FIFA Soccer 2003
FIFA Soccer 2003by Electronic Arts
Platform: PlayStation2
ESRB Rating: Everyone
ASIN: B00006ZCCW
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Features:
• Play with all the best clubs, players, and national teams
• Highlights the top 18 club teams with intense detail
• Use your feet and head to control the ball like never before
• Computer opponents adopt tactics based on real game situations
• Single and multiplayer options
Amazon.com Product Description: FIFA Soccer 2003 lets you play with all the best clubs, players, and national teams. The Club Championship highlights the top 18 club teams with intense detail, including team-specific stadiums and chants. You will have total ball control: use your feet and head to control the ball like never before. You will also be able to use free kicks and corner kicks to set up a shot or even score directly. Computer opponents will adopt tactics based on the real game situations.
Customer Reviews:
How could you don't like it?, December 5, 2002
Reviewer: fabio m. duran from orlando, florida United States
First, you have lo like soccer and more than that understand real soccer. If you do, this is the best game ever. It is always great to have the chance to play with international clubs and that Brazil is really the best team (5 times world champ) not like in orevious versions. Mpdern and great graphics. Realistic and you could really play by developing your own strategy and style. Absolutely Great!
Awesome Images, December 3, 2002
Reviewer: miltonwar from Miami, Fl USA
changes are always good. This game has a few changes about, images, sounds, and movements. There is no more edit teams section, but I don't care, the one thing I want is to play a good game of soccer, and this doesn't disapoint me.
PROS
THE NEW "R1 BUTTON" TO MAKE YOUR PLAYER SPRINT IS A GOOD IDEA AND IS MORE COMFORTABLE.
THE NEW SKILLS WITH THE RIGHT STICK ARE REALLY GOOD TO LEAVE YOUR OPPONENT IN THE FIELD.
THE ACCURACY ON THE SHORT PASSES ARE AWESOME.
THE NEW SPANISH PLAY BY PLAY IS GREAT FOR ALL OF US WHO SPEAK SPANISH.
THE NEW AND EXCELLENT FREEDOM TO MAKE FREE KICKS IS INCREDIBLE!! YOU CAN PUT THE BALL WHEREVER YOU WANT!!!, WELL IT DEPENDS YOUR POSITION AND PRACTICE
THE PENALTY SECTION IS GOOD, GOOD VIEW AND SO MUCH TENSE IN THE FIELD, YOU CAN FEEL THE HEART OF THE KICKER IN YOUR CONTROL....NICE TOUCH
BAD..
THERE ARE NO ALL THE TEAMS LIKE 2002, THERE IS NO NETHERLANDS, GUATEMALA, AND SO..
IS DIFFICULT TO MAKE A HEAD BALL, AND MORE DIFFICULT TO SCORE WITH A CORNER KICK.
IF YOU LIKE SOCCER, DON'T LET TIME GOES, AND BUY IT.
FIFA Soccer 2003 for PlayStation 2, November 29, 2002
Reviewer: SAVIO FERNANDES from New Jersey, USA
The most beautiful game in the world just got even more beautiful on the PS2. The new freestyle gameplay on the controller is an added bonus this time around. The season gets tougher as you progress in the League. Would totally recommend this to any soccer fan.
GREAT, November 25, 2002
Reviewer: A gamer from NY
This game was so good. I had to keep playing this game for hours. I couldn't take it out of the machine. The graphics are good and all the soccer leagues areincluded. You can play a season or a world cup. This is a great game for all you soccer fans. It is a great game for the holidays.
What's wrong with you people, November 24, 2002
Reviewer: A gamer from Cincinnati, OH United States
What's wrong with you people? This game is extremely lifelike...All those people saying it isnt apparently dont play soccer. Of course your shots will be less accurate with more power...I mean think about it, would you be able to park better in a tight space traveling at 5 mph or at 60 mph. The assortment of teams is outstanding and its just an all-around good game.
THE BEST!, November 22, 2002
Reviewer: paulisclark from Kenilworth, IL USA
If you are a sports fan and enjoy video games you must buy this game. I have played just about every sports game out there and especially every soccer game and this is by far the most fun and realistic game there is. The improvements over last years game and even 2002 World Cup are incredible. The dribbling, defense, AI, shooting, and everything else are all just about perfect. The new Club Championship is another cool feature. They went into great detail on the best 18 teams in the world and the faces of the players on those teams are spectacularly realistic. The only problem I have with the game is that the US National Team and the players are not as highly rated as they should be. Simply put, this is the best sports game out there. Every aspect of it is sensational. It may even be the best game out there period, even better then GTA:VC. BUY IT!
so bad...., November 21, 2002
Reviewer: sbreugnot from CULVER CITY, Ca United States
Why buy such a bad game when Pro Evolution from Konami is almost perfect ??
2 Steps Forward...1 Giant Leap Backward -- Terrible Gameplay, November 18, 2002
Reviewer: chrisflanagan from San Francisco, CA United States
No EA Sports series has had more ups and downs than FIFA. I believe it is due to the fact that a bunch of American developers are responsible for building a video game accompaniment to the world's most popular sport.
