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Mixed or average reviews- based on 23 Ratings

  • Summary: The World of Soccer: Play with all the best clubs, players and national teams. Powerhouse Detail: The Club Championship highlights the top 18 club teams with intense detail, including team-specific stadiums and chants. Total Ball Control: Use your feet and head to control the ball like never before. New Set Pieces: Use free kicks and corner kicks to set up a shot or even score directly. Game-changing AI: Computer opponents will adopt tactics based on the real game situations. [EA Games] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. The most realistic and technically advanced soccer game to date. It's almost too real. [Dec 2002, p.91]
  2. The kind of sports game that most aspire to be but few realize. The game’s dynamic lighting and game physics are superb. The animation is exceptional and the play is fluid.
  3. The introduction of more intuitive controls and the emphasis on fancy dribbling and short passes might bring some of that Latin American flare to the game that was definitely absent from FIFA 2002.
  4. Playing against another person is far more satisfying as the level of error and ingenuity creeps into the game.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Negative: 2 out of 9
  1. KarlD.
    9
    Finally gameplay is something real in the FIFA series, and the pace in this year's game is awesome, the freestyle control of players is a brilliant idea and it makes the gameplay superb to play. Of course the graphics of everything in the game is just great, with some superb touches in replays. The soundtrack is also very good this year. My only complaint about this year's game is that it is very difficult to make headers in every occation, I hope this will be fixed in the 2004 game. Well after all, there is no Pro Evolution Soccer 2 on the PC (damn!), so stick to the FIFA series on your PC and you wont go wrong this year. Expand
  2. Shortman
    9
    This is awesome cept for the headers and sometimes the passing is a bit weird but the free kicks are awesome and it is now more realistic.
  3. This is one of the best football games i have ever played, and i have played a lot of football games. The thing that really separated this game from any other football game (TIF, PES etc.) is the fact that this really had atmosphere, and the graphics were not even matched until FIFA first appeared on the xbox 360, 4 years later. Quite simply one of the most classic games to have graced the PS2. Also, this game has such a great degree of control over the players, the user can truly feel the players' movements. Many people have criticised the free kick system in the past, and true, you can score from the half-way line every time, but still, the system gave the player far better control over free kicks than ANY football game since. If there were to be any criticisms of this game, they would be that the player movement is somewhat clunky, and that the amount teams included in the game is quite low. These criticisms however are all against games on the market today, a full 8 years on, with FIFA 11 being the main game for comparison here. To conclude then, a clear classic, and if i was judging this game in 2003, then it would be a 9 or 9.5, but as it is, today, it will have to settle for an 8. A great game though. Expand
  4. Alex
    7
    At last, a FIFA game with quality. If you have a PC buy it, if you have a ps2 look for PES or PES2 instead.

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