FIFA 06 Soccer (PS2) > Reviews > The Best Fifa So Far

Author's product rating:   

Playability & Enjoyment	Excellent - very playable game
Addictiveness	Compulsive
Graphics	Good
Difficulty & Complexity	Quite a simple game not too complicated
Value for money	Good value

Advantages:	Realsitic Gameplay, Graphics
Disadvantages:	World Class is too easy for once

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Most years football game critics give the title of champion to pro evo claiming it's more realistic despite the poor graphics. Most years i would agree but not this year. For me the gameplay has reached a new level and Fifa has finally beaten Pro Evo in all aspects.

As always the graphics are smooth and high quality and the range of teams available has expanded again.

There are also a lot of new features of Fifa that make it a must.

There are new sounds at the main menu that replay special footballing events like Rooney's first goal and Beckham's halfway line strike. There also some classics like Pele and other footballing legends.

In this version you can also relieve the old days and play on the first ever football game in the retro section of the game. In this section the top 10 goals of all time (according to Fifa) can be viewed.

Players can now be edited or even new ones added and transfers can take place. This ensures the game does not go out of date as soon as 2007 comes around.

As always the career menu is spectacular and this year you ca change clubs after every season and the aim is to gian as many levels as possible by winning various prestigous prizes.

Another feature that is argueabley good or bad is that in the career menu teams rated more than 4 star can not be selected until unlocked. This means players cannot start as Arsenal or Man Utd but have to build up their points and buy them.

One problem is that World Class becomes too easy too fast and when legendary is unlocked from the buying menu it doesn't seem to work or at least i haven't been able to figure it out.

So altogether if you're very good at football games and have to be challenged this may not be the right game but for the normal 'pleasure' gamers this is perfect.