Customer Reviews for FIFA 2001

FIFA 2001
by EA Sports

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Video Game Reviews of FIFA 2001

Customer Review: Best soccer game out there on the market
Summary: 5 Stars

Modes: Start by selecting your favorite club or international team or making your own team (kind of a tough option to find but it is in there). From here, take your team into training (great to get a hold of the controls), a league season, a world cup or a customized league season, playoffs or cup.

Gameplay: As realistic as it gets. Movement is nearly flawless. You can play games from about four or five different camera views. I highly suggest the six-button gamepad (like Sidewinder) as the extra moves help with more difficult opponents and levels. You can make your player do bicycle kicks, jukes, dekes, etc. Commentary is almost as the players perform their actions and this adds a huge aspect to this game. Huge plus if you have speakers/sound capabilites to go with this game, in fact this is a must if you ask me.

Options: Many different stadiums and a variety of weather options available. The change in difficulty between levels is challenging but not impossible. Trades possible.

Dislikes: No reconfiguration of the controller. You are stuck with what they give you. Tough if you come from other EA Sports games where you like shoot to always be one button, speed burst a certain button, etc. One other dislike is that often there's a slight lag between when you can get a hold of the player to move him, especially if you are close to a defender. Tough to get your player in position to head the ball.

Other general comments: This game loads much faster than all other EA Sports games I've seen. One other fun suggestion for those of you that already have the game or play to get it: play around with scoring on yourself. The commentator reaction is hilarious and look for the instance where your own player kicks the ball out of his net after the own goal and sort of hurts himself in the groin or leg on the play in doing so.

Customer Review: Exellent game
Summary: 4 Stars

Customer Review: The best FiFA game ever
Summary: 5 Stars

Customer Review: To Break it All Down
Summary: 4 Stars

(Out of 100)

1. Sound- 99 - When your in the game, you will first notice the incredible sound feature of the game. The sound effects are incredible. The sound of cheers after you score, the sound of the bone crunching hits really add to the games perfomence. The commentry is very detailed and they hardly say the same thing in the same game. The theme song of the game is a new FIFA is Bodyrock by Moby. You hear songs more in the game. For example, while you train, you will hear music as you train. But the only doubtfall is that the cheers from YOUR PLAYERS after you score seems to loud and out of place. That happens too with the announcing sometimes when they are agree on someting.

2. Graphics- 98 - Now there is no doubt about it, this is one pretty game. So each of the moves performed are exceptional. But if you really want a even somehow better looking game, you need a 3D accelerator. Without it, you don't have the exact shadows in place, but with some good hardware, it will make your 3D graphics brilliant. Also new, you finally have linesman referees and new stadiums. In the stadiums you have some animated coachs, people, and even camrea men.

3. Gameplay- 95 - The controls are about exactly the same with previous versions of FIFA. Though you can't change the controls, after a while, you get used to them. The moves of the players are each from 6 top players from holland. Another new difference in it you will definently see is that the field is much larger then previous versions of FIFA. This allows more time to think of your next move.

4. Power- 85 - Besides everything, in order to have a decent game. You must, and i mean must, have a decent computer. There have been cases where the game just doesn't start because the processer to low. You need to have a processer with at least 400 mega hertz. Even that will have a couple of freeze frames. Many times everything will be just too slow to deal with. Freeze frames can occur a lot during the game. Just overall, make sure your computer is in fine shape.

OVERALL- 94 - Buy this game

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Customer Review: Read this before you buy
Summary: 2 Stars

I've played quite a few EA FIFA games in the past, including EA World Cup 98. This games plays similarly, but let me skip all the generic stuff you read and get to the point: This game is just really not worth it. The graphics are great, but there's really only 4 or so different stadiums, the tournaments are very limited, and the options on the game in general are almost insulting. I feel like I'm playing a game back in 96 or 97. One major problem I have with this game, and it's rather specific and pointed out in other reviews, is that everytime I cross the ball into the box, your target always goes for a ridiculous bicycle kick! It may seem trivial, but this gets old VERY quickly. No headers, or normal one-timers off the foot, but rather an elaborate bicycle kick that tends to score most times that you connect. It makes me feel like I'm playing one of those kiddie 2-on-2 extreme basketball games where the ball catches on fire and the players are doing flips before each earth-shattering dunk.

So without getting too long winded, I was pretty disappointed. Don't be pulled in by the great graphics - and they are pretty cool - because the playability is just so ridiculous, and the game play options so limited (even more limited than previous games, which seemed odd to me that they would have not only not progressed, but seemingly reverted back to older versions.)

I hope for the next FIFA release that EA accepts the current graphics as adequate, and spends all their time and energy on upgrading the options and creating a more realistic game.