I am a die hard Pro fan, but must admit this actually is a decent game. Good game in fact, only spoiled by broken AI and a funeral pace to the matches. Online features are excellent, especially the ten vs ten. But honestly that wares thin unless you have good players on your team, and even then the game descends into either chaos or a bore-fest. But the gameplay has improved a lot over fifa 08, and players seem a little more responsive. But ultimately the game just doesn't move fluidly enough to really get excited. Good game but still not an Evo killer, not yet anyway.… Expand

If you want to "Play" a game, buy something else. If you want to dump $60 on something you get to watch EACanada "Producers" play a game for you, and try to guess which amazingly unintuitive seriese of buttons you need to press .7 seconds BEFORE the sim plays out on screen, then spred-teh-cheekz-for-EA-marketing-love and be prepared to strap=on your FanBoyz feedbag. I'd prefer to actually BE incontrol of my 'on screen avatar' when i play a video game.… Expand

Fifa 09 is a good game, but too linear. By now we should be able to run freely around the pitch, but no, still only eight diretions to move in, witch makes the game quite boring and repetitive. The be a pro feature this year lets you play four seasons, witch is a good thing, but you don't get too see your progress in the league or no matter how bad you play you're always on the first team. Fifa 09 is fun, but too old school for me.… Expand

Only thing preventing this from getting a 10 is the fact that 10 is perfectionand theres a couple of tiny flaws ad ways it could be improved slightly. amazing though. Not played PES but the last 2 before this year I've found it inferior, and when FIFA is this good this time out on the pitch I do;t see it changing.

In some ways FIFA is still not as intuitive as PES but once you learn to play the game it is far deeper. The graphics are excellent, the gameplay challenging, the online modes fantastic. I was a confirmed PES fan but I have crossed to the dark side as FIFA is the best footy game for years and PES is once again a pale shadow of former glories.

Some really cool enhancements in this years version, no doubt about it. However,i think the offensive side of the game has taken a step backwards. Shooting, crossing and heading the ball is now so ludicrously difficult that it ends up being really frustrating experience. I've noticed that shooting also suffers from a lack of natural curl when you strike the ball, particularly when you are 1 on 1 with the keeper making for some ridiculous misses in front of goal. The power bar is also too sensitive making it far too easy to blaze shots over the bar even when you are in the penalty box. Passing to a free man within the box is also really sluggish usually not reaching your team mate despite him being only a few yards away. Really annoying. It looks great though and the addition of new generic stadiums is a nice touch.… Expand

This is the first FIFA I have preferred over PES.. everything seems so slick in this release - the graphics and design are stunning, without lagging or chugging, and the gameplay has been improved to be more realistic. I never thought I would change over to FIFA, but Pro Evo is continually putting out similar versions each year and being left way behind.

Full of stuff to do and see. especially its more real than pro this year. this is my first fifa and only fifa. i usually bought pro becuse i thought it was a simulation but if you cant see than the tables have turned then your dellusional or dont know a thing about football to wise up and go play a poor japaneese football arcade game.

It would have been nice though to have more of the Rest of the World teams. Also legendary players like Litmanen, Batistuta, Zola, Bergkamp, Zidane - or maybe you unlock them? FIFA 09, advances on last year's effort that finally put FIFA ahead of Pro Evolution Soccer. Only this has even more detail, greater animations and even more realism. A few tweaks have been made to the management sides. I think if the management side was as indepth as Football Manager, you'd have the best of both worlds lol. FIFA is the best Football game on the market and even if your not a football fan, its just a very well made game that deserves to be played. SCORE : 90%… Expand

As a FIFA fan I had high expectations for this one and I would have to say that it is the best by far of any I have played. The graphics are stunning and the new features including the collision system and ball control is great and makes for a more realistic experience. 10 out of 10 for sure.

Having never played the PES franchise and really not getting into the soccer (as we Yankees call it) gaming franchise until Euro 2008, I was surprised at how well FIFA 09 was done. My friend who hates watching soccer called Euro 2008 the "best sports game he's played in a while." FIFA 09 was pretty much the same thing with slightly better graphics, slightly better handling, and many more teams (and commentary tracks). One thing I had to severely ding FIFA 09 on was its lack of a co-op "Be a Pro" mode that was present in Euro 2008 in the "Captain Your Country" mode. The game also gets repetitive after a while after you improve your pro character and they get really good. The only thing to do is ratchet up the difficulty and once you get used to how the computer plays, it's just a matter of polishing the play. I understand that with the immense number of players that are in the various leagues that are used in the game that it's hard to have a single announcer team speak all the names, but I think that at least giving one announce team a better variety of last names to say would have been nicer. However, with the downloadable commentary tracks it's fun to play in the Polska Liga with the Polish announcers speaking in the background. I have yet to try the online mode, but I generically don't play online with sports games anyway, since I'm not that good. I also have yet to try out the Manager Mode, which seems like it would be a great way to enjoy the game (although I don't like that achievement that says play every game in a Manager Mode career without missing one...). But with my limited experience with the soccer sports genre, I do have to say that FIFA 09 certainly slapped Madden 09 in the face in terms of quality and I'll be happy to buy FIFA 2011 when it comes out (I only buy sports games every other year).… Expand

lots of fun to play and the commentary was good for most parts. one thing that annoyed me though was when players when strangely pass to the other team or the only player offside even when you try aiming and pushing in the direction where you want the pass to go. Other than a couple of minor faults this is far and away my favourite football game

