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EA SPORTS: 2002 FIFA World Cup guide: become a MASTER!!

nickclubman

Starting XI
WC 2002 Guide: EA SPORTS: £50. SPECIAL OFFER!!! Reduced from £150.

Hi, welcome to the EA SPORTS guide for 2002 FIFA World Cup, the game that lets you take part in the only officially licensed game by yours truly EA SPORTS!

You all know the slogan “If it’s in the game, it’s in Pro Evolution Soccer”

Right, well, lets get started.

First of all, this is the most realistic football game ever created by top programmers. It’s sometimes hard to get them to work, so feeding them bananas and letting them swing on the office lights, sometimes makes them get to work faster.

When getting started in a match, try passing the ball round, in fact, ALWAYS try passing the ball round, it’s very fun and relaxing, maybe if you try and pass to your players it would give you a chance, but I’ll get back to that hidden game later.

If you’re standing on the half way line, don’t shoot, you won’t get enough power, or accuracy to beat the goalkeeper, so you should always header the ball, as we at EA SPORTS are dedicated to bringing you the worst ball physics you could ever imagine. You should get the power and the accuracy to beat the goalkeeper. :crazyboy:

By trying to tackle the opposition, it’s always best to slide tackle. Sure you might foul him, but by trying a conservative tackle, you might…foul yourself. Rolling over and over and taking 20 seconds to get back up makes the game, we feel, no one else in the entire universe, but WE as a team feel this makes a game of football more realistic and fun for everyone, especially people who’ve never played football. You don’t think we actually aim our football games at football fans do you? :confused:

We like team kits and licensing, we like it THAT much that we like to make our own kits at times and slap them on players that should be wearing their official kits. It’s something we can’t help, we enjoy it and the Monkeys, I mean programmers find it hard to make all them kits for the teams.

The player faces have improved this year, yep, they are great…we know this makes the gameplay better; cause football isn’t actually that important in a football game, but knowing which player you are controlling is.

I enjoy eating out, don’t you?

Oh, what else do you need to know to become a master of 2002 FIFA World Cup? Oh yeah, shooting, to shoot on target, aim the other way and watch the player turn round and blast it on target. This is really fun, and takes the opposition by surprise. This is the key to shooting, and ads the realism points, up and up, no doubt about that. We know our football; we just don’t like to incorporate the actual football.

Now we thought (when we got bored) that it would be funny to piss you guys off, so we added lots of special little glowing things on players. We couldn’t be mean though, so to make the game more realistic, star players can shoot fire from the balls arse! ;)

Goal keepers are hard to master, so we can’t be bothered with them and besides they aren’t that important, as shots from the opposition usually always go in, so perhaps when the opposition is 1 on 1 with your goalkeeper, call him out. They were going to score anyway.

Try crossing the ball, see what you can do, show off, you know it helps scoring a goal. Maybe if you cross it with a bit more profession. For example; when crossing the ball, don’t actually cross the ball, pass it back and take a nice long range shot, it’s going in!

Have you ever seen a header go faster then a shot, we haven’t so we wanted it in our game!

Thanks for reading; I’m sure if you read this over and over (which you will) then you’ll become a master of 2002 FIFA World Cup in seconds!! :D

Thank you!
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I think this is kind of funny, I get bored. If no one likes it, then I'll delete it, simple as that.

hahaha, it's so funny.

Nick Clubman
 

pokwang

Youth Team
Well...err...I (shamefully:p )liked it. Honest. Cos' it shows that you THINK. Once in a while it nice to see someone from the *ahem* other side of the fence *ahem* starts thinking....unfortunately a lot of people still dont share your feeling. Help them Nick!!! Help them see the light!!!
 

nickclubman

Starting XI
Originally posted by netolegal
hahaha, it's so funny, Im laughing so much, Ill copy this so all my friends can read it....:D :crazyboy:

Thanks.

I also forgot to mention that when you do try the conservative tackle and your player rolls on his arse that the other players like to stop and laugh at him, so that he has the time to get back up and run again, so that the opposition can have a go at tackling him and watch them all come running in, falling on their arse! :D

Then (don't forget, this is EA SPORTS hot info!!! :p), turn around, power up the bar and watch the player swing around, do the moon walk and take a shot. Brilliant to say the least!! :)

Nick Clubman
 

The Drovers Dog

Reserve Team
nickclubman, are you going to spend the next ten years a tweaking up the *.ini files or are you going to switch to console mode and say bollocks to EA. :) A TV card, a PS2, PES,UEFA Challenge,TIF2002 and you should be copping it sweet. Oh mate isn't the Ps2 just great. :) And seriously Wc2002 did look ok for a couple of games untill the gremlins in the game started to rear there ugly heads and take it all back to square one.
 

nickclubman

Starting XI
Originally posted by The Drovers Dog
nickclubman, are you going to spend the next ten years a tweaking up the *.ini files or are you going to switch to console mode and say bollocks to EA. A TV card, a PS2, PES,UEFA Challenge,TIF2002 and you should be copping it sweet. Oh mate isn't the Ps2 just great. And seriously Wc2002 did look ok for a couple of games untill the gremlins in the game started to rear there ugly heads and take it all back to square one.

