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FIFA Street 3 xbox360 Game Reviews
FIFA Street 3
Critic Score
Metascore: 63 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.3 out of 10
based on 48 reviews
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Featuring over 250 of the world’s best players representing 18 of the top international teams, each player has been rendered into a stylized caricature with heroic qualities. Decked out in authentic training kits, every player boasts their own, distinctive style of play with unique abilities to match. Whether you’re after brawn, brains, silky skills or crunching tackles to complete your team, the perfect street player is out there. Choose from Tricksters, Enforcers, Playmakers and Finishers to give you different options on the ball and make your mark on the street. Fill up your all-new Game Breaker to power your ultimate abilities and express yourself like never before. Maneuver your players to leap past defenders, flip off walls, or perform gravity-defying one-timers to score spectacular goals. From the urban playgrounds of South America to the rooftops in Asia to the streets of Europe, your players perform to an eclectic selection of music seamlessly infused into the surroundings, where the game’s environments pulsate, and explode to life with every well-timed tackle, outrageous trick move or unstoppable shot on goal. [Electronic Arts]

PUBLISHER: Electronic Arts
DEVELOPER: EA Canada
GENRE(S): Sports
PLAYERS: 8
ESRB RATING: E (Everyone)
RELEASE DATE: February 18, 2008

What The Critics Said

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85
Jolt Online Gaming UK
FIFA Street 3 is about taking all the superficial and superfluous things about modern day football – from the overhead kicks to the pop-culture that surrounds the beautiful game in the 21 st century – and placing them centre stage.
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83
Games Master UK
As satisfying as a nutmeg and as exciting as a scissor kick. A vast improvement from before. [Feb 2008, p.56]
80
Total Video Games
FIFA Street 3 thoroughly improves the series with its leap onto the next-gen consoles, not only visually, but in terms of gameplay and all-round appeal as well. However, if you're looking for single-player mileage out of it, you're best of getting a copy of PES or FIFA. This game is unashamedly all about multiplayer party gaming.
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80
DarkStation
If you're a soccer fan you got to go out and try this game, it's actually quite entertaining especially if you play online or have some friends over.
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77
Team Xbox
Even with some of the gameplay issues that, if avoided, could have helped to make a better overall game, FIFA Street 3 is still a fun pick-up-and-play experience for the raving soccer fan.
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77
Xbox World 360 Magazine UK
EA have created the football equivalent of "NBA Street" - and it's great. [Apr 2008, p.82]
71
Gamer 2.0
While slim on modes, the sum of FIFA Street 3’s individual parts makes it recommendable to anyone, including those who aren’t too hot for soccer.
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70
Thunderbolt
Unfortunately, it looks as if there isn’t enough content or new ideas that will make many gamers readily come back for more once the original challenges are completed.
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70
PALGN
FIFA Street 3 would be a great game if it could manage to find some depth. As it is, the game is immediately pleasing, but runs out of puff too quickly, especially in solo play.
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70
Totally360
FIFA Street 3 dazzles like thrift-store bling round a pit bull terrier’s neck. Shallow but reasonably satisfying, the best is still yet to come from the FIFA Street series.
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70
GamePro
A fantastic sense of style puts the series' best foot forward, but it's at a cost of losing the relative depth found in the previous two installments. [Apr 2008, p.85]
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70
GameSpy
A markedly better game than its predecessors.
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70
GameZone
FIFA Street 3 offers some nice improvements over previous FIFA Street games, but unfortunately is devoid of a time-investing career mode, making it one that you might get bored with before too long.
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70
Game Informer
These improvements stand in contrast to the continued weak goalie AI, unhelpful camera work, and iffy passing.
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70
PTGamers
Third game in the FIFA Street series, and EA is still looking for the best balance between playability and fun. It's enjoyable to play, but it can become tedious after a while.
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70
Official Xbox Magazine UK
It's a good job the multiplayer's so enjoyable because, if we're being honest, the single-player mode is pretty shallow.
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68
Cheat Code Central
It's got to be the best FIFA Street to date. The presentation is exactly where it needs to be and deserves high marks. Gamers will be pleasantly surprised to find such a smooth and attractive game. Disappointingly, the gameplay feels only moderately better than the title's predecessors.
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68
Game Almighty
Overall this game doesn’t take any chances and it suffers because of it.
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67
GameShark
It lacks pace, but makes up for it with skills and basic soccer strategy. What it lacks is teams and depth in its gameplay modes.
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67
IGN
FIFA Street 3 seems to be steering the series in the right direction as it’s an improvement over the first two installments. Still, it’s lacking in a few key areas and that’s what keeps it from attaining the glory that other Street games have been able to find.
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65
GameSpot
FIFA Street 3 has plenty of style but not quite enough substance to justify the price of admission.
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65
Maxi Consolas (Portugal)
Although it tries to reinvent the franchise it doesn’t represent a step forward. Quite the opposite. It throws away some of the promising elements of previous titles in favor a new structure and gameplay with little depth. And it still fails to offer the same flair as other Street brand titles from EA Sports Big. [March 2008]
65
Xbox360Achievements
The game feels rushed, with an obvious lack of love and passion.
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65
Game Over Online
FIFA Street 3 single player lacks the depth that is needed to have players coming back for more.
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65
Play Magazine
I'm totally open to a game like this working off a solid simplicity, but ultimately Fifa Street 3 isn't strong enough at its core to keep the reward of play on a fever pitch. [Apr 2008, p.61]
62
GameTrailers
FIFA Street 3 is action-packed, well-balanced, and fun for multiplayer sessions, but its lack of content and simple play mechanics stifle the long-term prospects.
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60
GameTap
For whatever reason, FIFA Street 3 is about as deep as a book of poetry by Paris Hilton.
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60
EuroGamer
There is a great, great game yet to be made in this subset of the football sub-genre, where the depth of a beat-'em-up lurks beneath accessible showboating, but this isn't it.
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60
GameDaily
The graphics don't look bad and the music is a well-chosen, energetic mix of EA Trax. However, the game feels more like a rehash than a full-blown sequel, with little improvement in the controls and not much to explore outside of decent online play and unexpectedly short modes.
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60
VideoGamer
It looks great and has more character than any sports game I've ever played, but its gameplay is too shallow and unrewarding to provide long-term entertainment.
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60
X360 Magazine UK
Good in the short term, somewhat tedious in the long. [Issue#30, p.88]
60
AceGamez
No one can deny that the game has got style - it oozes it from the menu screen and onto the football pitch in typical EA fashion - however, it lacks the depth and substance to make it appeal for more than a couple of hours, after which you may start to question the wisdom of your investment.
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60
MS Xbox World
FIFA Street 3 is a fun game in small doses simply because it is lacking in true depth.
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60
Gamervision
The omission of previously available features, like season mode and create-a-player, make this a serious step down in terms of gameplay and replay value, and what’s left isn’t quite worth the price of admission.
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60
Worth Playing
While the title has made great strides in improving the overall look of the players and fields, the actual gameplay has already grown incredibly bland and repetitive.
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60
Gamestyle
Fifa Street 3 certainly kept us hooked for a while. It has an excellent online mode, but is let down by its single player shortcomings.
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59
Planet Xbox 360
This game may not appeal to a big percentage of soccer fans. Nevertheless, it does provide a few good laughs albeit short-lived. It’s not a game I can see myself playing consistently.
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58
Gaming Age
You will get a visual style that is like no other, the ability to perform over the top moves off of interactive environments, and score a lot during the process. This is soccer on adrenaline.
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57
Game Chronicles
It’s just not very fun and has very little to set it apart from other games. EA really needs to take a look at what they are doing with this series.
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57
IGN UK
Though the game enthralls in short bursts it’s hard to see anyone sticking with it for more than a couple of plays before moving on to more substantial fare – and as such we wouldn’t recommend anyone paying out for the full-fat asking price.
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54
Console Monster
The Street series should just be burning in a great hole right now, in a firework display of broken promises.
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50
360 Gamer Magazine UK
Despite the undeniable popularity of the series, this third game would do well to take time off to reinvent itself for the inevitable sequel next year. While it doesn’t shirk on the number of game modes available, the actual substance of these offerings doesn’t add up to much.
50
Official Xbox Magazine
The FIFA Street series has enough interesting ideas to sustain a fully realized, sports remix, but after three lackluster entries, it desperately needs to work on its finishing technique. [Mar 2008, p.92]
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50
GamerNode
Street 3 is the best game yet in the FIFA Street series. Sadly, it's still a bad game compared to the other soccer offerings out there. Limited gameplay choices, repetitive play, and lots of little things add up.
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47
Electronic Gaming Monthly
The new "Incredibles"-esque visuals and accessible dribbling mechanics are welcome, but this arcadey pitch still needs grooming. [Mar 2008, p.75]
45
1UP
For all its flaws this one's still fun for a short kickaround, but in the end it's really nothing more than a softcore novelty.
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42
Game Revolution
This series would benefit greatly from a re-imagining. Send the developers to the streets of Paris or Mexico City or Johannesburg; then have them come back and make a real FIFA Street game.
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40
G4 TV
A sequel isn’t supposed to be softer, poorer, slower, weaker, but that sadly sums up FIFA Street 3's questionable content.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this game is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Noah R. gave it a4:
FIFA Street 3 went in the opposite direction of FIFA Street 2. The game dropped player creation and made players very cartoony. An utter disappointment for street soccer fans everywhere.

