Fifa Street 3 is the best street style game from EA which isnt saying much, but Fifa is just fun to play
Fifa Street 3 is hardcore street footy with 5 on 5 matches in various locations such as the beach, a oil rig, and a jungle. The game is incredibly simple and very easy to dive right in and play. The control scheme in the game allows this pick up and play mentality, and very much more so than previous entries in the series. The left analog stick moves the selected player, and the B button shoots and the x button crosses the ball. These are the same basic controls as the regular Fifa game, and if you have played one of those before there is a good chance you will beat most of the competition in Fifa Street 3. The real gameplay comes in the form of trick execution and there are plenty of moves to pull off. The Y button on the control flicks the ball in the air, and continuous presses causes the player to juggle the ball. The right analog stick controls the other set of tricks which are ball feints and clever foot maneuvers. The tricks are incredibly simple to pull off, and you will be performing them in no time.
Fifa Street 3 feels cheap at many points in the game. The easiest thing to do to ensure a goal nearly every time is to juggle the ball right in front of the net and shoot as the ball is in the air. The goalies basically do not even attempt to stop these shots, and using this technique feels a lot like cheating the game. The analog tricks for the most part do not lead to goals, but they fill up the gamebreaker meter nicely. When this meter is full you can unleash a powerful gamebreaker mode, where nearly every shot is an instant goal. The gamebreaker provides a good change of pace, but you can easily fill up the meter too many times in a match.
There are many different types of matches in Fifa Street. Besides normal matches there are matches were you need to reach a goal limit first such as 5 goals, gamebreakers only matches where a goal only counts when in gamebreaker mode, headers and volley matches where a goal only counts if you head the ball or shoot off a volley, and plain 5 on 5 matches with no gamebreakers. There is a basic single player mode called Fifa Street Challenge. Here you progress a ladder of events with 3-5 events per challenge. The challenges were all very easy, and the entire single player game only took a few hours. The meat of the game rests online, as there will be close matches everytime as compared to destroying the computer all game. There are still plenty of people playing online also.
The graphics if Fifa Street are just average or slightly below average, and many of the players look nothing like the real life counter parts. The sound in the is ok just because the soundtrack is decent, but all of the other sounds in the game including the stupid robotic announcer is incredibly lame.
Overall Fifa Street when boiled down is a very fun game to play with friends, but really doesn't function as a single player game. Its a good buy with the game being cheap enough, and people still playing online. Overall Fifa Street 3 gets a 7.5/10.
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