Good, hard fun

This game is amazing.It is definitely better than the first.The Isometric view works out pretty well.The only problem with it is that you won't sneak up on any body on multi-player.The graphics uses rag-doll physics which looks absolutely fantastic!The sound sounds great also.

This is the first PSP game that seemed that you could almost everything,like access Killzone.com from the game.There is plenty of things to collect like money for more weapons and upgrades.You can play challenges and if you get could on them you will get a gold medal and will unlock packs(extra stuff).You can also unlock characters for online by getting to certain points in this game.

The online is good but is also plagued by psp-hackers.It can still be fun without them.It can get laggy sometimes,but its all good here.

This is an awesome game-get it.

Disappointing

have been playing lots of soccer games for years, including several FIFA installments and the only thing that has remotely come close to satisfying me was Konami's old series, some of you may remember under International Superstar Soccer. I have yet to try out PSE (mostly because until recently I had been a Nintendo hardliner) but after this installment of FIFA I am more than just tempted to try next year.

For a series that calls itself soccer simulation, FIFA has so many glaring mistakes that it hurts. I could list probably a lot from previous installments if I could still remember them, but that's not the issue here. So let us start.

The second glaring thing is how the statistics are handled. Last year already I had been pulling my hair out, frustrated that my playmakers and other players would get clear and obvious assists not acknowledged, this year I thought at first it was better but actually I even find myself wondering why no assist was awarded after a corner kick that lands directly on the head of another player and then into the goal... Yes, that really happened to me once.
The idea with best team is basically good... but when you play a team that has several players ranking top with goals, assists and even the rather obscure  and sometimes just as unfair in-game rankings  and none of them even makes best team... I had a player score over a 100 goals, with the topmost ranking average and he neither made best team nor best player. Now what's the use of all this? Nothing. Wasted programming space that could have been used a lot better.

Third. Some other minor things not related to the actual gameplay. Menu navigation is... grueling. Mostly I mean the inability to scroll better and faster. The least they could have done was to be able to better and faster scroll through your team when you substitute players. All you can do is go one space up or down and you can't even get from the top of the page to the bottom. If you play with two balanced teams (necessary with the fatigue issue in the lower English leagues) that you continuously rotate, it always takes a long time to change your entire team. I am not even going to go into how ridiculous often the game feels the need to prompt you to/automatically saves...
Transfers and contracts are too easy to. \
And the emails? There is hardly anything new in terms of messages you get after a game compared to last year and they can get pretty repetitive.
I could probably go on and on about the many statistical and other mistakes related to manager mode. But allow me just one more anecdote that really got me shaking my head wondering who could program something like this. I noticed it when I had just finished second league in England (the one before making Premiere League) with my team, winning about everything. Then I look at the screen at the end with the team making it to Champions League and UEFA cup. The first seemed okay, the second was mine... and the first teams of the second English league I just finished... Excuse me?!? (and no, none of them were in a cup final with me) That is just horrible!

Now, some issue with the actual game play. I think it has been suggested by others already that sometimes you can spent an eternity running after an opponent trying to get the ball while your own players often lose it as soon as they get it.
What really bugs me is when my players run into each others way and cause the dribbling player to lose the ball and ruin a perfectly good chance as if everyone on your team is blind and can't see straight ahead when a teammate comes dribbling with a ball.

To end this review, I may actually name some of the good things. The graphic as should be expected is great. The sound is okay but I still wish the fan reactions were a little more in tune with the gameplay, like the home crowd reacting to situations. What I would like for example is that in a close game with the other team leading one goal or so that they start cheering and nagging your team on more enthusiastically.
The formation editor finally allows some more flexibility to create your own favorite formations, something I really liked from earlier ISS games and that has been far too static in earlier FIFA installments.
The new player evolvement gives you a lot more control than last years automatic evolvement which barely advanced your players at all.

All in all. FIFA 08 is a game that resembles more an arcade soccer game than being allowed to call itself simulation. For that there are too many glaring errors that even players only remotely apt in statistic, playing schedules etc. can pick out. Most of these issues are just simply sloppy since I doubt it can be that hard to program standards and rules that are strictly regulated on how to form a Champions League or how to draw the final rounds. No one can tell me that is impossible to program.
Graphic-wise it's a good game, to a point where it seems that far too much time has been spent in making the actual gameplay look realistic while being sloppy with the rest. I would actually consider the gameplay smooth if not for your players running into each other or the opponent stringing your players after them in half minute or more long efforts to get the ball without really advancing to the goal most of the time!

All this makes FIFA 08 sometimes fun to play but even more often rather frustrating because you would play like you always do but nothing seems to be working. EA can and should do better. Unfortunately I have been waiting for that to happen for years now... I think next year I have waited long enough and try out something else. A simulation is something else for me, not this game.

This game saved the series

There are many dark games, but none I've played that bring such evil to the table. You can blast zombies or walk around the Asylum chopping up security guards all day, but none of this pulls you so deep into the minds of so thoroughly disturbed individuals. The very nature of games is to pull you into a different world, this game pulls you into a world of supreme insanity. Take the crazy, cannibalistic Mr.Grimm. He killed and ate his friend in the Vietnam war and made a helmet out of his skull. He enters the contest wishing revenge on the torturer who destroyed his mind. The disturbed Preacher killed a young baby, his parents, and many more people when a demon "possessed" him.
He enters seeking the truth. And for the Twisted Metal vets, Sweet Tooth returns, as an evil mass-murderer who survived the electric chair, who enters the contest to relieve himself of his curse of a burning head. Each story delves deep into the characters mind through messages displayed and the amazing cinemas. Story aside for the moment, the gameplay is perfect, hectic and fast-paced. You will get used to it at a moderate pace. Afterwards you will have to contend with the games sloping difficulty, which gets harder every level. Once you get use to THAT you will zoom through a story in about 2 days.

If a dark and insane world combined with fast pace combat is what you want, then play Black, because you won't find a better combination of the two in any other game.

Loved it!Story sucks though

The story is fairly high quality and fun to experience, I'd say if you can make it through the first two or so hours of the game (the tutorial) then you will probably really enjoy this. Combat is fun and you truly feel a sense of progression as you move from location to location and you gain experience and levels.

The only major gripes about this game was that it needed another planet for length(still around 20 hours I just love games that are 24+ hours long though) and the tutorial level is extremely annoying, and cannot be skipped. It took me about two hours at a reasonable pace the first time through the tutorial which is essentially a mini level. I would have also like a little more customization. I felt that my characters were the same every time. Maybe in the third game they could add in a system to color things to customize them, or maybe a crafting system? I would suggest this game and its predecessor Knights of the Old Republic as well, I still go back and play this game often.

Love it or hate it

Very good game that has good gameplay and a huge selection of guns and gear. Has more maps than the second batlefront. the graphics are also good and the ai is exceptionly challenging. But the only downfall is the limited control scheme selection. i wish there was a longer campain and galactic conquest that makes sense. the jedi cmbat is quite boring and gets old very easily. i miss the assault choice on mos eisley. like when you choose heros or villains and battle it out with sabers and blasters. i really like the auto pilot in space combat and it is very effective.overall the grahics gameplay and gear is good