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Craptastic game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The controls in this game suck. The AI acts in a premeditative manner in order to 'restore' the balance -- i.e., a team (played by CPU) perceived to be superior, but losing by several goals will equalize in the last few minutes, even if that can only be obtained by disabling and overriding user commands. It is obvious, as the gameplay slows down discernibly and the graphics turn choppy. This takes away all the pleasure from the game.

The general breakdown of commands happens throughout the game, of course. There are few options and the 'off the ball' moves do not work consistently, even if you follow the instructions.
This game is an insult to game designers and gamers alike. I would say skip this game, unless it is available for free and you only care about graphics.

Awesome Football

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a great football game in every way possible. It out does all the other Fifa's put together. First Graphics are excellent superb lighting super realistic facial ngarphics kits and stadiums are authentic. Two ameplay much more realistic and energetic no more half way line goals like Fifa 2002 and no more magical bicycle kicks the game bring you down to earth after being an immortal. Players actually get injured for months instead of days.The New carrer mode is wonderful with new transfer market and more control then other footballing games. The practice mode is really well shaped and fun. Commentating well its good but they say pretty much the same thing each match. The computer responds to situations much more realisticly which makes the game interesting. Finally you actually get to jostle for space which is wonderful push your opponents down too the ground. Corner kicks are much more squeeze your way passed defenders and push them a little to the side to get a good chance to score. Free Kicks are pretty much the same. All in all tyhe is the best footballing game ever and should be bought before any other football game.

Greatest

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've bought and played many soccer games and this is the best. I have bought most of the other Fifa soccer games but this outdoes them all. The buying and seling of players is a real winner It is a great game for soccer lovers like me.

not real soccer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I dont like fifa very much because isn`t like a real soccer game, i like more winning eleven 7 or winning eleven 8 (japane version) winning eleven is best than fifa i alot of aspects expept in graphics

What good are bells/whistles when the gameplay stinks?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've purchased a good number of soccer titles in the past, including more than one in the EA Sports FIFA family on multiple gaming systems. This is by far their most disappointing effort.

EA Sports, usually among the leaders in inovations, options, playablility, and overall enjoyment, seem to have put all their efforts into gaming extras (ie: Spanish language, on-line playability, official licensing, nice graphics), largely at the expense of fun. The game is b-o-r-i-n-g. The pace feels significantly slower than FIFA of several generations ago. The cut-scene animations look great, but the gameplay graphics are quite poor by 2004 standards. Each player looks to be about a centimeter tall on my 27" TV screen, but yet, the field of view is limited - long passes are extremely difficult, as are crosses from the corner.

Due to an almost complete lack of an in-game tutorial, the learning curve is very steep. You won't be having fun in the first hour of play. Even on the "Amateur" difficulty setting, it was difficult to move the ball smoothly, and it began to feel like work to learn. I don't believe I was able to intentionally score a header goal (much less anything fancier) after several hours of hard labor.

Even the career modes seem more difficult to navigate. The overwhelming onslaught of information (combined with - again - almost no tutorial) makes for a gaming experience that's more work than entertainment.

Take my advice: rent before you buy. FIFA 2004, while in overall appearance resembles the older FIFAs we've come to know and love, seems to have missed the mark that all games should be shooting for -- fun.

Only good for playing with a friend.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: July 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I must say, FIFA 2004 is THE most disappointing game of the FIFA series I've played thus far.

Granted, the graphics and gameplay have seen great improvement, but what I cannot comprehend is why FIFA 2004 appears to be going back in time. I mean, FIFA 2003 had a "create a team" option which is ominously missing in this "new and improved" game. Further, THERE ARE NO INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION. For Pete's sake, Super Nintendo's FIFA '98 even had the CONCACAF World Cup Qualification 'tournaments'. FIFA 2004 has none; not even a World Cup. Also, the developers were absolutely obsessed with club teams; they added dozens of teams from Austria and Korea yet they only put in less than 20 international teams.

