Finally a football game with some sort of innovation...

User Rating: 7.7 | UEFA Champions League 2006-2007 X360
Now I’m not really much of a soccer fan and I don’t know many names besides David Beckham and pretty much only ever watch world cup matches, but regardless of that fact I found this to be quite fun and highly addictive, in fact during my weekend I was barely able to tear myself away from it, the gameplay is fairly smooth but could of done with a little more tweaking on the tackle/dribble system but what really makes this game stand out and in fact urged me to purchase it in the first place over any other football title out there is the interesting card system where you buy card packs and randomly receive player cards and various types of bonus cards, so if you used to be the type as a kid that spent all his pocket money on buying card/sticker packs with that hope of getting one of those few decent rare cards that would set you apart from all the other kids, then you will immensely enjoy earning points by playing matches and purchasing new packs of cards in a desperate hope of gaining a rare card, without the sick feeling you get after you realise you just spent £20 on a bunch of cards only to realise once you've opened all the packets you’ve got a pile crappy cards you already had 5 doubles of staring back at you. Haven’t really hooked this up to live yet so cannot comment on the trading system or multiplayer but so far I have not been disappointed with my purchase despite having little patience for sports games or even sports in general.