FIFA 2005 (Xbox)

As I bought this game for purely fun and going online to challenge the whole world to football matches, I feel this is one of the best FIFA games so far. The only one I thought was close to it within the whole FIFA games was FIFA 99, back in the PSone days. The game now has more official leaguesand team licences than any other football game. It makes Pro Evolution Soccer look like the kid who was picked last in a school football game during lunchtimes. To be exact, FIFA Football 2005 has 18 leagues, 38 national teams and over 11,000 real players. SO WHAT'S NEW WITH THIS GAME? The first thing ... more

The wind is chilling a bit, the leaves will start changing color soon, and EA Sports released another FIFA. The gaming boards will be flooded by fans of FIFA, who will defend their game to their deaths against the Winning Eleven/Pro Evolution Soccer series. But has FIFA finally stepped up their game enough to challenge PES's supremacy? In a word, no. But that doesn't mean that EA Sports didn't put out a solid effort. PRESENTATION - 9/10 Most EA titles have great presentation. There's a particular feel that they all have which is very familiar to long-time EA Sports fans such as myself. If you ... more

There are events every year that people around the world look forward to and some events that people dread. Events like Christmas are loved by kids, anniversaries dreaded by wives because most husbands forget and to football lovers there is the Fifa series. Ever since the 1990's Electronic Arts have updated this series every year and gamers are sick of it because there is a lack of differentiation between each installment. So now I will see whether EA have done anything at all to change the game to keep loyal fifa lovers happy. The first ever Fifa game I played was the 98 road to world cup ... more

Most of us in the gaming fraternity are familiar with EA Sports and their FIFA series. EA are giants of the gaming world, owning rights to a host of lucrative money spinning games franchises such as Harry Potter, James Bond and The Sims. FIFA is their long running football franchise established in 1995. The reason for lot’s of the success in the early days was down to the lack of real challengers in the football games market. In recent times however that has changed with the emergence of ‘Pro Evolution Soccer’. Widely considered to have the better gameplay, Pro Evolution has stolen most of ... more

This is a review I personally wrote and was published on a gaming website, and as the writer I wish this review to be published on Ciao UK. Every year, several publishers try to innovate and/or improve their games, by making sequels of their games. Some other publishers don't, and the consequences are not always the best. Except for EA Sports, of course. The Fifa series have always been a best-selling title, since the early years of the Nintendo 64, and even before than that. Why has FIFA always been selling so many copies, year after year? Because the game was great? Well, it probably was ... more