FIFA Football 2004 (GC)

You have to pity us Gamecube owners really. No Club Football, This Is Football, not even the Euro 2004 titles and in particular the absence of Pro Evolution Soccer (bar those who import). And so it leaves the Gamecube owners with either the awful Virtual Striker, the rapidly falling ISS series or EA’s infamous FIFA titles. As a Leeds United supporter I felt it only right to buy FIFA 2004, to try and see if I can re-live the woeful 2003-2004 season… to live what might have been. And yet of course the bad press surrounding the series put me off, can EA actually make a playable football game? This is what I could never truly understand, aren’t all ...

A long time ago i owned the original FIFA soccer on the Mega Drive. The last football game i had was on the sega saturn, and although it never had an official licence (bryan bingham played wing for Wales instead of Ryan Giggs), it was a great game. I had always loved the EA hockey on my older consoles too and had heard a lot of Hype about the latest incarnation of the fifa series. I watched a friend of mine play FIFA 2003 on his Xbox and thought I gotta get Fifa 2004. Why did i bother. maybe i was nieve to expect it to look like the x box version of just a year earlier but it doesnt look much better than my old saturn game from many years ago. ok the close up give ...

The best FIFA ever - Advantages: Off the ball control, Career Mode, Organic Animation - Disadvantages: Seemingly lenghty wait