mausoleum caught in the bask of a full moon. After a gunge-shower.

Shot, it has to be pointed out, against a backdrop of choreographed muppets, who leap up and down in unison and clap their hands as though Mr Motivator is standing behind you with ten pounds of C4 strapped to his chest and a sign saying "Work it!" held above his head. To round out the effect, we have the effects. I have no idea what the individual technological terms are, but I can tell you that they have given us grass that appears to be six inches long for no other reason than we need to be able to marvel at the grass, and a thin layer of blurry fur that appears to be stuck to every man, woman and child (and ball and goalpost) in the stadium - presumably a side effect of the varying focus, which blurs anything it doesn't expect you to be directly looking at, resulting in a headache for this writer after extended play. There's also the lighting effect, so powerful and intense that when you pause and unpause the game, it takes about a second for it to refill the world with its faux-vibrancy.

'FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup' Screenshot hell

Play well or I drag your children into the depths of HELL!

The animation system had the potential to rescue FIFA from the horror of its make-up department, but sadly fails just as spectacularly. The player models are often quite impressive (I've never seen so many shadows and ripples of muscle on a man's calf, for example), but only in very small doses. When you first see Rio Ferdinand turn to the ref and his eyes widen, before he wheels round raising his arm in a mixture of anger and bewilderment at a peculiar decision, it's rather more believable than anything else you've seen in a football game (assuming it's Rio and not, say, Zombieface Terry or Ben Grimm Rooney). But when you've seen it 25 times, from different players, it loses its impact.

The mistimed challenges that prompt the animation certainly don't lose their impact, however; one of the most entertaining things in this version of FIFA (if not the only entertaining thing) is scything down your opposition and then receiving a close-up replay of the highly detailed models - almost human from the waist down - attempting to redistribute a person's joints using their studs. Of course, the fact that your ludicrously braindead tackling prompts genuine disbelief and confusion in players and commentators alike merely serves to reinforce the fact that this game is actually far, far less believable and engaging on a pure footballing level than anything Konami's made in the last five years. The parts themselves, even if you can overlook the genuine hilarity of their overall composition, simply don't work together believably.

What's amazing is that I haven't even mentioned the awful slowdown that occurs in all the replays yet - nor the absolutely dreadful regular animation, where players appear to be frolicking along as though held up by the strings of a puppeteer, managing to lumber somewhat like zombies as well as resemble them, and then manoeuvring like dancing fleas as they pirouette inorganically three or four times in a row on the spot whilst under no pressure at all.

But, you know, if we're going that way, we might as well get into the game itself.

'FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup' Screenshot thighs

Marble at my muscular thighs!

You will already have spotted that this is a "Road to the World Cup" edition. The reasons for this are twofold: 1) it's the World Cup next year, and obviously we need a game which allows us to play through the group stages with a similarly slothful and depressing lack of endeavour, and 2) obviously the content creation for a far more visually intensive next-gen console game is a lot simpler when you can get away using around 15 per cent of the players you featured in the last Xbox version.

Here you can adopt the mantle of one of around 72 teams involved in the quest for qualification, and guide them through their group stage (including a few preliminary friendlies for good measure). You can also create custom tournaments, practice, and play matches (ranked or unranked) on Xbox Live. That's it. But this skeletal structure is not even the most obvious reason not to buy it.

The problem appears to be this: a couple of years ago, EA sat down and thought, "Why is Pro Evolution Soccer so popular?" Its answer was, "Because there are no goals!" It didn't quite understand this, but somebody hit 'New' on the flow-chart application anyway and what we've got at this point is game which feels slow, cumbersome, awkward and unexciting. Where it's virtually impossible to get into the final third without relying on cheeky lofted through-balls that are cut out more often than not anyway; where the ball switches possession more often than Wayne Rooney uses a purple word; where players don't so much embark on runs as they do map cul-de-sacs whilst dragging a ball and chain; and where the differences between individual players are best catalogued using their facial deformities and the commentators' habit of paying undue attention to whichever's been in the papers lately, as their actual skills are almost indistinguishable from one another.

'FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup' Screenshot skeletor

I am Zinedine Zidane! And not, for example, Skeletor.

The ball moves seemingly on rails, at weird velocities with unjust momentum, robbing any lofted ball of the feeling of weight. Precision is at an absolute premium. Players move glacially, even the nippiest ones, so that they can be scythed down in time to prevent them reaching anywhere dangerous. The ball bobbles along like it's made of wool and someone's snagged an end on one of the salmon in the stands. There are virtually no breakaways, and defenders just drop off and drop off and drop off; goals are often scored simply because you've comically dispossessed somebody on their six-yard line, or the ball's scuffed in off someone's shin.

Dropping deep is something the AI does in PES, of course, but while it defends deep there it also gives you the means to defend. With its unbelievable ball behaviour, erratic AI and inconsistent or unmanageable tackling mechanics, oft-inexplicable player selection, and that prevailing sense that if you point the stick the right way and hold the pressing button you'll solve the defensive problem before it becomes an issue anyway, FIFA is ultimately hugely tedious, and utterly misses the point. Worse, in the context of the series, is that the goals don't even look spectacular any more.

Really, to describe what EA has produced here as dreadful would be to do a terrible disservice to things that merely inspire dread. It's a game that not only fails to live up to the potential inherent to the new graphics and processing hardware at its disposal, but arguably in its failure manages to raise valid questions and concerns about everybody else's attempts to wield said technical advances as tools of realism, because it exposes so expertly the potential flaws in this approach. In a sense, it's not only awful, but it's also sabotaging everybody else's efforts at the same time. As a game, it's not much better. I like football, I like football games; I find it hard to recognise this in either category.

2 / 10

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  • Daan #1 6 years ago

    2/10. Wow. It must be bad then.
    Edited by 1 at 28/11/05 @ 13:00

  • knif3r #2 6 years ago

    bet it stays top of the chart for Christmas coz it's got Fifa in the title

  • Pots #3 6 years ago

    2? Shit.

  • El_MUERkO #4 6 years ago

    bahahahahaha

    damn that was funny

    /waits for 360fbs to start crying 'omgz sony luva!!!2123'

  • tiddles #5 6 years ago

    Pity - "Road to World Cup 98" was one of the best, they have shamed the name...

  • smelly #6 6 years ago

    bet it stays top of the chart for Christmas coz it's got Fifa in the title

    there wont be enough 360's around for that to happen.

  • neuroniky #7 6 years ago

    The "roadkill" subtitle is pure genius.

  • paulf #8 6 years ago

    the other EA sports games have been getting lacklustre reviews as well, NBA 2006 has the freestyle moves removed, Tiger has lost over half his courses and now this. Shame on you EA shame on you ...

  • Eighthours #9 6 years ago

    EA really have taken the biscuit with nearly all of their 360 lineup. Underdeveloped, rushed titles that could really do with another year of development. Cynical bunch of tossers.

    Reviewer: How would you have scored FIFA 2006 on the present consoles, so we can have something to compare the score to?
    Edited by 1 at 28/11/05 @ 13:13

  • space_ace #10 6 years ago

    well it's better than the sims 2: christmas

  • botherer #11 6 years ago

    Reviews are just opinion and you hate football and the Fifa series can only be liked by people with the correct genetic code so you shouldn't have reviewed it and it's just your opinion and I haven't played this game or read this review but the game is great and this review is rubbish.

  • mastermariner #12 6 years ago

    But X-360 magazine thought it so good that they secured the exclusive cover review and gave it 8/10!

    "As a new beginning for the FIFA franchise, we couldn't have asked for much more," they say.

    Hmmm.

  • Rev.StuartCampbell #13 6 years ago

    "Marble"?

  • Sid-Nice #14 6 years ago

    Don't knock the Xbox 360; it makes the Xbox PES5 look even better. :)

  • smelly #15 6 years ago

    I haven't played this game or read this review but the game is great and this review is rubbish.

    wtf? are you trying to be ironic?