Last year's addition, FIFA 2002 (which I reviewed as 4 stars) was a great leap forward from the disasters of older FIFA titles. Not since FIFA 98 had EA got so much right. Next came the limited gameplay of FIFA 2002 World Cup (I did not review, but 4.5 stars is fair). The graphics were superb and the gameplay tweaked. The emotion of soccer had been captured by the amazing music and celebratory displays after big goals. EA made its best soccer game to date with FIFA 2002 World Cup. Now all they had to do was add in the licenses of all the major leagues and some of the great club tournaments and stadiums and they had the "perfect" game right? Wrong.
WHAT EA DID WITH THIS YEAR'S TITLE, FIFA 2003, IS DISGRACEFUL.
For starters they completely reconstructed the controls. So forget switching between older FIFA titles and the new one in your PS2 console to play with certain, historic clubs you enjoyed on last year's game. It's like trying to write right and left handed. Only a few will be able to pull this off. What's worse is the fact that they took away the intuitive passing of FIFA 2002 which allowed you to hit the X button with varied levels of time to control your pass strength and use of the R and L buttons to put curve on the ball. Are you kidding me? We're back to playing passes in straight lines, either on the ground or in the air, which trust me, is a quick way to get the ball stolen time and time again and easily frustrated at even the most basic level of game play. And the lack of ability to put touch or "power" on the ball means that its like watching the pong action of a steady moving blip found in FIFA 2001 and other poor soccer titles. Another big step back is the fact that free kicks no longer give you symbols to aim a corner or goal kick or free kick to one of your teammates. Now you just kill the ball blindly into space and hope for the best. Its terrible.
What EA claims to give you instead is "open passing" and "freestyle" control. The open passing means instead of "X" you can hit the Triangle. You can put varied amounts of power on this pass but no spin. Its essentially the FIFA 2002 passing option stripped of its creative ability to spin a pass into space. And with the new game the ball goes the direction you are facing. So if you are putting on moves to try to lose a defender, be prepared to see the ball go straight out of bound from time to time.
Sure you can try to reconstruct the control of FIFA 2002 by customizing your controller, but you can't get it exactly right. That's because there is no spin control and even if you make the triangle the primary passing button or "X" ; you will find yourself struggling to change players defensively, because the factory set X button is what you need to use. I quickly gave up and returned to factory set options and frustrating gameplay.
The "freestyle" mode is a nice idea and replaces some of the old R and L buttons that used to bring up "special" moves. You will quickly see that once again what is new is a joke. The "freestyle" moves are nowhere near as useful as the old special moves and while you may work your way around a defender, you will be shocked to see how many times its the same move over and over again. Furthermore, I have played NBA 2003 which introduced "freestyle" play and FIFA 2003 does nothing like what you can do on the basketball court. It just plays like, well, a marketing gimmick.
The only positive things I can say about FIFA 2003 is that it has all the major league licenses (including the Bundes Liga which had been absent in previous titles), some great graphics and stadiums, and a fantastic instant replay mode that gives you highlights during halftime and at the end of the game. The commentary is steady as it has always been when EA went with John Mottson (i.e., avoid FIFA 2001 and Julie Faoudy). I reluctantly give it 2 stars instead of one on these aspects alone.
But all things being said this game is a HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT THAT EA SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF. I recommend sticking with FIFA 2002 and going with FIFA 2002 World Cup if you care more about graphics than having all the world teams. I'm worried that just like the great EA soccer games of 1998 (FIFA 98 and World Cup 98 for PS1), soccer fans are going to have to wait four more years, until 2006, for EA to get the FIFA series right again.
A DAY OF DREAMS, November 16, 2002
Reviewer: A 10-year old gamer
I was eating a piece of chicken from KFC. I sat on my new game. It was a very good game. I miss my game. I give it a billion stars. EA SPORTS
could have been spectacular..., November 16, 2002
Reviewer: taikutsuna from laguna niguel, california United States
...if it wasn't for the shoddy A.I. i only wish that the computer would give the same advantages to my computer controlled players as it deems necessary for its players. too often i have watched my players while chasing after a pass just stop and let the other team take the ball...then proceed to run around in circles as the computer controlled player struts on by.
another flaw with the A.I is that no matter which piece setup i use or what strategy, my players shy away from the box(on either end) if i am making a break for the goal i have to fight off two to three computer players (that are already waiting in the box) just to get near the goal,yet on my defence end, my back defenders are nowhere near the box....so the computer just needs to get past one defender and they are prepped for a shot...You might be thinking to yourself "well why don't you just take control of your player" well the problem being is that when you take control of a player that is already running away from the ball you have to try and play catch up and it seems that all your players are the slowest people in the world....even at a full sprint i have yet to catch up to a computer controlled player...which probably explains why they can come from half a field away when i'm making a break for the box and tackle me.it is a shame because EA finally almost got soccer right... gone is the running up the side and crossing for a goal... now each pass means something, each interception counts every time you get near the box you get excited that you made it this far ......and then.... whats that no one to pass it to?, five defenders on me like white on rice!?, nowhere to go? and boom balls back on the opposite side of the pitch and all my players are running around like an A.Y.S.O peewee league.the game never strikes a balance between frustrating and fun it is about 30% fun and 70% frustrating.
by the way this refers to playing it on PRO level don't even bother with semi-pro or lower as you will undoubtedly win by minimum of 5-0 every time.
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