If you’re at all familiar with what we’ll colloquially refer to as ‘modern FIFA’, then you’ll know that slick presentation is part of the package. And so, here we have FIFA 07, which went up against PES 6 in the final battle for superiority on the previous generation of consoles (the 360 did get versions of both games, but it was still relatively early days for the system – and it was the PS2 versions that were ported to PC, anyway), and is generally considered to be the point at which EA started to turn the series around. On the other side of things, though, it seems worth acknowledging one game as a representative of the series’ more recent history, and as a counterpoint to the coverage of PS2-era PES elsewhere on the site. Indeed, the major selling point that FIFA has always had (and the one thing it had over PES) – all the official licenses that money can buy – becomes much less relevant when you’re looking back at things years later and everything is out of date anyway. The main stumbling block is that most of them are simply not very good, and none of them come close to touching the mighty PES. The ball physics were awful, too, and when the ball was in the air it swirled around erratically, as if filled with iron filings and under the influence of several powerful magnets dotted around the stadium.Īs a fan of football games, the thought occasionally strikes me that chronicling the history of the FIFA series in some detail might be both interesting and worthwhile, although I’ve never really managed to convince myself. The last one I paid full price for was FIFA 2002, a horrible mess of a game that was undermined by EA’s determination to fit everything around a through-ball gimmick, to the extent that the simple things, such as playing a short pass to a nearby team-mate, became a bothersome chore. Unfortunately, though, the series took a serious turn for the worse in the early part of the noughties, and as this also happened to coincide with my discovery of the venerable Pro Evolution Soccer series, my seasonal fix of FIFA became a thing of the past. The excitement was heightened by the fact that FIFA did actually used to change quite a bit from year to year – from ’96 to 2000, particularly – and you wouldn’t always know exactly what to expect. (Or, I took 10 million screenshots and I still have to use this one). A player, playing football, for Liverpool, in a match that’s two minutes old.
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