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Everyone likes a bit of Samba. This is EA's first outing on the PS3 for their urban depiction of the great game on 18th March 2008. It is almost the Brazilian take on the football scene. It has every trick and flick possible under the sun; a game that is to be taken lightly.

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FIFA Street 3 Review

FIFA Street 3 Review

The great English Game with a Samba beat.

Graphics and Presentation

FIFA Street 3 is not your typical football game, sure it’s got all the moves and some of the scenes are idyllic and picturesque. This is not what the game is about. The locations in which the game is played are reasonable. However there are some flaws; the focus of this game is not the graphics, so for what it is the graphics are reasonable.

The characters in this game are (I use this word quite profusely) “imaginative”. As mentioned before this is not a serious game so therefore the features of each individual player are exaggerated. From Rooney’s bull like frame to Crouches gangly features that look like they are going to break at the sight of a football. They all add to the game and are quite funny as this is what is intended, if crouch actually looked like that there is no way he would be able to hold that big head of his up, so from that respect I like the game as it adds an element of “I want to play some mutant football”.

Sound

The soundtrack to this game is for want of a better word ‘cool’. It is continuously engrossed in the Samba beats with a mixture of up to date Hip-Hop samples. As the game goes on you realise that the soundtrack is in tune with how the game is going. The breaks in the music only wane when the game has come to a dramatic climax and you are waiting for the final whistle with baited breath.

The players also play their part, as you play, your team mates call enthusiastically as they want a chance to show what they can do.

As with everything else this is good for the first few plays then it tends to become a bit repetitive as they lack the necessary vocabulary to function in the outside world.

Gameplay

FIFA Street 3’s release back on 18th March 2008 was designed to be a game that was to take a lighter look at the footballing world rather than the likes of FIFA 09 or PES 09. You start off with the enthusiasm of a little kid at Christmas (especially if you had played the previous attempts for the Playstation 2). Filled with anticipation as to what they have improved on, as it was quite a popular game for the PS2.

The controls are completely different than what you are used to, so this takes a bit of getting used to, as there are certain buttons that you do not use in ‘serious’ footballing games. The right analogue stick is assigned to all the trickery of Ronaldo with a little bit of Paul Daniels thrown in. It allows you to do leg twisting drag backs and flick arounds and sometimes you have the ability to embarrass your opposition by constantly passing it threw their legs and always collecting it.

The opposition are somewhat useless to this manoeuvre as the only form of tackling they have at their disposal is a slight shove (fair of course) of the ball and an exaggerated low sweep. So therefore they are at your mercy. However when the football boot is on the other foot, the game can have you breaking the controller in frustration. It is obvious from the off set that this game is aimed at attacking rather than defending.

Another feature that is frustrating but a bit easier to deal with is the triangle button. This allows you to juggle the ball and run freely with the ball in mid air and your opposition left in your wake. There are different types of juggles to do, you can simply use your feet or if you are a pro you can act like a seal and just use your head, the art is to scoop the ball using triangle and this continually scoops the ball over the defenders head which they are powerless to.

There are certain classifications of players in the game as well, four actually, Playmakers, Powerhouses, Defenders and Strikers. This allows for the best team selection to cope with the opposition, what is good is there are certain players that are irresistible when they play and you cannot drop them and there are others that you can just take or leave.

The game offers a lot to a group of lads that just want a mess about and a laugh as the multiplayer function is to me what the game should be about. It offers initially a lot of entertainment, once you have mastered the tricks and flicks it becomes a bit repetitive and mundane. The one player mode however is a let down and just lacklustre to say the least, it doesn’t offer any sort of a career or create your own player so this to me is just a game that you rent out for a while and return forth with as you will grow quite bored of it within the first couple of plays.

Closing Comments

Although the game has improved upon previous efforts (Fifa Street and Fifa Street 2), I would not personally buy FIFA Street 3 due to the fact it lacks in so many different areas, if you are out for a quirky football game that focuses on style over substance and can get past the game many flaws then there is still some fun to be had, but with so many Football games around now you have the choice of many. FIFA Street 3 is a valiant effort but doesn’t quite make the grade.

2-5
John McGarry

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