  • BremXJones #16 6 years ago

    Yes, he is :)

    KG

  • Genji #17 6 years ago

    THIS THREAD IS ABOUT TO EXPLOOODE!

  • aabyssx #18 6 years ago

    What? 2 rubbish EA games reviewed today?
    Has EA forgot to send the monthly cheque? >:)

    (...)

    Just joking, just joking! Of course. ;)

  • Furbs #19 6 years ago

    C'mon! Its gotta be better than FIFA 97 or the 3D0 effort?

  • PuffyPipe #20 6 years ago

    How many times can the Pro Evo series beat FIFA before people realise that FIFA is still a pile of turd no matter how much u polish it!

  • Genji #21 6 years ago

    Wouldn't, uh, MOVIES show the game in motion? ;-)

  • Wrobel #22 6 years ago

    the way that David Beckham looks like some sort of comedy duck

    Sounds pretty realistic to me :-)

  • Tweakmonkey #23 6 years ago

    I fear for the future of gaming.

  • smelly #24 6 years ago

    How many times can the Pro Evo series beat FIFA before people realise that FIFA is still a pile of turd no matter how much u polish it!

    people like pretty graphics regardles of games..

    (just look at how many 360's have been pre-ordered)

  • theiceman #25 6 years ago

    2? what a crap game.

    /removes pre-order from game.

  • AceMaCool #26 6 years ago

    lol

  • tengu #27 6 years ago

    The next gen starts here.

  • Genji #28 6 years ago

    Me? Nitpick? Never!

  • alimokrane #29 6 years ago

    Well a very good day for EA. First a 1 for Sims and then 2 for FIFA 06 RTFWC ... Good Job Eurogamer I love you ..... honestly I do ... f*** EA and its games

  • Artemis_Matsas #30 6 years ago

    Hmmm... EA is getting more and more careless. Rushed and incomplete games are the way to end your bussines.

    As for the "creepy" appearance of the players, i totally agree. The screenshots are a freaking horror show!!!

  • bunglebonce #31 6 years ago

    well it's better than the sims 2: christmas

    I didn't believe you until I checked the other review! Wowsers.

    I remember Fifa's first PS2 game being a load of Betty Swallocks, too.
    Edited by 1 at 28/11/05 @ 13:35

  • bunglebonce #32 6 years ago

    Close in on someone's face in Pro Evolution Soccer and you're left in no doubt that it's unrealistic, but the makings of resemblance are easier for your brain to reconcile with than what we have here, which is the reanimated occupants of a mausoleum caught in the bask of a full moon.

    I honestly don't think I've come across a better line than that in my time of reading EG.

  • Yossarian #33 6 years ago

    I'm glad somebody in the industry is prepared to actually use all of the scoring scale, instead of marking games between 7 and 10.

  • Arganoid #34 6 years ago

    Now I want to get it just to see the "comedy duck".

  • towser #35 6 years ago

    sweet jesus! Sven looks like one of the scientists from Doom 3.

  • PuffyPipe #36 6 years ago

    bunglebonce wrote :
    "I remember Fifa's first PS2 game being a load of Betty Swallocks, too."

    So the other 9 FIFA PS2 tittles were any better??

  • SwedBear #37 6 years ago

    Ouch. Well, I was a bit worried that EA would rush their sports-game to the Xbox 360 and it seems like that's what they have done.

    I was already worried in the Xbox-version of Fifa 2006 about the strange blur that were present and it sounds like they used it here to.

    Luckily PES5 works fine on the 360. I played it yesterday (to test backwrds combability) and it played very well. Looks nice too although of course not next-gen gfx.

  • Darren #38 6 years ago

    I had to double-check that this wasn't an ultra-late review of FIFA Street with that score. While I can accept that the game has flaws, seeing as everyone else has rated it between 6 and 7/10, I find it hard to believe that it is as bad as 2/10 and it's even harder to believe that it's worse than FIFA Street!!! lol

    Only time will tell but I've pre-ordered it anyway...
    Edited by 1 at 28/11/05 @ 13:43

  • Zuiyo #39 6 years ago

    "Reviews are just opinion and you hate football and the Fifa series can only be liked by people with the correct genetic code so you shouldn't have reviewed it and it's just your opinion and I haven't played this game or read this review but the game is great and this review is rubbish."

