For the last three years FIFA has beat the Pro Evo series in the charts but has lacked the near perfect gameplay, And the real gamers choice had to be Pro Evo, But this year EA have closed the gap quite considerably. The gameplay and controls are now nearly as fluid as PES3. The only new feature to the gameplay is the "Off The Ball" mode, which quite frankly doesn?t work to good. The idea is that as you have the ball you also control another player to try and position them for a good pass but this is very hard and most of the time works in the other teams favor. FIFA?s big weapon as always is their licences which greatly out numbers Pro Evo. Lets face it you?d rather play as a team called Manchester Utd with Ryan Giggs than Forever Reds with Ron Graham. Fifa have over 300 teams going down to devision 3 and 10,000+ players with, it must be said, great likeness to the real players. Game modes vary from Penalty shoot-outs to full season tournaments. But it does lack some of the fun mini game of PES3.
Graphics -
Graphically this smashes Pro Evo into the ground. The players likness to the real players is quite frankly scary. The stadiums look beautiful with detailed crowds that add so much to the gameplay, when you kick a ball into the crownd they put their hands up to try and catch it. The camera doesn?t really have a good position to show these graphics off at their best though, its so far out it makes runs very hard, especially when you have various players around you that you must dodge.
Lifespan -
As with most sports game this has near infinite gameplay long after you win all the cups. Completing all of the cups will take you 2 weeks+ and if you select a not so good team like Leeds it will take you alot longer. You can manage your team to a certain degree but if EA added a manager mode ala Champ Manager 4 it would put it miles ahead of the compotiton, and the Xbox hardrive would be perfect for this. Multiplayer is also great fun with a few new features but it doesn?t beat PES which is undoubtably the Multiplayer king of sports games.
Overall -
So is it better than Pro Evo? no. But EA have closed the gap and Konami had better watch their back. If you need all of the real names and teams you should get this, but if you like fluid, responsive gameplay and dont mind about stupid team and player names get PES3.
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