Oct 02 2006 FIFA 07 Review
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Summary: Unplayable and frustrating game...
Reviewed by val
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I had this game for about 24 hours and I guess it is more then I need to tell you about pros and cons.

Pros
Fifa 07 is generally speaking improved in comparison to Fifa 06. Previous game was arcade in terms of physics of players and the ball. New Fifa is less arcade as it feels much more like the real football. The ball moves more realistically, players run on the field more like humans, their height and weight seems to be important while fighting for the ball in the air.
Controls seem to be more complicated. We have new possibilities of passing and shooting the ball. The game gives us a bigger taste of strategy.
AI is improved, your partners and opponents are not as dumb as in the previous version. Goalkeeper is probably a bit more difficult to defeat.
Season mode is much more complicated and gives us more of a taste of football manager games. It is very nice.

Cons
I noticed one, a huge one. It was so annoying, that I thankfully returned the game, received money back and promised myself, that I will never buy Fifa series for PSP. I mean Fifa 07 is nice for PC, PS2 but what they did for our PSP's is just frustrating.

Forget about 30 fps!!!! I mean, sure, you can have it if you zoom the camera max, so that you see hardly 4-5 players on the field. If you like to see the whole situation on the field as I do, you will probably zoom out to the max and there you have it... Over 15 players on the screen and there it goes... 20fps...15 fps.... Oh believe me, it is no problem on the ps2 but on our PSP it looks horrible.
Your team's players respond to button and analogue control commands sometimes after 1-2 seconds... You want to pass NOW so you press "x" button now but... It will happen not now, not in 0.25 second but after 2 seconds...

If you add multiplayer with standard, low lags, then you have a pure strategy game... Imagine... predict what will happen in three seconds... And you have to make your decisions now... but you will see the result not earlier then after those 3 seconds...

It is absolutely no fun for me. I mean sure, graphics looks nicer but so what... I think EA forgot about something like "testing", "optimization" and eventually "quality".

One small con of this game makes a huge difference for me and I repeat, it is my highly subjective opinion, but I am really disappointed with this game and I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT...

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11/02/06 30 Chance | | Florida USA | XBC: Chance | KAI: Chance | SOCOM: Chance2
Thanks for taking the time to write/warn us. I'd still like to try it for $5.
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