FIFA Soccer 2003

List Price: $14.99 Discount Price: $7.76

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Customer Reviews:

Worst game of the EA Sports Fifa series [Posted on 2003-08-21]
This is the worst game of the Fifa series.If i remember well they dont even have the national team of Holland,they dont have the dutch league,or Portuguese,yeah,and i think they dont have the national team Portugal.And how can they rate Anderlecht as strong as Man Utd(am a fanatic man utd fan),Real Madrid,Juventus or Milan?And its too easy.And you cant even create players like the other fifa games of EA Sports.It has nothing.What can i do know that i want to create Cristiano Ronaldo that they dont have it?I hope the next years Fifa will be a lot better.It only gets two insteaf of one stars becauce of the graphics.And they still have Sheringham on the England national team.

Boring and repetitive, but nevertheless [Posted on 2003-09-07]
This game seems awesome at first, especially after fifa 2002. Great graphics, more teams, more choices, club championship, lotsa differen cups to play, etc. But then you start noticing things you don't quite like.

I played professional in 2002 and struggled. Probably because I rarely tried to crosses. But nevertheless, a win in professional was very hard for me. In fifa 2003, which is totally different in gameplay, it took me a month of playing (and I was in school - didn't really have time to play much) to get to world class. And that was without using crosses. But about them later.

You start to notice a lot of inconviniences that at first you try not to notice but then start freaking out when it costs you a game and 16 minutes gone for nothing. Example? Sure.
You can't use headers unless challenged by a computer player on the PC. It seems allright but once in a while it happens that after a lob the comp doesn't go for the header, instead he just waits until your player chests it, and then tackles the player as soon as the ball hits the ground. Very frustrating when you were on a attack.

Another great bug is the player selection tool. When a comp is on a breakaway, forget it, there is no way to get him. Because the stupid game selects players BEHIND the opponent. So if you want to tackle him, you gotta do it from behind. The only chance you stand against a breakaway is trying to get the ball in midfield all the time. Because a breakaway in midfield (happens a lot actually) still can be intercepted.

Direction of passes is really weird. When all of your players are in proper position, everything's ok, but when your players are, say, running into position after a free kick and you gotta get the ball out of the box before a swarm of 5 opponent players gets you, you got a problem. For some reason, when not everyone is in their spot, a pass directed straight forward becomes a pass downwards, a pass downwards becomes at different times becomes a pass backwards, forward, up, down, ANYWHERE.
You can argue that you can use a through ball, but it takes too long and you get tackled before that happens.

I've been playing this for about 5 months. First 3 months seemed lotsa fun. I still lost a lot on world class, still was playing cups. But the comp is not challenging anymore. The computer does the same stuff all over again so now I'm able to defeat Real Madrid with my made team (all 30s and 20s in overall skill) 6-1.

The only pleasure in the game are crosses. Crosses are automated, although you have to press down which way to hit the ball to score. There are so many different ways to cross and crossing requires such perfection in world class, that it is very satisfying when you finally score on a cross. But at any rate, this is a game you play for a while and then throw away.

Fifa 2003, not a game that seems to be in 2003... [Posted on 2003-10-08]
Alright, I will tell you a lot of things about this game. I dont think anyone would like this game, as it is a much lower ranking than Fifa 2002 World Cup. I mean longer loading, less goal celebrations, less crowd clapping, etc. The only thing this game has that the older soccer games dont have is somewhat better commentary. If you want a good soccer game, turn to Fifa 002 World Cup, and you can go on there and also read my review for that game (its the somewhat long one), trust me, you will like it a lot more than this game.

Control Bugs Ruined It For Me - BAD game [Posted on 2003-12-07]
Configuring the controls is bugged. I am used to FIFA 2002 controls, and I tried to reconfigure the controls in this game to mimic FIFA 2002, but controls are basically bugged. It SAYS that the "W" is for sprinting in the settings screen, but in the game, it's actually "E".

When you can't even control the game, you won't be able to play it. That's the case for me at least. I will not be buying FIFA 2004 unless I find some indication that they fixed this annoying problem.

Crap [Posted on 2004-04-22]
The software won't install with newer computers (P4-3GHZ, ati radeon 9800 pro, 1GB ram, audigy2 zs). Don't buy this software.

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