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FIFA 09 (Xbox 360) | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
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Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 19
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: soccer-games
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930067878
ASIN: B001B7EYPI
Release Date: October 3, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Manufacturer's Description
Step onto the pitch and play professional football your way in FIFA 09. Experience the most authentic football simulation EA Sports has delivered as you live the fantasy of playing as a professional player and customise the game to suit your style and ability. Powered by the third generation of the EA Sports football engine, FIFA 09 features more than 250 core gameplay additions and enhancements that deliver the most responsive, intelligent and realistic action ever for the series. Enjoy turning defenders with more controlled dribbling and ball control, snapping off precision shots with improved first-time shooting mechanics and firing beautifully timed passes with greater accuracy, placing the ball exactly where you want it. With new player momentum physics the speed and weight of the player determines everything from the distance of a slide tackle and the power of a header to the severity of player collisions and the height of a player's jump. Plus, players now behave according to their physical attributes with larger, stronger players dominating collisions, battles for control of the ball, and position in challenges for two player headers.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 51 more reviews...
 How can it be criticised? November 22, 2008
Bad Man Sam
I really don't agree with all the critism towards this game. Their have been vast improvements not to mention the inredible amount of realistic stadiums and for a lower league supporter (Urrrrrrz) i was delighted with the graphic levels of the lower teams. All that about "their is a set way to score" is rubbish. It will only be that way if you play that way also to say the celebrations are poor is stupid their are loads of realistic celebrations. Overall i think is a great game.
 absolute crap November 14, 2008
mark ramsbottom (London,England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
i am a pes boy and this latest fifa is awful the gameplay is horrible and who cares about officialness apart from those who know nothing about football.
 Frustrating November 13, 2008
Xbox geek with no friends (I'm in Leeds :))
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not as good as Fifa 08, EA claim to have made over 250 improvements, I'd like to hear them all. The advantage rule is useless despite the commentators banging on about how great it is repeatedly throughout matches. I've had several goals disallowed and brought back for freekicks which is the most frustrating thing ever.
Another thing that really annoys me is bringing the keeper out to collect any long balls over the top. There's no consistancy, sometimes the keeper will just automatically boot it up or sometimes he'll becoming a controlled player and take a massive touch and inevitably gets tackled.
SO to conclude, this game's a whopper, don't buy it. I haven't tried Pes 09 yet but I'm seriously considering it. If you can lend Fifa, play it for 3 days none stop, then spend your pennies on Mirrors Edge instead! :) xxx
what a game! November 8, 2008
Mr. J. C. Trewin (london, england)
it's got everything. first off, it's the most fun fifa game ever. i love that you can take shots in the training ground while you wait for it to load.
the graphics are immense and the stadiums look so real.
the commentary is unbelievably good. Martin Tyler and Andy Gray provide it and i have heard such phrases as "great goal from shevchenko, rediscoving the form he failed to find in his big money move to chelsea"!
better yet, be a pro is so good and realistic. you call for the ball whenever you weant and you get plus points if you call for it in a good position and minus if you are not. you get points for completed passes, shots, dribbles, defense, telling a player to shoot. it's so good.
career mode is as in-depth as usual and betteer.
forget pro, get this it's the complete footy game
The number one football game, by quite a long shot October 31, 2008
J. Turrell (UK)
As the title suggests, having played FIFA and Pro Evo (and having switched between the two over the years - and some others!), FIFA is just a long way ahead at the moment. To try and justify this a little, I felt the same about Pro Evo 3 or 4 years ago. But EA have upped their game culminating in 09 - the best effort thus far.
So I still like the accuracy in the player detail (stats n'all) of FIFA, always have and the addition of the Adidas update facility has made this better still - to my mind - as now player form is up to date on a week to week basis. Yet to see how this really pans out long term, but the idea is good and it's simple.
What was great about Pro Evo (assuming that's your alternative)? It always had to be the game play, it just used to work so much better than FIFA (despite the fancy stuff EA used to throw in. But here we come to the crux of why I think FIFA's number one - for the first time I think I can honestly say that FIFA's game play is a long way ahead. That's partly because EA have sharpened up (heading seems much more real, and I agree with them that goalkeepers have improved). I also found 08's shooting fun, but unreal. That's gone now, I'm not 100% convinced yet but it's better.
But as I say, I think Pro Evo has gone backwards on the gameplay front - which is disappointing. If I were being harsh I'd compare it to Actua Soccer in the mid-90s (which I disliked at the time). It just doesn't work, for me at least - the players feel blocky and I just found the whole Pro Evo experience disappointing. They seem to have spent more time stylising splash screens than developing the game.
Still, this is about FIFA. Both games now offer up an equivalent mode where you can take a single player through the ranks to glory. In fairness, I've not tried this on Pro Evo, but it works well on FIFA. It gives the 'Be a Pro' mode a bit of a point - which it previously lacked.
All in all, I'd say with some slightly improved graphics (which is kinda taken as read), player movement, the re-introduction of power bars for passing (so my lobbed through balls don't always run through to the keeper!), a great selection of stats, the ever solid manager mode and the new Be A Pro features - I'd say FIFA 09 is THE football game for the year... well if you exclude the discovery of the original Sensible World of Soccer on XBOX ;-)
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