Take Your Country All The Way In Germany.

User Rating: 7.4 | FIFA World Cup: Germany 2006 X360
2006 Fifa World Cup is a sure bet for any football fan. If you have been looking for a game where you can take your nation all the way to the World Cup Final then this is for you.

Players can either go straight to the finals and pick one of the 32 teams who made it in real life, or can decide to play through the qualifiers, either with the real or randomized groups. It's really fun playing in all these matches but if you choose to go straight to the last 32, then you will only play a maximum of six matches - and that's if you make it to the final. However, the true footy fan will choose to do it over and over again with lots of different teams.

There are quite a few Global Challenges which basically invlove copying history and making second-half-five-goal-comebacks etc. etc. Some of these are quite straight forward where as others are extremely difficult and will have even the coolest headed player very frustrated.

You can take the game online and play against people from around the world and have a lot of fun. However, if you have a bad connection then there may be a ridiculous amount of lag which makes it extremely difficuly to play effectively.

The graphics in this game are superb, with connfetti, flags, and flares looking really nice. Surpsingly though, some of the players do not really ressemle their real life counterparts (even people like Lampard and Owen), which is quite strange as the game is made by the same company who make FIFA.

Gameplay is another plus in the game. It's very easy to control players and pull of passes and shots etc. It's quite difficult, sometimes, to go round players, but I guess that stays true to real life.

Overall, a good football game, but there may not be much appeal to make you replay it with different countries, unless you are a true football fanatic.