FIFA 09 (Xbox 360)

Any one will tell your that when it comes to football games your either a Pro Evolution Soccer player or your a Fifa player. You cant be both as it just does not work like that. For years the battle has been ongoing between Electronic Arts and Konami for who could produce the best football game each year. For many years it seemed like Konami had the upper hand as their game was more playable and user friendly compared to the Fifa titles. I have been a loyal Pro Evolution fan myself over the years but just like everything else in life things change and so do games. After being a bit disappointed in last years Pro Evolution, I constantly had my ...  Read the complete review

I used to scoff at Fifa. Smug and superior, I dismissed it as a mere scuff on Pro Evolution Soccer's shinpad; a soulless exercise in licence-whoring drudgery with nothing to distinguish between each release. Frustratingly my mates all loved it - pouring over close-up preview screenshots of a faithfully horrific looking Wayne Rooney every September like this was the key constituent of a great footballing simulation experience. "What about the gameplay?" I'd protest in vain. "What about the licences?" they'd retort. Yet over the last couple of years, the yawning chasm between the respective A-list football titles has been closing. Until Fifa ...  Read the complete review

FIFA games have become the corner-stone of Football (or Soccer) games in the World, right now. With only this and Pro Evolution Soccer on the market as current Generation games, there is an element of competition between the two, as they battle for supremacy in the market. And officially, FIFA wins year in, year out with sales figures constantly improving year on year. In 2006, with the launch of the new Generation of Consoles, EA Sports Canada decided it was time to change everything to take advantage of the High Definition graphics and further advanced CPU power offered up. And with the engines birth came problems. And even though it was an arguable change ...  Read the complete review

With Fifa 10 about to come out in the next few weeks i am without a doubt gonna miss this game, the online feature is brilliant and very entertaining i think i have played it every week since it has came out. The only downside of the game is everyone being Man United or Barcelona in the online feature, fair enough there is obviously gonna be people that support them teams but the majority are not. Every 50-50 and every decision seems to go their way and Ronaldo and Messi are just stupidly good. Hopefully in the next version they will rectify the running as it only seems to go in 4 directions. I love the way they have added celebrations ...  Read the complete review

As nearly every reviewer on this site will tell you, when it comes to football video gaming experiences you are either a fifa fan or a PES fan. I fall into the first catogery. I grew up playing Fifa on the megadrive back before it had full licences and player names where meer jokes of what peoples names where, so every year on the day fifa comes out I buy it, and pray that I can defend it in front of my PES worshipping mates. This year's installment (Fifa 09 not 10 which is technically this years installment) made my task very simple indeed. The first thing you notice about Fifa is that it is visually very well done, you can tell who players are ...  Read the complete review