    I feel some grudge.

  • SIDEARM #40 6 years ago

    God thats just shocking. You know the scary thing is though that EA can continue to produce games which range only from atrocious to merely incompetent and yet remain the foremost power in video game publishing and production. Their internal studios really need a kick up the arse. It would be realy scary if EA did buy out Ubisoft - I might lose all hope for the future at that point....

  • Zomoniac #41 6 years ago

    I've played the demo at length, it's awful beyond belief, agree fully with this review. So were the rumours that RTWC98 would be a fulll unlockable within the game lies then?

  • bunglebonce #42 6 years ago

    bunglebonce wrote :
    "I remember Fifa's first PS2 game being a load of Betty Swallocks, too."

    So the other 9 FIFA PS2 tittles were any better??

    I know it doesn't say much, but they were certainly better than the first one. *Shudder*

  • theidiotsarewinning #43 6 years ago

    is it just international teams then? RTWC98 was great because you had the whole qualifying thing AND more or less every club/league in the world

  • Dizzy #44 6 years ago

    EA in shite sequel shocker!

    Well at least the world is still round.

  • ssuellid #45 6 years ago

    Brutal review. Very good.

  • HarryOla #46 6 years ago

    Four times worse than Fifa Street. Ouch. Somebody had to say it.

  • alpha-0ne #47 6 years ago

    This game is not a great game but no 2/10

    http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/928333.asp ?q=fifa%202006

    the average based on 13 reviews is 64% and that included the 2/10 from eurogamer

    People can jusge for themselves if theis review is consistent or not

  • bootsy_NL_30 #48 6 years ago

    good review , about time FIFA started getting those 2's and 1's

    shoddy franchise of a great sport

  • Furbs #49 6 years ago

    Excuse my french, but I wish people would FUCK OFF with mentioning GameRankings. If you're that fussed about it, just go there, look at the scores and dont bother posting, since you are obviously more interested in an arbitory number.

    Take a look at their top 5 rated games. Is that really the best 5 games of all time? Is it bollock. IN. MY. OPINION.

  • tengu #50 6 years ago

    Thanks for being the one to say it furbs, I was reluctant to do it myself in case someone jumped down my throat :)

    I'm bloody sick of gamerankings always being used as 'proof' EG reviews are 'wrong'.

  • HarryOla #51 6 years ago

    Interesting statistics.

    Average review score of 4 360 games from Eurogamer: 5.5
    All other sites for these 4 games: 7.8

    PGR3: joint lowest score given by EG
    Kameo: lowest score by at least 1 mark
    Condemned: Only EDGE scored this lower (one mark)
    Fifa: lowest score by 3 marks

    Do I see a pattern?

  • Furbs #52 6 years ago

    Yes. You are stupid.

  • Ecanem #53 6 years ago

    Hit. Nail. Head. Furbs! =P

  • posh_geordie #54 6 years ago

    Post deleted at 18:45:04 02-01-2012

  • jack_klugman #55 6 years ago

    The glory days of Virtua Tennis's Zombie Henman are reborn! Truly the 360 is the new Dreamcast.

  • jack_klugman #56 6 years ago

    Do I see a pattern?

    The pattern of institutional rubbishness on the part of people developing for the '360?

  • lotteryman82 #57 6 years ago

    even if you are trying to make a point
    i recomment erasing Fifa from the list
    coz Fifa sux in many ways i fear more than its good points
    so u r not going to convince for a bad pattern of misjugded games
    by including Fifa in there
    just that

  • tengu #58 6 years ago

    "Truly the 360 is the new Dreamcast."

    Considering that was the best console of the past ten years, I hope your statement proves correct :)

  • jack_klugman #59 6 years ago

    Considering that was the best console of the past ten years, I hope your statement proves correct

    Couldn't agree with you more, buddy!

