As Andy noted in his FIFA 08 review, you’ll be amazed at the amount of detail EA has gone into here, and at how incredibly it all flows together. The animation, meanwhile, is just stunning. Player likenesses still veer between the uncanny (John Terry, Wayne Rooney) and the merely weird (Steve McLaren) but even the dodgy ones are leagues ahead of any close-up work in the last Pro Evo. Visual enhancements are minor, though given the fantastic graphics of FIFA 08, that’s not really much of a criticism. Some of them make Euro 2008 worth your while. In this case, however, it has new areas of content to make up for this loss. What’s more, it’s still FIFA 08 with some major areas of content removed – predictably the clubs and leagues on the national level. On one level it’s still FIFA 08 with a few new tweaks, features and enhancements. UEFA Euro 2008 isn’t quite essential, but it’s an excellent football game. Now EA looks set to do the same to the second. While Pro Evo has struggled to make the most of a new HD console generation, EA finally managed to get blinding visuals and a cracking game together in one package, resulting in a FIFA that still had its own style of execution, but could just about stand up to Pro Evo on gameplay terms (although still nowhere near as fluid). With FIFA 08, EA put paid to the first theory. After all, you were basically buying an awkward halfway house between next year’s game and last year’s, with a sizable portion of the content taken out. What’s more, only the terminally dim or easily influenced would buy the special tournament specific games that came between proper FIFAs. The smarter gamer bought Pro Evo because it was THE serious football game. Suckers bought FIFA for the licensed teams, tournaments and players along with the eye candy. EA made the beautiful game look beautiful, but we all knew that Pro Evo delivered the more convincing, fast-paced, fluid simulation. You used to know where you were with console football games. ”’Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PC, PSP – PlayStation 3 version reviewed.”’
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