EA: UEFA Euro 2008

[Toshowyouwhy]

Just wondering if anyone owns or has played this game. It is a fantastic upgrade to FIFA 08 and on ps3 is definately the best money can buy right now.

The Captain Your Country mode is fantastic, and all of it provides hope that FIFA 09 will be unbelievable.

Any other thoughts??

 

[davey_magik]

Might hire it for 360, won't buy it though. FIFA 08 is enough for me. Do they finally have the licence for the Netherlands national team?

I'd only buy it if the single player was a big improvement on 08. FIFA 08 has really good multiplayer, but shithouse single player. I mean the only way to score goals is the old cross along the ground into the box.

 

[melbournemartin]

Even with an underwhelming PES 08, it still murders FIFA any day of the week.

 

[Fender]

The through ball is a shocker. Had PES 08 and Fifa 08 for PS2, PES shat all over it. If PES had the licence's it would be the ultimante. Apparantly Fifa is much better on PS3 compared to 2. Anbody confirm? May go hire Euro.

 

[jordanrobbo3]

The through ball is a shocker. Had PES 08 and Fifa 08 for PS2, PES shat all over it. If PES had the licence's it would be the ultimante. Apparantly Fifa is much better on PS3 compared to 2. Anbody confirm? May go hire Euro.

I have fifa 08 on both ps2 and ps3 and the ps3 version is heaps better. Cant wait for fifa 09 to come out.

 

[Bosun]

Just wondering if anyone owns or has played this game. It is a fantastic upgrade to FIFA 08 and on ps3 is definately the best money can buy right now.

The Captain Your Country mode is fantastic, and all of it provides hope that FIFA 09 will be unbelievable.

Any other thoughts??

Whats Captain your Country mode? Is it similar to that play as one player feauture on FIFA 08? I still havent played that but Im quite keen to see how it is.

 

[Toshowyouwhy]

It's Be a Pro except you fight your way up through qualification against 3 rivals to earn the captaincy. Hopefully FIFA 09 has a go of something similar at club level.

 

[Kerrby]

Isn't UEFA EURO 2008 a really bad game compared to the other soccer games?

 

[melbournemartin]

The Euro and WC spin offs are normally worse than the regular FIFA games which are normally pretty average anyway.

 

[Fender]

I actually thought the WC version was better than Fifa 06.

 

[melbournemartin]

I remember playing WC 2002. Strikers with 10 out of 10 for shooting shot balls with fire coming out from behind them. I'll give EA that, it was darn cool.

 

[JasRulz63]

I remember playing WC 2002. Strikers with 10 out of 10 for shooting shot balls with fire coming out from behind them. I'll give EA that, it was darn cool.

On the easiest mode, you could shoot from just forward of half-way, with those special shooters, and it went in, I remember that

 

[melbournemartin]

If you wanted a run, pass it to a guy with 10/10 for speed and he'll have a nice fire trail too!

EA seemed to like their fire in that game. I wonder if any of them...got fired for it.

Oh yeah, I went there.

 

[Jabso]

On the easiest mode, you could shoot from just forward of half-way, with those special shooters, and it went in, I remember that

I had Road to the World Cup 2002 for the gamecube and despite it's shortcomings was a very fun game. The graphics were really good for it's time and some of the cutscenes for a yellow card and the pre-game celebrations were awesome.

After a while it was pretty easy to blast through goals from halfway regularly.

Another fun feature was getting a mate to play with you and seeing who could score the most outrageous goal. The juggling feature was useless for anything but this.

I remember juggling from just outside the centre circle and firing a shot in mid air through for a goal. Other goals that were fun was juggling all away form the defense for a goal.

 

[davey_magik]

Being the sports tragic I am I was sucked in to buying this game and I actually think the gameplay is a lot better than FIFA 08.

The keepers in FIFA 08 were far too good (Compared to the guys who flapped at 50 yard shots in FIFA 04 ) but Euro 2008 seems to have a nice balance in it.

 

[melbournemartin]

I find that these games often are more flashy and less realistic in terms of gameplay than the regular FIFA games because they are aimed at casual soccer fans who are swept in by the Euro/World Cup fan fair, as much as they are for hardcore soccer fans.

It also lets EA "test" out some features for their next FIFA game which is always going to sell far more.

 

[Juddy88]

Anyone else or have played this game? PS2


Saw a pre owned version of it pretty cheap.

I've got FIFA 09 as well, so is it worth getting or nah?

Cheers.