FIFA Street (Xbox)

While many people seem to be under the impression that FIFA Street is the first attempt to bring the World’s favourite sport to the streets in terms of videogames, this really couldn’t be further from the case, with turkeys like Kamara’s Street Soccer and Puma Street Soccer releasing and bombing during the 32-Bit days, and Acclaim unleashing the thoroughly despicable Urban Freestyle Soccer on the Xbox and PS2 long before EA took to the streets, however what sets FIFA Street apart is that it is the first such game to actually have a license for player names and so on, and to emerge from a respected developer. EA Sports' FIFA series is one of the 'big two' in terms of ...

Sometimes you play a game and you just have to wonder why game designers feel the need to keep on churning out adaptations of other games which are not really any improvement on what has gone before. To be honest the FIFA franchise of football games has been pretty good so it is disappointing to report that FIFA Street left me cold as a gaming experience. This version sees you playing a series of four a side games in a varied number of street locations which are heavy on the prevalence of signs of urban decay and lots of graffiti covered walls. On the plus side the fact that there is no out of play areas means that the action is ...