Tom S. gave it a7:
As the years have gone by it is true that the FIFA Street series has gone downhill. Fifa Street was fantastic,number 2 just above average and this latest edition continues the downward slide. The series has lost the fun and customization of the first Street, however this 3rd game is not as bad as people think. More detail has been added to the arenas, and the new cartoon-style graphics work well for most players. Despite this FIFA Street 3 has a poor soundtrack and the only good game mode is the inspired playground picks. The challenge mode is nothing compared the Rule the Street mode of the the first FIFA Street, because you cant make a player or buy other players.

Ian C gave it a9:
I don't think that most reviewers are being fair with this, it feels like they are putting Pro Evo or Fifa 08 and Fifa St side by side and comparing, but they are totally different games, the only common ground is football. Fifa St is hugely accessible, fast and funky street football that just about anyone can pick up and have fun with, and it is TREMENDOUS fun, especially with friends. Graphics are amazing too. So, yes it is arcadey and doesn't have a billion footy-geek options concerning buying and selling players, leagues yawno yawno, it is straight up super dynamic, adrenaline fueled trick and stunt filled street football gloriousness. if in doubt, download the demo. I was in doubt, I downloaded the demo, and then rushed out and got the first copy I came across. Simply brilliant.

James M. gave it a9:
This game is awesome. Its so easy to pick up and play, but its pretty deep too. Definitely pick it up!

Some Guy gave it a2:
All you have to do is lob the ball once or twice before shooting and you can practically drill it from any distance. If only they fixed that, this game might have been fantastic.

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