6/12/2023 0 Comments Fifa 09 cover![]() By this point, though, they’re pretty much being used as signifier and need nothing more than that: here is a FIFA game, immediately identifiable as such, with a bigger number than last year’s. In fact, the more you look at them in any detail, the worse they look, with the washed out look of Rooney’s shirt not matching anything and his sleeve having been hacked out of an original photo particularly crudely. There is no kind of special effect applied to the photos. Yet again, it’s Wayne Rooney and Ronaldinho, though with the latter now a Milan player rather than a Barcelona one. In FIFA 09, you get to command the moment and the emotion, and to pull off some fighting game style combos to do so. In previous games when you scored a goal you would get a cutscene of happy players and basically tune out and wait for the replay. ![]() I am talking, of course, about controllable goal celebrations. The way the stadium and crowd pop in is always a happy moment.įinally, there is a change which is completely meaningless to any point of the match in which the ball is in play, and yet feels like the single biggest factor in bringing it up to the feel of a modern FIFA game. If coming from the PS2, the menu system carried on from FIFA 08 is also a big new one, with the opportunity to mess around on the training ground as matches load a particularly welcome one. The skill moves from holding down LT and moving the right stick in various patterns also get further refined. a bunch of stuff not really noticeable except in collective feel. The back of the box trumpets custom team tactics and “true football simulation” with an emphasis on one-touch stuff, i.e. This is also another game which I played thoroughly at the time. ![]() But a significant proportion of players would have been coming from PS2, so that comparison is still an interesting one. As well as playing FIFA 09 on the Xbox 360, I bought myself a copy of FIFA 08 on the same (it cost 50p, this is how it is with old FIFAs) to confirm that most of its changes had already been introduced before it. 2008 is when the HD versions of the Big Two football games finally overcame the lasting momentum of the PS2 to became the leading versions.
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