To make things worse, they managed to leave out international teams like Japan, Holland, Colombia, Romania, Ireland, Thailand, Iran, and Bulgaria. At this rate, they'll probably forget to add Uruguay and Belgium for FIFA 2005.

Also, the refereeing is highly unpredictable. In FIFA 2002, you could actually choose the referee's strictness.

The game could also use more stats and game options. Whats odd is that previous versions of FIFA have actually had more options to tweek with. FIFA 2004 is pretty dry.

In short, buy this game only if you want a graphics update and don't mind not being able to play international tournaments.

Fifa '04 Sucks!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game sucks big time and here are the reasons: Users cannot control the pace of the game at different levels.
No classic teams. No plethora of skill moves. Match stats are poor, so are the postgame highlights. All this was in fifa'03 and it was taken away. So, fifa'04 is NOT an improvement on the game. This has resulted in the game having no flair. Imagine Zidane executing the same skill move everytime he dribbles the ball. Sucks doesn't it. You cannot execute the 'stepover nutmeg' in '04, no spin moves in '04, no Pele, no Maradona, no Beckenbauer, no Cruyff. The only good features are 'off the ball' control and set plays that's it. I am in the market for a complete game not this half#ss stuff. It is clear to me that the designers/producers know nothing about soccer and what soccer fans value. Fifa'04 had an opportunity to cement itself as the most complete soccer game, but they whiffed on the chance in the 6yd box facing an empty net. Simply put, for all the novices out there there is NO FUN in '04 relative to '03

The only great feature of this game is the online mode

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is really fun and never gets boring but why didn't EA add the Create a Team mode or produce classic teams from the 60s to the current, with players like Pele, Marradona and the old Ronaldo with an average of 98. Well i guess EA creates the game for themselves rather that listening to us players, ah well, the main thing is that this game is really fun at online mode but the normal matches are getting a bit boring, even the WorldClass mode is no match for me.
7.5/10.

Not for the uninitiated

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is B-O-R-I-N-G. I love soccer and I couldn't wait to buy it but it's just so slow! I've had the game for 6 months and every once in a while I take it out to play a game and see if maybe I'm missing something but I end up turning it off after a few minutes.

I've heard a lot of gripe about certain teams that are missing and if I may also add to it -- there are no Latin American or Caribbean teams! Where is Mexico? Costa Rica? Where is Jamaica for heaven's sake?

I bought this game for two reasons -- because I love soccer and because you can switch the commentary to Spanish. I'm not a gamer, just a weekend/every once in a while non-expert who enjoys PS2 as a break in monotony. You might like this game if you are really into video games and understand their limitations. I'm a beginner so I was expecting so much more. I don't know how to choose teams correctly and the instructions were unclear to me. You get an areal view of the game while the ball is in play and that makes the players so small to me that it takes away from the excitement.

That said, I'm going to continue to play it in hopes that I might learn to like it. Please try to rent this title before you buy it, I regret having spent over (...) for a game I may never fully comprehend.

Fifa 2003 was more of an improvement than Fifa 2004

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

EA Sports completely ruined the Fifa series, apart from adding the new online gaming choice, it still doesn't change the fact that EA bringing out this shameful follow up to the previous greats can be congratulated. Overall, fifa 2004 has lost a total of 4.5 points from 10, but Fifa 2003 has lost just 1 point from 10.

Graphics: 10

Sound: 9

Gameplay: 3.5

Rosters: 5

Improvment: 4

Overall: 6.5

So once again, this was a terrible comeback from EA. It was the worst in the Fifa series, the championship throphys are fake, there are no liscenced real tournaments, the career mode doesn't even give you a point after flawless playing and the rosters are not up to date and most of the top names from last years greatest Fifa edition are missing.

This game sucked, so i recommend that you get Fifa 2003 instead of 2004.

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