FIFA Football 2003 (PS2)

Erm not quite there yet, but instead for the meantime we have FIFA 2003. Fifa has always been a triumph of style over substance - you'd get the ability to play as 6 billion different teams, all with the authentic kits and player names, but the gameplay was just holding the sprint button and occasionally shooting. Just when you thought EA might be going in the right direction with last year's Fifa 2002 with a completely new engine, Konami released the fabulous Pro Evolution Soccer which blew it out of the water. They've carried on striding forward, and this latest offering is even better than before...but is it better than the rest? The answer is, ...  Read the complete review

Having played and owned every Fifa game from Fifa 95, for various different consoles it was inevitable that I would be picking up the new game. Throughout the years there have been plenty of Fifa games and many of them good games, but over the last few years it seems as if the standard has fallen as EA sports have tried the game play. However I am pleased to say that the standard of this year?s game is much higher. GRAPHICS ======= The graphics on Fifa 2003 are excellent; there are over 20 superb real stadiums in the game, I don?t think there has ever been this many in a Fifa game before but you get a much more realistic experience when playing in ...  Read the complete review

I wouldn't say so... Fifa 2003 came to us with a bit of a bang, there were a lot of people dying to get their hands on a copy of this, and I was lucky enough to be bought a copy by my girlfriend this Christmas, along with the Playstation 2 she bought me. I have been playing Fifa 2001 on the Playstation 1 for a while now. Boring our girlfriends to death me and my mate would by riveted in competition against one another playing with the teams that we liked and had got used too. Each team was unique, each team could do different things, one team would nearly always score on a nice little corner kick while the other wouldn’t have a hope in ...  Read the complete review

Fifa 2004 is probably out by the time you read this, so I guess this is a just a relieved little send off for me, and a note for those who were thinking of getting it when it goes on sale. Well, if you were going to buy it, DONT. If you dont mind seeing older squads, try finding a copy of 2002, or even 2001. There is one vey important reason for this. In the previous incarnations, they player you were controlling was highlited by a circle around his feet. An arrow would then point in the direction he would pass to if you pressed the pass button at that point. If it was green, it would be a good pass, yellow meant maybe, and red meant it would be ...  Read the complete review

Living with three brother, as I do, means that often we share things. Christmas '02 was no exception. Now that we are all quite grown up (18, 16, 15, 9) the need for small toys and the like has diminished. Now we had bigger fish to fry. Although we had a computer, a games console was the next step. It was thus that we bought a Nintendo Gamecube, and with it, Fifa 2003. It came with high expectations, having seen Giggsy, Carlos and Davids strutting their stuff on the adverts. There are various aspects of the game that I will analyse: 1) Graphics. These are fantastic. Having not played on a 'Cube before, I was very impressed, and the intro video and ...  Read the complete review