Fifa took Pro Evo’s mantle in 2006 and Pro Evo has not had a sniff since. It's not been that Fifa was good or even great; it's just that Pro Evo have been absolutely shocking. Last year we got a glimpse of greatness but their potential was far from fulfilled. This year they've nearly achieved greatness. Only a few small things prevent it from being the archetype for future football games. Graphically the game is sound. Models are not quite right but are beautifully animated with little motion/refresh problems as experienced last year and issues which still plague Pro Evo. The sound is incredible with team songs being sung for individual teams and the commentary from Gray and Tyler being almost perfect. The only flaw that often occurs is that when a lot happens in a short space of time, the commentary can take a while to catch up with the play - which is a minor niggle. The stadiums are beautiful (I love playing at the Emirates on the night time Champion's League games - gives me goose bumps). Gameplay is fluid as it always it with Fifa and the controls replicate the winning formula employed by Pro Evo (except the shot/lob buttons have been reversed - this can be reset in the settings). With Pro Evo, even in their better days, their difficulty settings and AI was poor. Historically though, Fifa's AI was a lot worse with exploits and scoring patterns being easy to adopt. Pro Evo's issue centred around an attack/defend mindset of the AI. On easy settings, team would rarely attack, leaving you to break them down. This was tedious and dull (like watching Sunderland against Manu this year in the Premiership). However on higher difficulty settings, the AI decides to rip you to shit and in doing so were far more vulnerable at the back, which in turn made the game easier on the hardest difficulty. Fifa 09 however, the reverse it true. On the harder difficulties, passes become harder, you're forced to think more strategically and a gung ho attitude celebrated by Pro Evo's harder difficulty settings are cruelly punished in Fifa 09 and I'm glad of it. One minor game play niggle is that the linesman always gets it right and the benefit of the doubt NEVER stands with the attacking team. It would be nice (and probably frustrating to its victim) to be able to ENABLE a mode which allows the officials to make mistakes, based on their position in relation to the play. The wealth of leagues, players and gaming modes make this game a must have, everything is polished, the management mode is excellent, if lacking depth slightly (go buy Football Manager 2009 for the PC - awesome) and the "Be A Pro" season reminds me of how much I used to love Actua Soccer and how great that franchise could have become. Fifa have done their research here and it pays dividends. The game has legs and I can see me playing this in months to come. The only reason not to buy it is that EA made it and that they are responsible for the dissolution of the greatest sports franchise created, the NFL 2K series from Sega Sports. Bastards. I'll never, ever forgive them.… Expand

Really the only problem in this game is the amount of glitches there are everything else is awesome!!! I mean they improved manager mode to being better. They made be a pro mode and that is a really fun mode but dont forget about tournament and lounge mode and u still have online to play especially as when you have that 11 vs 11 and your one player and dont forget about ranked matches. well the only bad thing is the glitches but it wont slow the game down from being the best soccer game out there at the moment. this years fifa is way better than pes. so go to gamestop and get your copy today.… Expand

Fifa 09 is overall a good football game but there are some very anoying problems gameplay : there are some new modes to uniqe to this version of fifa such as the be a pro mode which is, to me, more fun to lay than the standard, birds eye view control everyone mode (especially online).there is also the option to download live daily updates of the teams of your choise which is an excellent feature for football heads. enjoyability: its fun for short periods of time single player but is far more fum playing online or against a buddy. presentation: the graphics are good and the trach list is ok but what i hate is the menue screen which is notoriously hard to navigate.… Expand

All the annoying bugs from 2 years ago are still here. The ridiculas pause of your current player as he seems to decide what to do next is infurating and just one of manythings that haven't been fixed. The fact that EA keep giving out the same game with only 1 or 2 new features is really a joke and to me prooves that you can sell any old crap to teenage footy fans. The "be a pro" mode is, quite simply, boring. For FIFA 10, expect a new cover, new shirts, the same old bugs and the exact same game modes. Well, they might add some new ball skins and use that as a major selling point.… Expand

Nice, this is the type of soccer game I can recommend, the graphics are alright, and at least they didn't add the curves while players are running but they have to run straight without losing any balance to the ball. I you compare it to FIFA 10, not really, even though FIFA promised that most players moralities would be even higher, but looks like, still the same thing. Anyway on FIfa 09 you don't get as much as bugs as FIFA 10.The bad thing though is the AI is a bit slow when you want to make slick passes, and it's really detailed as FIFA 10's graphics. Though for game speed it's simple and fast.… Expand