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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
Buy New: £14.99
You Save: £15.00 (50%)
New (16) Used (8) from £12.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 73
Platform: Playstation2
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 0067403
EAN: 5030930067403
ASIN: B001D26I46
Release Date: October 3, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Utter garbage October 14, 2008
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
After seeing last years Fifa get high scores in reviews and this one also, i decided to go for it, despite being a Pro Evo only game for the past 8 years. Immediately i was dismayed with the game. Comparing it last years Pro Evo was a complete joke. At the end of the day, Fifa might have the real kits and team names, but when it plays like this..you ain't gonna wanna play it for long. Graphically this game is complete sham, even by the Ps2 standards, it looks rubbish. The stats for players are far more simplified than Pro Evos and the game is just generally aimed at people who dont care about a games key details and factors which make it good or not. The camera angles are poor, the comentary is very repetitive and starts repeating itself within the first few minutes and the general sluggish gameplay is just no-where near the same quality of Pro Evolution! Wether it is like this on the Ps3 or 360 i dont know. I have both those consoles but being price concious i got the Ps2 version lol and im glad i did cus i think i saved myself some cash!
Disappointing October 13, 2008
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
Honestly I am amazed by how poor this game is; to be fair I have been a Pro Evo fan for the last few years but I had read a lot of reviews saying that Fifa was catching up and so thought I would buy both this year, in order to enjoy the extra teams and options Fifa offers.
But I really am shocked by how poor it is compared to Pro Evo - the graphics are always lauded but I thought it looked old fashioned, the camera angles are poor, the player movement is strange, and the player attributes are all simplified compared to Pro Evo, where you really feel the players are unique in terms of their ability.
But most importantly, the gameplay is below par - it is far less smooth and you feel that you have far less freedom to make the plays you want compared to Pro Evo. It has a new option for beginners where you can use only 2 buttons to play the game, but it isn't like the normal controls are that complicated, they are just not intuitive or user friendly enough. If Pro Evo never existed then I guess this would be OK as a game, but it does, so this sucks.
If you are a Pro Evo fan and considering buying this game too, don't waste your money. Pro Evo is out soon! It may not have the teams etc but if it really bothers you then use the edit mode and change things - the gameplay is what really matters, and to be honest the last 5 Pro Evo games are all more fun than this most recent fifa
 Another year of PS2 for me October 12, 2008
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Fifa football (09, 08, 07 - whatever) is the only Playstation game I play (with the addition of the Euro Championship and World Cup footy games) so whether Fifa 09 was any good on PS2 was pretty critical for me.
I'm pleased to say, I can have another year with my old console and my old, little, wireless Joytech controllers. The new incarnation is champion.
On the positive side - it's great to have players updated (though Theo Walcott is not a 78 Overall - much, much better) and the budgets go up when you get promoted. (I should point out, I only play Manager Mode.) The graphics - even on my relic of a console - are better and if you shoot from outside the box sometimes - not often but sometimes - it actually goes in, which is one up on Fifa 08.)
Playing in the German League is a lot better because the completely-accurate-but-utterly-messes-up-your-pre-season playing of the league cup in August has been shelved, allowing you to select Schalke and Werder Bremen without trepidation. Having the play-offs in for the Championship and below is great (not that I need them - Championship winner with Norwich!!).
On the down side, it's the same old Clive Tyldesley/Andy Gray commentary. I don't know if the big boys version - ie PS3 - has the same old toot from these old stagers. As far as I can make out, there are no - repeat no - new players getting a name check. As a Spurs fan (and thank goodness we've lot the Martin-Jol's-Blue-and-White-army chant - plain awful), I was a bit disappointed that our current crop of 'stars' - Modric, Pavlyuchencko - don't get a name check. That - and the fact it hurts to play sa Spurs in the current climate - has had me playing as other teams which, I guess, has been quite liberating.
All in all, this is 24 quid well spent. It's not perfect; there are glitches. (When I was playing as Hearts, every week I was given the sponsorship bonus of doing an unbeaten season, which certainly helped the Champions League surge.) However for cheap and cheerful fun, this beats watching the stock markets fall.
who cares about online play!!!! October 9, 2008
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am a PS3 lover but buy it on lthe ps2 because its cheaper and more fun with be a pro
No online play - what the...?! October 6, 2008
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
I had high expectations of the game, having heard from a number of reviews that it would overtake PES this year (in fact, I think it did that with FIFA 08). I booted it up and played a few games to get used to the new features. It plays great, is much more realistic, and was looking good. So I thought I would get online and see if anyone else was on it already. No online play is a joke. I might play against friends occasionally, but it is all about the online play for me so I'll have to go back to FIFA 08. EA are fools!
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