Key Features - Current Gen
Manual Controls
Dictate the play with new manual controls for through-passing and crossing. Control the goalkeeper in one-on-one situations to deny the striker yourself. Use the right-stick to quickly switch to the exact player you want to control when defending.
Be A Pro: Co-op Season
Take on the role of a professional footballer, create your own player and test yourself in one position for an entire season. Master positioning, improve your attributes and develop into an elite player. Co-operate with up to three friends fixed to their player on the same team, but compete with those same friends on individual challenges. All performances are tracked through detailed statistics to determine who really is a pro.
Custom Formations
Design your own unique strategy to create the perfect formation and tactics. Set each player’s exact position in the formation, and assign specific attacking and defensive runs to unlock the opposition.
Enhanced AI
New defensive and positioning logic requires greater tactical expertise to break down the opposition New AI ensures players are in the right place at the right time. Player and team traits differentiate the stars.
Manager Mode Improvements
New features include pre-season friendlies to test your team before a campaign, new training options to hone your squad of players and dynamic board expectations that change depending on your successes … or failures.
Online Football Clubs (PlayStation®2)
Form your own group of like-minded football fans to take on all challengers online and create a Football Club. Gain status among the online community by helping your Football Club climb the rankings. Win more points based on the importance of the match, like playing Interactive Leagues or challenging other Football Clubs to a grudge-match tournament.
Share Replays (PC)
Now you can save and show-off your best games or just the highlights! It is easy to capture a game or key moments and export as a video file to share with your friends and foes. Brag about match-winning plays and goals or even capture the entire ninety minutes to relive your favourite games.
Complete Authenticity
Featuring 30 leagues, 30 real stadiums and 14,000 players all accurately recreated.
Key Features - Next Gen
Clinical Finishing
A true next-generation ball-striking engine calculates shot success by combining an almost infinite number of different contexts, including ball spin, pressure from defenders, player attributes, and even air pressure to recreate the drama and unpredictable nature of shooting.
Intelligent Football
Now featuring AI with a 35-point decision engine which enables players to process 1,000 potential options and reactions every second in real time - more than 60,000 options every minute - via a dynamic ‘Threat Map’ system to capture the excitement and realism of football.
Be a Pro: Offline Training
hink and react like a real professional football player. Play the entire game as a fixed player while getting real time feedback and analysis on the fly. A unique camera angle keeps both player and action in focus, zooming in when you’re on attack.
Pro Skills
A new, organic building-block system enables you to combine tricks and skill moves together to recreate signature moves from the real-world superstars or define your own style of play. Animations can be interrupted at any time to transition into a new move, just like real life.
Manual Controls
Dictate the play with new manual controls for through-passing and crossing. Now use the right-stick to quickly switch defenders and choose exactly who you want defending, when you want him.
Online Leagues
Create and organise your own multiplayer Friends Leagues and tournaments with all the tools in-game.
EA SPORTS™ Interactive Leagues
Represent your club online against your rivals throughout the season in the F.A. Premier League, Bundesliga, French League or Mexican 1st Division. Features weekly in-game pod casts by the development team.
Video Upload
Capture your best goals and highlights in-game and bring them online for the world to see. Upload your highlights to the FIFA 08 website to create the ultimate highlight reel to prove the stories you are telling your friends are all true. Because without the footage, it’s fiction.
Real World Football News
Receive up-to-the-minute football news and podcasts from media outlets.
Complete Authenticity
Dramatically more authentic and exhilarating with 620 licensed teams, 30 official leagues, and more than 15,000 players
Tournament Mode
Play 60 tournaments, including 35 officially licensed ones, or create one of your own.
Key Features - Wii™
A New Football Experience
Revolutionary game controls allow you to pass, shoot, and perform skills such as stepovers and drag-backs, all with a flick of the wrist. Dictate the play with new manual controls for through-passing and crossing, or control your goalkeeper in one-on-one situations to deny an onrushing striker.
Footii Party
Play three completely unique Party Games - Juggling, Boot It and Table Football – to unlock Ronaldinho and take on the champ. Have fun and watch the meter count your calories burned.
Juggling
Use your self-created Mii and the Wii remote to see how many times you can juggle the ball. Watch out, though, as opponents can use trick balls and spins to throw you off your game.
Boot It
Play as the goalie or the shooter with up to three friends in a simultaneous shooting frenzy. Use Wii remote gestures for both kicking and saving the ball. Take turns blasting away at targets or go all at once in rapid fire to see who can score the most points. Watch the keeper deflect balls back at you.
Table Football
Enjoy a new twist to an old favorite in our version of Table Football. Use the Wii remote to trap and swing the ball to score and unlock new tables.
Join the Football Academy
Learn the basics by playing 30 interactive tutorials. Each lesson teaches you how to master the motion controls and perform all the necessary movements to dominate on the pitch.
Customisable Formations
Design your own unique strategy to create the perfect formation and tactics, including four-four-two, three-four-three, Christmas tree, diamond formation, and more. Assign roles and move players to the exact position in relation to teammates to undermine the opposition.
Enhanced AI
New defensive AI means that players ensure they’re in the right place at the right time. New player and team traits differentiate the stars
Online Play
Pick your favorite team and go online to challenge a rival squad one-on-one.
Interactive Leagues
Represent your club online against your rivals throughout the season in the F.A. Premier League, Bundesliga, French League or Mexican 1st Division. When they play, you play.
Key Features - PSP®
Manual Controls
New manual controls enable you to dictate the play with control over through-passing and crossing. Control the goalkeeper in one-on-one situations to deny the striker yourself.
Enhanced AI
New defensive and positioning logic requires greater tactical expertise to break down the opposition. New AI ensures players are in the right place at the right time. Player and team traits differentiate the stars.
Custom Formations
Design your own unique strategy to create the perfect formation and tactics. Set each player’s exact position in the formation, and assign specific attacking and defensive runs to unlock the opposition.
Manager Mode Improvements
New features include pre-season friendlies to test your team before a campaign, new training options to hone your squad of players and dynamic board expectations that change depending on your successes … or failures.
Interactive Leagues On The Go!
Play the award-winning Interactive Leagues on the go. Play for your club online against your biggest rivals throughout the season in the F.A. Premier League, Bundesliga, French Ligue 1, and Mexican 1st Division. When they play, you play.
FootballIQ
Test your football knowledge in an all-new Quiz mode featuring thousands of questions from the world of football. Use the points earned for correct answers to buy unlockable content, including third kits, videos, and more from the in-game FIFA 08 store.
Complete Authenticity
Featuring 30 leagues, 30 real stadiums and 12,500 players all accurately re-created.