TIF 2004: This is Football (PS2)

One of my favourite football games, I much prefer this game to the more popular ones like FIFA and Pro Evoulation Soccer as the game play is a lot better and a lot easier to control the players. The graphics are not as good as some of it rivals, it might not suit the hardcore football gamers but for the average gamer it is probably the best as the controls are a lot easier and the gameplay is much more fun and improvement on previous games and the shooting system has been seriously improved. There is plenty of leagues (over 20), teams (over 800) and players (over 17000) to choose from so plenty of variety to choose from. You can buy and sell players ...  Read the complete review

To write this review I did have to cast my mind back a couple of years to the days before the football games market was not totally dominated by the annual release of the Pro Evolution Soccer and FIFA games and catually there was a pretty good "third way" (to borrow an American political term) option. TIF 2004 was a lot of fun to play and had some really neat features on it. You could argue that it possesses one function which makes it the most realistic of football games on the market ever given the state of the beautiful game these days. That is the ability to make your player dive in the attempt to win a penalty or free kick so they must be the ...  Read the complete review