Review By: jenksy | Posted: 14/10/2007
Final Word:
Fifa 08 is a worthy successor to 07 and it builds on what was developed there, the new game modes add to an already impressive roster of options and the graphical quality are second to none. Best played with friends for extra glory!
So stepping away from the modes and the style the game as a whole is a very well crafted one, graphically its fantastic, the players movement, animations, style are all fantastic! The game looks beautiful, the real scale of playing at Wembley, The San Siro, Emirates or Old Trafford is bought to you perfectly, this really is a good looking game I can't stress that enough!
The Audio is brilliant too, Fifa has always been good with its commentary but this steps it up a notch, banter between Andy Gray and Martin Tyler is fantastic, they'll discuss the style of a specific team or the history between two rivals, overall the range of the audio that you'll hear during the game is wide and its very well executed!
Overall its fair to say EA are heading down an experimental road with Fifa, they're trying to distance themselves from Pro Evo and head in a different direction, its a risky business as you've got two very distinct fanbases between the two games and its easy to take a big risk and lose that, I’ve swapped between the two franchises over the years depending on who's version
was better that year.
Which brings me to another point I want to make, with games like Fifa, Tiger woods, Madden, its difficult sometimes to justify making us pay £40-£50 a year for basically what is an updated squad list and strips, with the boom of Xbox live its also difficult to swallow when we could just download an update every season to the rosters to make these changes, EA have put a fair few new additions into 08 to make it worth purchasing, however I worry what they'll have to put into 09 to make it worth justifying another £40.
I do worry that sometimes the old adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" doesn't apply when computer games are being made. The danger is that something that is fantastic can be scrapped to make way for the new "all singing not quite as good, looks mostly the same but we're still gonna charge you money for it" game.
This year Fifa 08 is well worth a look, and it'll keep many of us happy for a long long time, but I’m wary of what will happen next year to justify the yearly release of an expensive game when maybe it won't be necessary.
The Audio is brilliant too, Fifa has always been good with its commentary but this steps it up a notch, banter between Andy Gray and Martin Tyler is fantastic, they'll discuss the style of a specific team or the history between two rivals, overall the range of the audio that you'll hear during the game is wide and its very well executed!
Overall its fair to say EA are heading down an experimental road with Fifa, they're trying to distance themselves from Pro Evo and head in a different direction, its a risky business as you've got two very distinct fanbases between the two games and its easy to take a big risk and lose that, I’ve swapped between the two franchises over the years depending on who's version
was better that year.
Which brings me to another point I want to make, with games like Fifa, Tiger woods, Madden, its difficult sometimes to justify making us pay £40-£50 a year for basically what is an updated squad list and strips, with the boom of Xbox live its also difficult to swallow when we could just download an update every season to the rosters to make these changes, EA have put a fair few new additions into 08 to make it worth purchasing, however I worry what they'll have to put into 09 to make it worth justifying another £40.
This year Fifa 08 is well worth a look, and it'll keep many of us happy for a long long time, but I’m wary of what will happen next year to justify the yearly release of an expensive game when maybe it won't be necessary.
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