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 Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:10 am Post subject: FIFA 06 Review |
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| FIFA 06 Review by Matt |  | | Xbox Review: FIFA falls further behind the competition. | | [View Article] |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:32 am Post subject: |
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Yes the gaming industry is corrupt, I offered Matt $20 to give this a 4, but he is such a top bloke he wouldnt take it 
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I'm reviewing this game too, and I thought I was going crazy because I get the framerate hit too!
this is the first review I've found so far that mentions the drop in frame rate when the ball goes to midfield, and I suspect it's a NTSC > PAL conversion issue (unless the other websites were paid off by EA  ) as it appears less noticable if you set your xbox to PAL 50, although it definately is still there.
With the ball control, I found it a lot better than previous versions, and whilst it is easy to lose the ball, it's not hard to get the ball off the AI - if you realise that you have to "nudge" them with the right joystick.
Also, gotta disagree about the crowd noise - I think it sounds superb.
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| Quote: | Sound:
EA Trax selection is good, and the all new commentary team keeps things fresh for a while, but sound from the stadium and the field is all but absent - the crowd sounds like they're at a funeral. |
WTF? Are we playing the same game? As if they're at a funeral? The crowd is great and they react to different situations, depending if you're away or at your home stadium.
I found this review to be quite biased. Such a low low score, despite the game getting good reviews just about everywhere. Sure it's not great, but surely it doesn't deserve a 5.
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| Quote: | | WTF? Are we playing the same game? As if they're at a funeral? The crowd is great and they react to different situations, depending if you're away or at your home stadium. |
Not the case for me - tried everything from home and away games to throwing it into 5.1, couldn't hear more than a few murmurs. Final retail copy of the game too, so it's not just mine.
| Quote: | | I found this review to be quite biased. Such a low low score, despite the game getting good reviews just about everywhere. Sure it's not great, but surely it doesn't deserve a 5. |
FIFA 2005 was progression, 2006 is regression. I punish regression - you should know by now that I am much tougher and hold games to a higher standard than many other reviewers out there. The other reviewers were too soft - raised most of the same points as I did yet copped out with scores of 7 and 8. Obviously, the generous scoring of other websites and magazines has skewed everybody's perception of what an average to bad score really is.
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[quote="Matt"] | Quote: | | The other reviewers were too soft - raised most of the same points as I did yet copped out with scores of 7 and 8. Obviously, the generous scoring of other websites and magazines has skewed everybody's perception of what an average to bad score really is. |
Agreed.
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i havn't played this game but the graphics look really really good
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HeHeHe depends who pays the bills I suppose.
I'm sure EA have a few popular gaming web sites in their back pocket  .
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