Fifa 08 was good and U.E.F.A Euro 2008 is too, but is it better?
But despite this there was a still a few things with fifa 08 that annoyed alot of people including me. There was terrible foul decisons where if you lay just a finger on the opposition they would tumble to the floor and you would conceed a free kick. Another thing that was slightly lacking in 08 was the AI that was still a bit flimsy and dopey it still sometimes felt like the players didnt have brains in their heads.
So with euro 2008 coming out EA had a chance to address these problems and make an overall better game than 08 and make changes along the way, I always buy the mid season titles because I always find them alot better than the main fifa titles because how they get improved.
Well euro 2008, it plays as well as fifa 08, it looks as good as fifa 08 and if not slightly better, the graphics look slighly smoother. There is slight changes to gameplay though, you now power ground passes and this does give the gameplay an all round slightly different feel. It now feels slighly easier to score to me now, the defence is harder to break down though, but shooting seems to be a bit more rocket assisted like it used to on the old fifas but not completely. The crosses have also been improved and are easier to get on the end of.
Now the AI this was something I was hoping would be improved and to be honest its only been improved slighly I think the silly fouls dont happen anywhere near as much anymore which is good but it still does occasionally happen which is annoying. The players still act a little dopey sometimes its not as sharp as I had hoped it would be and the goalkeepers seem to love to parry the ball back out to the oppostion rather than catch it.
Usually the mid season titles seem to bring a freshness to the game and make it alot more exciting and more fun to play for a fair while, this game had done that to an extent for me but has gotten too familiar quicker than usual, I just dont know i have mixed reactiins for this one, it is a great game dont get me wrong just not as good as I had hoped maybe I expected too much?