  • smelly #60 6 years ago

    Do I see a pattern?

    The pattern is geeks using numbers as "proof" a review is wrong without reading the words to see why the review thought said game was good/crap.

  • sajtion #61 6 years ago

    i totally agree who is ea trying to fool them bastards. fifa xxxx game are not worth a penny anymore. f**k ea forever

  • HansGr00ber #62 6 years ago

    so how long is it till EA release World Cup 06? 2, maybe 3 months?

  • tobi #63 6 years ago

    i love seeing fifa fail...PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER IS FOR MEN, FIFA IS FOR BOYS!!!

  • Nocturne #64 6 years ago

    There was a brief period about a year ago when I actually thought EA were serious about giving Fifa a serious revamp, but it appears I was simply being naive. EA are back to their old tricks again. This is exactly the kind of launch title that the xbox360 could do without, as people will make snap judgements based of one game, let's just hope for Microsoft's sake that not many play this monstrosity.

  • mr_steve100 #65 6 years ago

    "Truly the 360 is the new Dreamcast."

    Considering that was the best console of the past ten years, I hope your statement proves correct :)

    I've still got my DC tucked away in case I need some Rez-loving...

    Anyway, EA have got too many 'uneducated' children to worry about us 'older' lot - they can rely on the little 'uns to go and buy these sorts of games and keep their evil enterprise churning out sequel after sequel of pap.

  • t8yman #66 6 years ago

    first time poster here, but felt I needed to add a comment.
    My friend and I went to the zero hour launch in California last week, and were obviously keen to play this. (aside from the fact that cod2, perfect dark zero, and quake 4 were constantly surrounded by fat arsed yanks who refused to give up their seat and let someone else have a go)
    I feel this review is about as close to reality as any review I have ever read, the only thing I would add is that the player selection is AWFUL, you had to tap the green button about 4 times to select the player you needed. This game sucks bigtime. I think 2 was generous. And for the record, I wanted to like it when I sat down, because this game, need for speed, gun and THAW were the only games you could get on without a massive brawl.

  • HarryOla #67 6 years ago

    Some different statistics.

    EA have four of the bottom 6 launch games on gamerankings. Way to go EA. Only NHL 2k6 and Amped 3 saving them from absolute ignominy. Strangely most wanted is the 4th highest scoring game.

  • Neverness #68 6 years ago

    "...Underdeveloped, rushed titles that could really do with another year of development..."

    I'm sorry but I found this comment most amusing.

    :-D

    Another year of development...but that would be FIFA 2007 would it not?

  • t8yman #69 6 years ago

    most wanted had 2 pods dedicated to it, and from our arrival at 9am to us leaving at approx 10.00pm, I can honestly say I saw no more than 20 people touch the game, and of those, most left after a few minutes. I didnt bother because I hate the whole NFS franchise since hot pursuit.

  • stonedben #70 6 years ago

    So a 1/10 and a 2/10 for EA in the space of a few hours?

    It's a great day!

  • awb28 #71 6 years ago

    This really has brightened up a dull Monday. Brought back memories of FIFA World Cup 2002 on Gamecube - 4 years on and getting worse.

    Way to go EA

  • Carrybagma #72 6 years ago

    Is the G-man managing England now? Three Ant-Lions on a shirt?
    The hair is a bit dodgy, but Valve should be told.

    And how do you marble at someone's thighs? Sounds a bit pervy.

    BTW - The only XBOX360 pattern I see is greedy firms cashing in on a new console launch by offering piss-weak games. Plenty more to come, I'm sure.

    /points finger at PSP too.

  • Carrybagma #73 6 years ago

    t8yman - worth the trip though?

  • mr_chiquita #74 6 years ago

    Let's not forget that this game would suck big hairy arse on any system.

    It's a cut down horror version of a FIFA game fer chissakes.

    That's like a Spending £50 on a Big Brother DVD Live Feed Box Set, which contains just the distilled 'best bits' -

    ie. that minga Kinga and the bottle scene.

