FIFA Soccer 2002
by EA Sports
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Video Game Reviews of FIFA Soccer 2002
Customer Review: Fall from Grace
Summary: 2 Stars
Why can't we finally get a defintive FIFA game? This game is loaded with problems.1. Teams...
Yeah, I know that there are hundreds of club teams, but in "1998 Road to the World Cup," EA sports managed to include EVERY team in the qualifying rounds. They even had the names of all they players! You could even play Puerto Rico vs. Domincan Republic. Now, the African and Oceania groups are AWOL, and many players names are represented by numbers.
2. Stadiums...
Only five! In "1998," there was stadiums from all over the world with intro videos to the country. Match-ups between smaller teams had smaller crowds. It was much more realistic to use the "Trinidad & Tobago" stadium when using smaller clubs. I just can't play MLS games in "2002" in front of 80,000 fans. It just doesn't seem believable. Plus, you don't have a consistent stadium for your "home" club games.
3. AI
Unfair and unrealistic. You have a choice: you can either blow away competition at the "Amateur" level, or you can lose 1-0 moral victories in which your team manages 2 shots on goal. I'm afraid to try the "World Class." The computer anticipates all of your passes, wins 90% of the air balls, and makes it generally impossible for you to get any offensive flow.
4. Gameplay
Ohh, this burns me. A lot of the skill moves in the past apparently are not available. For example, you can no longer dive to draw fouls. Everytime the computer falls after a sliding tackle is a foul. It's so irritating. The players only shoot with one foot.
Yes, there are improvements, but in some ways this game feels like a step backward. With the World Cup in the near future, we deserved something better.
Don't believe the hype. Don't waste your money.
Customer Review: bad release
Summary: 1 Stars
I haven't actually played this game! I bought it, installed it on my laptop (compaq presario 1700, windows me) and I can't run it, I get a weird error. So I contact customer support who tell me to check my device drivers, which I do, and still the same problem. They tell me they can't help me, because it's a laptop. I decide to install the game on my work pc running windows2000professional, and I get a different error! Well, that was not much fun. I think I will get fifa2001 as it gets much better reviews here than this version anyway--I just wish I read these reviews before buying the game.Customer Review: Not Bad
Summary: 3 Stars
Not bad; the best since FIFA 98 RTWC...Cheezy that they leave out the actual World Cup; rather the game just allows World Cup Qualifying (although the Custom tournament mode allows fo rthe creation of a World Cup, but the lack of African teams disturbs me greatly...again, though, I can "create" them too if I want...all this is because, like EA's World Cup 98, they will be putting out a game just prior to World Cup 2002 that will focus upon the teams and venuew fro specifically World Cup...but still...)the graphics are okay; with a GeForce 3 they are superb. Crowd reactions were supposed to be revamped; if they were, I don't really see it.
Gameplay is very good, except that the passing model, while much better, is a little artificially achieved in that one must be at one of the eight gamepad angles to effectively deliver a pass (no analog). Other than that, the adjustability of the experience is a key update.
Not bad; much MUCH better than FIFA 2000 and 2001.
Customer Review: Same old stuff
Summary: 2 Stars
My main grudge against the game is AI that isn't playing by the same rules as a human player. Almost any pass AI makes is on target, so the new revolutionary passing system is nothing more but a AI cheat. AI defenders always run as fast as my strikers even if their speed rating is twice less. Marking is unheard of, my defenders stand around like dummies and wouldn't even attempt to make a tackle on their own. Defending against the corners is impossible (again what happened to marking of FIFA 2001??), as well as free kicks,and so on. This list can go on forever.Don't buy this game, unless of course you like playing a cheating AI.
Customer Review: WOW, a hole other ball game!
Summary: 5 Stars
No punn intended, but this time around they really revamped the game. The style of play has changed, now you don't need to do the bicycle kick anymore more in order to score, matter of fact attempting one is not easy. Also the passing game is a hole other story...its not easy, but once you figure it out its a whole lot more fun. The realism in this game is quite unreal. The player movement has much improved. Shooting goals has taken on a new face, now you can do beautiful long and short shots, soft touches and nerve recking lobs...its as if I was watching it on TV. I love football (thats how we call it in europe...what is soccer anyways), and I salut any effort to bring the game into my house on such a level. Keep going EASports!