Official FIFA 06 Thread

Well I just rented FIFA 06 last night and I must say I'm pretty suprised. It's a huuuge step up from FIFA 2005 if you ask me. If you pay close attention you can tell the graphics are much better and the gameplay is a little better.

Likes:

• Manager Mode: Control your team with more of a financial control on your team (Sponsors etc.)
• International Selections: A huge list of players that you could select for International games and tournaments instead of just 5 or 6 reserves.
• Stadiums: A much bigger list of stadiums
• Menu: The menu is awesome if you ask me.. the big screen shows highlights of the classic flashback commentary. Also has a retro section where you can see where EA Sports started with the FIFA series.
• Highlights: You can view the best highlights from the recent season in the Premiership, Serie A, Bundesliga and more.
• Classic Players and Bio's: Play classic teams to unlock their bio's
• Creation Zone: Create a player option is a GIANT step up from what it was last year.. you can even edit your players celebrations.
• Gameplay: Gameplay is a little better than 2005 but still needs some work. Certain parts have improved such as control of the ball and passing.
• Penalty Shootout: I've noticed the kicks are much more realistic now and the goalies have better animations when saving a ball or getting scored on.

Dislikes:

• Fast breaks: Player on a fast break sometimes completely stops to shoot the ball.
• Difficulty: Seems the higher the difficulty the faster the gameplay is for some reason.
• Running: Sometimes the players run and the animation is great and then sometimes you notice the players are running like they got a bamboo stick up their ass.
• International Teams: Still not enough International Teams in the FIFA series. Personally I'd like to play with Iran, Japan, South Korea.. Jamaica and many other teams.

I see people saying PES5 is awesome and WE8 is much better. But in my opinion I'll continue with the FIFA series until the PES series has better licensing and authenticity. That's the biggest thing to me when it comes to sports games.

All in all I gave 2005 a 7.5/10 and I'll give FIFA 06 a 9/10.

Now I'm going back to buy it

You lazy bastard, you can download a patch for PES, and voila, you got yourself authenticity.

You lazy bastard, you can download a patch for PES, and voila, you got yourself authenticity.

I have an xbox man.. I dont mean PC

Then get one for PC, it rocks!

Maybe ill go and pick up the game. I already have 3 of EA Sports Games ( Madden, NBA & Tiger Woods )

Lol @ picking FIFA because it has all the licensing that's just lame

the only reason fifa is better this year is cuz they copied stuff from PES. I still 'bought' (blatantly lying) FIFA but i think PES is better.

Lol @ picking FIFA because it has all the licensing that's just lame

Well it wasnt the only reason lol.. I have every FIFA series since 94.. yes back in the Sega days

Besides we only have Winning Eleven 8 here..

You can get these things for Xbox where you hook it up to the PC and download information onto it. At PESfan.com they have all the updated kits/stadiums/team names/player names for PES5 that you can download for Xbox.

Dude, i have to upgrade my video games...

for soccer i have: Super Soccer (SNES) and Fifa 2004 (PC)
I'm "getting" PES5 and Fifa06
NFL i have: NFL 2k3
im "getting" Madden NFL 06
that's about it i suppose oh and Civilization 4

EDIT: Oh yeah um, good review legend

Its kinda like buying nba live for the excellent basketball sim and dynasty.....

I played the demo before. It's ok...the game level is around PES 2 or 3 level. I mean...they basically just copy previous iterations of PES/Winning Eleven or something and add some meaningless gimmick like total ball control or whatever. FIFA is still behind Winning Eleven in realism and I see no hope of them catching up. I like their franchise mode but FIFA is too unrealistic for their franchise mode to make up for it.

Oh yea, FIFA doesn't have South Korea. Nuff said! Heck, I didn't even need the previous paragraph!