    On a constant repeating loop.

    For 2 hours 56 seconds.

    Euuuuuuurgh

  • wolfen #75 6 years ago

    RTWC98 was great because yu had the whole qualifying thing AND more or less every club/league in the world

    Actua Soccer 3 (not to mention SWOS, but that's a different subject) had more leagues than FIFA 98 (25 vs 10, I think). Of course, the gameplay and the polygon models were in a completely different league altogether, but still, FIFA was (and still is, anyway) a far cry away from having "every league in the world".

    I'm not surprised at all the game turned out to be shit - most of of the first batch of new-gen titles are anyway.

  • tiddles #76 6 years ago

    Is the G-man managing England now?

    Ooh, but imagine if he was.... players could be kept in "slow time" stasis until required, thus assuring their match fitness, and you'd never see him on the bench - instead he'd be up in the stands at the back for a few seconds, then behind the TV cameras near the goal, then in the showers near the towel hooks...

  • Sko #77 6 years ago

    "Ah, Marvin. What was your last job? Extra for Doom3? Played a scientist - oh and grunt in Quake4, eh? Hmmm. Still got that pallid, shiny complexion I see. How about a bit-part as a footballer in Xbox 360 Fifa 06?"

  • t8yman #78 6 years ago

    " t8yman - worth the trip though?"

    absolutely, still stunned that the wife let me swan off to Los Angeles for 5 days this close to chrimbo.

    As far as the 360 offerings being cash ins on the new technology goes, I was highly impressed with Quake, COD2, Perfect Dark,PGR3 and the zombie game Dead Rising (which was a playable demo) was huge fun, dunno how its gonna pan out to a whole game mind.

  • jiroczech #79 6 years ago

    Lol!

  • lordgreg #80 6 years ago

    i would really like to see a playable movie from xbox 360 of this game. 2/10? something went really wrong! :o

  • vane101 #81 6 years ago

    Yet another unconvincing 360 review by Eurogamer, although it sound a bit more reasonable than that shocking Kameo review which didn't make sense at all. That was shocking - 5 indeed!!

    This game doesn't sound any different to the last Fifa game I played on the Xbox. I didn't like it but it was worth a 6.

  • Celeborn #82 6 years ago

    Welcome to uncanny valley

    http://en .wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley

  • Teeth #83 6 years ago

    lmfao at the captions and the filenames of the pictures that they adorn.

  • lotteryman82 #84 6 years ago

    i think its written in the apocalypse that one of the seals will be broken
    when EA changes annual policy so lets stay calm and let EA go on for our
    well being.
    Eventhough if EA could ever change to the better it could push Konami into making a PRO EVO a game that is oriented equally in Grafx and Licences as gameplay
    but its a guess i ll stick to my gamers bible which says EA with bring Armaggedon in gaming lolol

  • Blerk #85 6 years ago

    It's back! \o/

    :-)

  • Furbs #86 6 years ago

    /tin hat
    Oh, and by the way...

    OLD!!!! \o/

    /dies
    Edited by 1 at 02/12/05 @ 10:41

  • morriss #87 6 years ago

    bah!
    Edited by 1 at 02/12/05 @ 10:41

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #88 6 years ago

    Damnit. I had really high hopes for this EA franchise yearly update

  • Furbs #89 6 years ago

    I want a Bertie review...

  • Stickman #90 6 years ago

    "even if you are trying to make a point
    i recomment erasing Fifa from the list
    coz Fifa sux in many ways i fear more than its good points
    so u r not going to convince for a bad pattern of misjugded games
    by including Fifa in there
    just that "

    Is this a haiku?

  • binky #91 6 years ago

    Whilst I don't wholly disagree with this review, and also respect Tom's writing I do wish they would let someone else review the FIFA games sometimes. We all know of Tom's love of PES and as much as I trust his critical eye, I still sometimes feel that the love of Pro Evo gets in the way of a completely constructive review.

    IMHO of course.

