Not quite perfect, but still worth a try. At least it's better than 06!

User Rating: 8.4 | FIFA 07 Soccer PC
Like EA always did they released another one of their long lasting soccer franchise game FIFA 07. For those who played FIFA 06, you will see only a few minor changes for the first few hours of play. In fact, EA has taken care of many details in real life soccer game, and it is somewhat exciting to see those in EA Sports' game although it still feels like something could be improved. For those who only played upto FIFA 2003 for instance, you will be quite astonished by the gameplay.

This year's major change is their soccer ball. Now the soccer ball is more bouncy, and gives more real-soccer-ball-like-feelings. The ball doesn't look like pre-scripted sphere shaped object anymore and it now looks like moving by external forces. It is nice to see players fighting for goal keeper's long press kick and both fall down just to miss the ball which happens quite often in real soccer games.

They also changed their manager mode a bit by introducing realistic scale of franchise revenue and more goals to achieve. Now your goal can include things like upgrading your staff members or winning 70% or more of your home games. Other than that, you won't really find much difference from FIFA 06's manager mode.

They managed to take care of minor details in visual and sound effect of the game as now fans sound better and look better. Stadium looks better now and a lot of players look impressively better. They are not the most significant factor of the game for sure, but it is always nice to see a stadium only half full because the friendly match is usually not too attractive like in real soccer games.

Although it feels like EA could've done better job with AI player's defence (and your other defence players you don't control) as they tend to fall down to deep almost back to penalty box area quite too often.

Again, this game, as always, is not perfect. But given the improvement I see from this year's FIFA game, I am quite satisfied. This one is worth a try.