| FIFA 2001 A very familiar face comes back to your Playstation, but will you be able to be bothered to play this for the 100th time? FIFA has always been one of the highlights of the football genre, but over the years it has become nothing more then a cash cow, every year it came and with each new football season a new FIFA game came along with it, complete with a few tweaks here and there, these tweaks certainly improved the game-play in many ways but if you owned any of the prequels and you bought the follow up you were basically buying an update, so do you want to know if FIFA 2001 follows the same path, read on then. The game is presented beautifully with new nice looking menus, which at first are tough to get around, and a cool opening sequence. The screens are well designed and presentation can certainly make all the difference to a game. All the same modes and cups are here for you to try out your skills out on, the best again being the two player mode, as on the one-player modes the computer is either too easy or too hard to beat on the various difficultly settings. So how does it play? What a surprise it plays like another football game called FIFA 2000, but what�s new? Well the keepers have some new animations which make them slightly harder to beat, the new Animations are a good tweak to the game and look perfect, but what else is new? Improved defences make for a more realistic beautiful game with the back players tighter then ever before, plus almost all new commentary from John Motson and Mark Lawrenceson, they chat about a load of things on the pitch this time around, and there is plenty of amusing but not very funny humour in there and it works well and follows the exact on-screen action which is playing out in front of you, the commentary is certainly up there with the best. All the 2001 squads seem to be in there and this has always been one of FIFA�S strong points, shame each one doesn�t have their real life skills though, that would be so cool. The sound effects have been totally reproduced, with each sliding tackle sounding like a punch from a Rocky film, very unrealistic, but it sounds cool anyway, so no complaining there. So should you buy it? The answer is no if you own any of the other lot (and most idiot�s do) so the people who do, I recommend you at least rent it, the people who haven�t bought any of the other�s and might want FIFA to join your collection, buy this one, its good if you have never played other FIFA�S but if you have and you buy this, you will end up acting like a footballer and spitting on it.Simon Wigham 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 |