12DOVE Verdict
Pros
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Up to date rosters
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Solid soccer game
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Multiplayer is still a blast
Cons
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Shoehorned controls
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Lame party games
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Wasted potential
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Oct 17, 2007
Well, we must have misinterpreted the early signs for this one, because despite being promoted by a Mii-style Ronaldinho and featuring cartoony backgrounds and crazy new controls, it’s actually very much a traditional FIFA game. Quite a dated one, at that.
If you stay away from the brightly coloured Party menu option then this is essentially a PS2-erasoccer game, with the default camera angle changed to a vertically scrolling view to accommodate some counter-intuitive motion controls.
Most of the standard commands, such as crossing, shooting, passing and tackling, have been re-mapped to up/down/left/right movements of the remote. To do a hard shot, you flick the remote up while running with the ball. To do a soft shot, you flick it down. Or is it the other way round? We forget.
More info
| Genre | Sports |
| Description | Two-time FIFA World Player of the Year Ronaldinho will be the face that launches a few hundred thousand FIFA 08 units come autumn for Xbox 360, PS2, PSP, DS, PC, and for the first time PS3 and Wii. |
| Platform | "Xbox 360","PS2","PSP","DS","Wii","PC","PS3" |
| US censor rating | "Everyone","Everyone","Everyone","Everyone","Everyone","Everyone","Everyone" |
| UK censor rating | "3+","3+","3+","3+","3+","3+","3+" |
| Release date | 1 January 1970 (US), 1 January 1970 (UK) |
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