UEFA Euro 2008 (Xbox 360)

Every four years, a momentus occasion occurs. Europe's top footballing nations collide in a tournament to decide who are the kings of the world's most popular sport. Electronic Arts give us gamers the opportunity to guide our home nation to glory and take the crown of Europe's elite, even if our real-life counterparts haven't got a hope in hell (England I'm looking at you!) So, can EA revel in the glory of producing the best Football game to date, or will they get knocked out at the qualifying stages? Electronic Arts could have easily released their famous FIFA 08 Football title with the addition of National teams and passed it off as a new game; its been done ...  Read the complete review

There are several things that go hand in hand with a major International football tournament - massive upswings in sales of replica football shirts, people developing incredible pride in their continental 'roots' and women actually being interested in football. Another more recent addition to this list of obligatory developments is a tournament tie-in videogame, with the honours going to EA, makers of the FIFA games series since the 1998 World Cup. Due to a lack of interest in the tournament from the media thanks to the lack of Engl...Home Nations involvemen, Euro 2008 was snuck out fairly quietly a month or so back. No fancy front cover, no special edition, bog standard ...  Read the complete review