    Oh and that is a terrible screeny of Sven, he really doesnt look that bad in game. Its like those pics you see of celebrities in newspapers in Mid-yawn ;)

  • Furbs #92 6 years ago

    Didnt he do the FIFA Street review? Its karma.

    Average it out means both games got 5 which seems fair :)

  • binky #93 6 years ago

    no that was Kruds, i think.

  • Furbs #94 6 years ago

    Ah yeah. Its still karma though :p
    Congrats on NFS:MW though, it rocks.

  • Les #95 6 years ago

    As it looks right now, the only reason to buy a next-gen console is that soon no games will be developed anymore for the current ones...

  • Feanor #96 6 years ago

    "Close in on someone's face in Pro Evolution Soccer and you're left in no doubt that it's unrealistic"

    Maybe i'm easy to please but some of the faces in even PES 4 are amazingly realistic. Michael Ballack, for instance. Ronaldinho even has his front teeth poking out just like in real life.

  • IP #97 6 years ago

    Pfft. This review is so wrong! Everyone knows that a bad game gets 6, an OK game gets 7, a good game gets 8, a great game gets 9 and teh best 3v3r gets 10. This "2" makes me scared.

    (Or, alternatively, well done EG for actually understanding that a rating system that marks out of ten can actually use all of the numbers.)

  • Furbs #98 6 years ago

    I had to get this as part of my bundle - this or Madden or NBA :(
    I really hope its not that bad! :p

    /doesnt hold out much hope though

  • bunglebonce #99 6 years ago

    That Sven pic & caption:

    Maybe we should give EA the benefit of the doubt Giovanni Trapattoni?

    There is still no excuse for the inclusion of the reanimated occupants of a mausoleum caught in the bask of a full moon, though.

  • Saii #100 6 years ago

    Reading other reviews, its clear that alot of sites are not happy with this game but are still giving high scores because EA pay them through advertising. The lowest score being 6 from Gamespot and 6.9 from IGN.
    You just have to listen to the guy in the video review he clearly does not like this game and reccomeneds you buy fifa06 on any other console because the previous version was far far better:
    http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/sports/fifa2006/revie w.html

  • BillGaitas #101 6 years ago

    \o/ lol

    every new Fifa should be rated like this

  • tentonipete #102 6 years ago

    i've thought the puppet thing about all fifa games

    KG

  • sajtion #103 6 years ago

    just a reminder to easports 2 out of 10 lol hahahahahaha

  • vane101 #104 6 years ago

    Fifa games may be dodgy but in no way are they 2 out of 10 dodgy. That's just nonsense. Even the old Intellivision Soccer is worth more than that even up against today's standards. There's no point using this review to make a decision on whether to buy the game (or the Kameo review). I won't be!

  • Xerx3s #105 6 years ago

    Arnt you beeing a bit leniant on this game? It should have gotton less than a 1 imo.

    "the other EA sports games have been getting lacklustre reviews as well, NBA 2006 has the freestyle moves removed, Tiger has lost over half his courses and now this. Shame on you EA shame on you ... "

    Errrr, dunno what world you are living in, but this is what they do and why they are hated so much.

  • miiiguel #106 6 years ago

    C'mon people EG is right (at least in this case), this game must be ridicularized because they try to charge you 65 Eur. for this piece of garbage.

  • Furbs #107 6 years ago

    Played it for a while then? :D

  • miiiguel #108 6 years ago

    Anyway, I'm not fundamental against EA's FIFA games, the PSP 2006 edition, in my opinion is (marginaly) superior to PES5 release of the same console.
    I also don't rely on EG reviews when doing a game choice, mainly because of what I read form Kameo, and the out-of-time considerations about Amped3.

  • btawton #109 6 years ago

    1/10 - DO NOT GET THIS GAME, ITS SHIT AS FUCK...the graphics are breath-taking, but the gameplay is fucking bollocks and i wasted 50£ on this piece of shit xmas time...its like a game of ping pong, they take the ball off you, and they fucking give it back the dopy cunts at EA has fucked this up....

  • Nithron #110 5 years ago

    This game might be absolutely brilliant for all I care, the review was hilarious.