Fifa Soccer 2008

By Sandor Hugert

 

I got this game for Playstation 3 last week, and it’s amazingly fun.  Ea Sports basically made everything about the game better this year.  They made the graphics better, the game play, and even the online game play.  They updated the rosters correctly, which is always a plus in a soccer game.  Some of the stadiums in the game are actually officially licensed so they look like just how they would in real life.  The stats of the players in the game are very well done.  I play the manager mode all the time, and it’s a lot of fun to use the skill points, which Ea did in last year’s game as well, on players to make their stats grow.  There is hardly any lag when you play online which is awesome because I played with people from Germany and France and there wasn’t any lag.  The main thing that Ea worked on this year was to make the game play more realistic which they achieved perfectly as it’s not as easy to score goals any more as in recent Fifa games.  The AI works much smarter against you, which is good to see.  You really have to outplay the AI to score any goals at all which many people complain about, but personally I find the game to be much more enjoyable this way.  They added another difficulty to the game so instead of World Class being the hardest now you can play on Legendary.  These Fifa games are probably some of my favorites, but this year Ea really outdid themselves from past years.

 

Score:  9 out of 10