I'll tell you what this is. It's FIFA at night with players that sometimes slide and hook the ball to stop it going out of play. In fact, sometimes it seems that the players miss the ball on purpose just so they can slide and keep it in play. Electronic Arts have a new animation, kids and they're not afraid to use it. I was really excited when I bought the game. It's probably just FIFA again, but WHAT IF IT WASN'T!? What if they'd made a sweet new football game that's going to give our lunch hour new meaning? I could order some of those boards that show how much injury time has been added and hold them up before extending our session beyond lunch time and well into the afternoon. I think this review build tells us I don't need to bother ordering those boards. For some reason, the game plays in widescreen. Not proper windscreen, but letterboxed. They use the black space to put in the score and player names, but it looks really odd. On the default view (massively zoomed out) playing with a composite cable (the yellow, red and white one you get free) I could hardly see what was going on. I couldn't tell Man U and Monaco apart. It's got Clive, though. You can't beat a bit of Clive. Tyldesley is the top man when it comes to football game commentary. Andy Gray sounds uncomfortable, like he's sitting on a mountain of broken glass while reading his lines. But Tyldesley's right there. He's inside your GameCube and the cramped conditions aren't affecting his vocal performance one bit. Oh no... It'd be a bit weak if you only had four English teams to choose from in this game, so EA let you dream. If you want to take Charlton or Southampton to the San Siro, it's your choice. The game won't even laugh at you. But you could have done this in the last FIFA game, too. It doesn't say 'Champions League', but you can get the same experience bar the admitted excellent presentation.
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