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2006 FIFA World Cup Review
User Submitted 2006 FIFA World Cup Reviews
Date: 2007-08-22
The Best Soccer game for PC
I bought this for 20 bucks at Walmart when there was a giveaway sale, and thought I was gonna play a mediocre game. I was totally wrong. The gameplay in this version is excellent, the players look very close to real and the plasticity in their faces has been done away with.
the commentary is excellent, and unlike some other soccer games is actually pretty engrossing, cos they dont say the same thing over and over again. Scoring a goal is not so easy in the professional mode and that should keep you motivated to get better, and when you do score a goal, its an awesome simulation of players doing their antics and waving to the crowd.
I won the World Cup finally in this game, and the celebrations are fun to watch. Definitely the best FIFA soccer game I've played.
Date: 2006-11-01
Great improvement
I find it a very good improvement on previous EA football games, although I was already quite happy with FIFA 2005. I never got to purchase the regular (non World Cup) FIFA 2006, although I played it a couple of times and see why many find it a disappointment and a step backwards from previous editions.
In WC06, the nicest innovation is Global Challenge, where you can pick among 30 or so scenarios of historical games, and see if you can match or improve on the performance of the team you are handling. In a few of these, you are given the game at minute 0 and challenged to meet a particular score; in others, you get the game pretty late, or at a critical penalty or free kick.
Also, unlike other WC games, this one lets you take a team from qualifiers, not only at the WC finals, and you have almost 100 national sides to choose. Additionally, you get many more players per team than previous editions (in a couple of countries, your roster is 40 names long).
It takes a while to get used to the new way of handling corners, penalties and, especially, free kicks; once you do, you find that the change has been for the better. It takes a while, also, to get used to a few new controls, and that the lag between pressing a shot and having the player actually shoot has been extended.
The unlockable features are neat, especially invisible walls (of course, very unrealistic, but fun) and perfect difficulty. The graphics are great; some player faces look odd, but the stadia are pretty good. The star-players are an interesting innovation. The commentary is better than it used to be, and if you pick Spanish, you get commentary in that language, not only menus. One big bug, however, is that Spanish commentary quite often makes mistakes on players names.
I miss that the game does not have the "career mode" for coaches. Also, you cannot simulate games...if you take a team through the qualifiers, you have to actually play ALL games. Since qualifying sometimes requires 15 games or so, this may be tedious. Also, while I am enjoying the game more than its predecessors, and my 10-year old is too, his younger brother (who is 5) seemed to have a much easier time with the previous editions, where the fewer control options made it simpler to manage.
All in all, a major improvement.
Date: 2006-07-24
VERY FUN AND CREATIVE
just like my title says, its fun and very creative and does not repeat the same over and over again like most other games out there.
Date: 2006-07-23
FIFA is catching up to Winning Eleven...
This is probably the best FIFA soccer game yet from Electronic Arts. Whereas in the past, Winning Eleven ran cicles around FIFA, the latter being plagued by arcadey gameplay and simple controls, this iteration of the venerable franchise actually has a good bit of substance.
The GOOD: Most World Cup games are really shallow, because once you play the world cup... that's it. This version allows you to play the whole WC qualifying tournament, which is great fun. You can take a tiny country, like the Faroe Islands, and try to qualify them for the WC. The graphics are pretty good, although in a soccer game, the fluidity is much more important that the actual pixel count. The game runs with no problems on my system, and the control is rather solid. FIFA now includes a more complex arsenal of moves and tactics, and is catching up to Konami's Winning Eleven (though the latter is still better). The music selection isn't bad for an EA game, and definitely conveys the international feeling of the game.
The BAD: The user interface and the menus are a complete and utter disaster. Trying to figure out where to go and what to click is brutal and counter-intuitive. When you want to save a game or select something, be prepared to go through a litany of popping screens and confirmation buttons, which sometimes respond to joystick presses, sometimes to mouse. Come on EA, is it that hard to design a clean interface? Also, I'd have loved to have this game include a full version of FIFA (with league play, etc); I know it's greedy, but then again, so is selling two soccer games within months of each other!
The UGLY: The player's faces. While generally realistic (Zidane, Ronaldinho, Riquelme, they're all here), the skin texture seems to make their faces look pockmarked and scarred, and generally pretty ugly. Small pet peeve, but hey...
Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by the replay value and the quality of this game. Recommended!
Date: 2006-07-12
BEYOND OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS GAME IS PROBALLY THE BEST SOCCCER GAME EVER MADE. ALTOUGH THE WORLD CUP IS OVER, IT WILL LIVE FOR EVER WITH THIS GAME.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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