FIFA World Cup 2002 is quite simply one of the most exciting
PC sports games ever created.
It wasn't so very long ago that soccer fans
could choose from a variety of PC-based depictions of their favorite sport. Yet
as the last few years of the 20th century fluttered by, it became increasingly
apparent that one title stood tall above the rest. That game was EA Sports'
FIFA Soccer, and today it is virtually the only way to play. With FIFA World
Cup 2002, EA has gone to the well once more, again tweaking its dominant
formula just enough to make an already captive audience think hard about
reenlisting. Sporting several minor gameplay enhancements and a substantially
overhauled presentation that impressively re-creates the global impact of a
World Cup event, this edition of FIFA is in many ways the finest edition of
FIFA yet. Although it revolves completely around the 2002 Japan/Korea World Cup
and as such doesn't deliver the sheer number of players, teams, and league and
tournament options of FIFA's regular annual installments, FIFA World Cup 2002 is
quite simply one of the most exciting PC sports games ever created.
This is no small accomplishment considering how
professionally appointed each previous FIFA has been. Yet when experienced
back-to-back with last year's FIFA Soccer 2002--released a scant six months
ago--FIFA World Cup 2002 is a completely different animal. Starting with the
game's dramatic introductory sequence, you'll sense that EA wanted to unleash
something new. The usual electronic/dance beats of chart-toppers such as Moby
and Ministry of Sound have been exchanged for the powerful strings and
crescendos and kettledrums of the critically acclaimed Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra. The menu system, which surely reached the peak of drabness in last
year's model, is polished, colorful, and presented with pride. The new
"everyone's game" component, wherein you can access real-life
multimedia snippets concerning most every aspect of this year's World Cup, is
especially enjoyable despite its low-grade video quality.
FIFA World Cup 2002 presents 20 Japanese and
Korean stadiums in all, each a seemingly faithful and certainly brilliantly
rendered work of art, and the choice of day or night contests. Interestingly,
the game does not offer inclement weather options. When the sides are selected
and the go-ahead given, you'll take a dizzying ride from the top of the stadium
to pitch level, taking in a profusion of visual treats along the way. Fireworks
explode in the sky, laser effects dance all around, and a surging sea of
spectators rises and falls as one. EA has adopted a high-contrast color palette
for this edition, with greener grass, brighter daylight, darker night skies,
punctuated lighting effects, and more vivid kits and thus has made the game
look far more vibrant and alive than ever before.
RAM= 128MB
Graphics Card= 32MB
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