FIFA 08 Soccer

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Complete Authenticity - Featuring 30 leagues, 30 real stadiums and 14,000 players
• Share Replays (PC) - Now you can save and show-off your best games or just the highlights! It is easy to capture a game or key moments and export as a video file to share with your friends and foes. Brag about match-winning plays and goals or even capture the entire ninety minutes to relive your favorite games

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000RHVO9W
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5 x 0.8 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: October 9, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,387 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #6 in Video Games > PC Games > Sports > Soccer

Product Description

Platform: PC

Get closer to the action than ever before by mastering the skills required to play like a real Soccer player in FIFA 08. Step into the boots of a professional player through a new mode called Be A Pro: Co-op Season that challenges you to master the same disciplines as a real professional football player from positioning and tackling to reading the field and passing. Step onto the field with your created player to play an entire game as that footballer, and develop him into an elite player over the course of the season. Never before have you been able to approach the game this way, improving your abilities one skill at a time just as if you were a pro. Play with up to three friends playing all fixed to their players on your favorite club, complete individual challenges to develop your player attributes and win glory for the squad, while competing with your friends to develop the best player by season's end. From the moment you step on the pitch, FIFA 08 challenges you to think and react like a real football player by giving you complete control over all of the action. New manual controls enable you to dictate the play with control over through-passing and crossing. Control the goalkeeper in one-on-one situations to deny the striker yourself. Take ultimate control over your defenders with new manual controls that enable you to use the right-stick to quickly switch defenders and choose exactly who you want to control when defending. Plus, now it is more strategic to break down the opposition than ever before with new defensive and positioning logic that ensures players are in the right place at the right time, constantly considering all threats and opportunities.
Intelligently manage your club by preparing for each specific opponent using new custom formations. Design your own unique strategy to create the perfect formation and tactics. Assign roles and move players to the exact position in relation to teammates

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, November 8, 2007

By 

Terran A. Eligon (Trinidad) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: FIFA 08 Soccer (DVD-ROM)

The music sucks.

Great improvement in goalkeeping. Scoring was still a little too easy in '07, but this one makes scoring harder, and therefore, the game is more competitive. Commentary is questionable at times such as "Great save!" when the goalkeeper hasn't even seen the ball!

Graphics have taken a plunge. The players all look blurry during gameplay. Unlike '07, you can not tell exactly WHO the player is during gameplay. Replays look less realistic, and watching it in slow motion exposes just how awkward was that "great play" you just made. Fouls (yellow and red cards) do look well deserved in replays although you wouldn't think your foul was so bad during actual gameplay.

Overall, it's the same entertainment as '07, but LESS realistic. Scoring (when you do score) is usually a well placed shot, a good attempt by the goalkeeper, or just pure skill and foolishness on the opponent's part that looks well put together.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Much better..., November 8, 2007

By 

Steve L - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: FIFA 08 Soccer (DVD-ROM)

I don't know what the other guys were talking about FIFA 07 being better, 08 improves on a lot of stuff. The gameplay is NOT the same, defending is much better in this game. Computer aren't that dumb any more and the goalies are a lot better too. The new player switching and goal keeper controls also help out when you learn how to use them. There's also quick free kicks, you can actually push up your goal keepers on corners when you're down a goal. There is widescreen support for this game, I run it at 1440x990. For the person who said he feels auto switching is too slow, you can change the speed in options. FIFA 07 was full of bugs too and it was way too easy to score even on the hardest difficulty.

Now on to the cons, the game difficulty has been turned up a notch, and it is a lot harder to score, it took me a while to learn how to score on a consistent basis... and there is that bug of when you shoot and miss the commentators think the goalkeeper saved it... but they're minor bugs

Graphics aren't much improved though

Overall I feel it is a much more realistic game... soccer usually isn't a high scoring game, and in FIFA 07 goals were way too easy to score

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars FIFA 08 - going backwards from FIFA 07, October 13, 2007

By 

Sonny (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: FIFA 08 Soccer (DVD-ROM)

FIFA 07 PC was a great game and FIFA 08 is almost the same, but takes a step backwards. The graphics are not as good (I don't know why they altered the graphics - the players look like they're wearing phony toupees, and they don't move with the fluidity and realism of FIFA 07). If you want to just watch a game, there is absolutely no scoring - you could watch a fairly realistic game in FIFA 07.
The manager mode is basically the same, and the press asks you the same managerial questions you've answered a thousand times in FIFA 07 - enough already! How could they not change these questions?
There seem to be more errors in the gameplay and announcing, and they haven't fixed some of the old ones. In the manager mode, for example - players you loan out to other teams can play against you (they can't do this in the real world).
When you control a team, the gameplay might be a little better - you probably can't run down the sidelines as much as FIFA 07 (in world class mode), and it's a little tougher to take the ball away from the offense. The "be a pro" technique is fun.
Overall, it's basically FIFA 07 with lesser graphics and less realistic player motions. At least you get the updated teams and ratings and a few more announcing tidbits from Clive Tyldesley. If you don't want the updated teams, you can probably just stick with FIFA 07, or wait and see if the price goes down on FIFA 08.

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