These look very rough compared to the rest of the game and it’s a good job this game isn’t relying on an immersive story as these cut scenes certainly wouldn’t convince. The graphical quality unfortunately doesn’t carry through to the cut scenes you will see in the career mode. The create-a-player option, mainly used in the career mode, is deep and it is possible to get a good likeness of most people if you spend a bit of time tweaking it. There are a nice, varied selection of pitches to play on, all set in different areas, with a decent mixture of surfaces and night/day action. The stiff player models and odd ball physics of the first game have been addressed, and everything moves at a good frame rate. EA have always been able to produce a looker of a game, and while this isn’t up there with the best of their efforts, it’s an attractive looking game. Let’s see if it improves on things and, more importantly, if this is worth your hard earned cash. However, EA have clearly not given up on the franchise and have recently brought us this, the inventively titled FIFA Street 2. FIFA Street was an attempt to combine the two and give some urban action to the beautiful game. However, they have always lagged behind in the football (read soccer) sim market, with the various incarnations of FIFA playing second fiddle to Konami’s Pro Evolution series. Games like SSX and NBA Street brought me hours of fun. They have brought us some excellent games over the years, especially under their extreme sports mantle, EA Sports Big. Despite the general propensity for EA-bashing on forums around the internet, I actually quite like them.
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