It’s very true. One minute you're playing the game and thinking:

“Hmmmm, not bad, a big improvement over FIFA 2002, almost a different game”

Then you jump up to header the ball and realise that EA have been watching to much
Star Treck and Star Wars instead of football games :mad: . Then you go for a shot and see a f*cking, fire, farty rainbow thing stuck to the balls behind, seriously UNREALISTIC! :f***:

EA ARE BACKWARDS!! :crazyboy:
And if they play PES, then they should play that, then go back to the mess they made and I bet they say:

“What the f*ck is this piece of ****, put 2002 FIFA World Cup in…Oh wait, ok, ok, lets start again”! :D
 

Alex

sKIp_E
Staff member
Administrator
Super Moderator
The fire thing is just to represent u succesfully pulled off a move by a star.
Just ignore it.
I really think some of u ppl just like bagging EA. They have done really well with WC 2002, and its a vast improvement.
The superheaders seem to be the only problem, but on other version, I ve always been annoyed u couldnt head the ball hard enough..
Anyway if all ur gonna do is whinge, then why the fuk do u bother coming here?
 

tonytobas1

Youth Team
seems EA's on their way to making Fifa 2003 a 'arcade' game...maybe we'll see the goalkeepers hand smoking after parrying a 'scorcher' lol or a question mark being placed over a player's head after he's been nutmegged...my view is that if they want to make an arcade game...make it and leave it to the Yanks...other people play EA cause we want simulation...got that EA?????
 

TristanAbbott7

Starting XI
Not accurate!

Sorry Nick but you missed out too many important facts to make the guide accurate. Remember, if it's in the game... we've pretty much screwed it up.

(1) You forgot the 'activate light sabre' sound effects just like in real soccer when a star player shoots the ball. Many a time have I been playing soccer with my friends when one of them has shot the ball and a space age whoosh sound has filled the air leaving us all looking up at the skies to find the source of the sound when all along it was the ball.

(2) Magic goalkeepers with eyes in the back of their heads. The ability to be able to face away from the shooting playing and punching the ball over the bar as you jump towards the goal is an under-rated feature of the game. We've all seen goalkeepers in the premiership and the top leagues use this week after week. Stuff catching an easy ball, simply turn away from the ball and just as it comes to catching height punch it towards your goal giving the impression you're trying to score but watch as it just goes over the bar.

(3) Drunk tackling. Rather than shoulder barging for the ball, simply stagger as though you were drunk and try to make the opposition fall off the ball laughing. With practice you can use the 'drunken master' technique from further than the human leg can stretch. Watch as you cause the player with the ball to falter in his steps as you use your powers from ten yards away.

(4) What is harder? Putting in a half-decent cross or trying not to curl the ball every pass, even over 5 yards? The two goals I've actually scored from crosses out of my, oh, 20,000 attempts have been very satisfying. Contrast with Fifa 2001 where every corner and cross was a guranteed goal.

(5) Mascots with the power to annoy you without doing anything in particular. Improve the graphics of the gameplay or sideline managers and stewards or even the crowd or waste some good graphics power on some bloody floating aliens. Maybe the spaceship keeps coming to cliam them every time a shot is made but the ball is so dang fast the ships can't land fast enough.

(6) Simply import the crows graphics from soccer games from the late 80's such as the ZX Spectrum or BBC computer. Don't worry that we've made the players look so realistic that you can at last recognise them by sight, just take notice of the 'anybody could draw this in five seconds on photoshop' approach to crowd animations. Remember that in real soccer every crowd member looks identical and move in identical patterns for the full 90 minutes.

(7) Crowd cheers must be random and become louder and quieter at unsuitable points in the game. Listen as a deathly silence falls as your ioffense builds up an attack, oh the anticipation. Listen as the crowd roars as you pass the ball between two fo your defenders. Celebrate every goal, even your 10th with streamers and confetti like you'd just won the world cup.

(8) Even if your ten goals down and you pull a goal back with less than a minute to go, have your players go mad like they've just won the world cup. Dance and fall all over the place and forget the fact you've been humiliated on the field. Remember, every goal is a sign to joyfully celebrate for a long time as if Britney's just called you out on a date and you're 'on a promise'!

(9) Have referees who can spot infringements that happen behind them just like in the real game. Don't bother having referees who turn round to view the action. Use the patented 'goalkeeper eyes in the back of the head' technique with the referees also.

(10) Have the linemen point the wrong way for throw ins occasionally and frequently raise the hand without the flag in it as if you've forgotten which dang hand the flag was in. Good for chuckles.

Anyway, I hope this will have added to your guide to Fifa World Cup Soccer.
 

nickclubman

Starting XI
Originally posted by sKIp_E
The fire thing is just to represent u succesfully pulled off a move by a star.
Just ignore it.
I really think some of u ppl just like bagging EA. They have done really well with WC 2002, and its a vast improvement.
The superheaders seem to be the only problem, but on other version, I ve always been annoyed u couldnt head the ball hard enough..
Anyway if all ur gonna do is whinge, then why the fuk do u bother coming here?


I have to admit it, the thread started by me, wasn't really serious, I don't hate 2002 FIFA World Cup and enjoy some of the matches played, but I really do get pissed off by star players been able to score so damn easily (Zidane!) far out, and those super headers which are faster than shots. :f***:

I'll still come to this forum, some topics are interesting (like mine :p) and I enjoy the little arguments and fun times. It's also cool when you get the info on the latest downloads before anyone else!! ;)

Nick Clubman
 

The Drovers Dog

Reserve Team
sKIp_E, mate, i don't really think that the guys in here hammer away at EA for no reason, just about everything that is posted in here is true, Fifa 98 was the last game that they did that resembled a footy game, and ever since then there has never ever been a 100% Fifa release from them, and even tho' EA are aware of the in game problems they hardly ever make any honest attempt to fix them up, they never post any practical info up on there main web site apart from the usuall "original' passing systems and now the "Air play" system that is in WC2002, will they try to fix up the horrific headers and volleys in this new game? Doubt it very much, but it will be fixed up in the 2003 version, we promise, but then we all expect more glitches and niggles that only EA seem to very good at, the posts in here are mainly light hearted and have a funny side to them which is fine and as it should be, and if we don't have a little bit of fun and some friendly ragging things would soon start to get very ugly indeed. WC 2002 has some very nice points, but it is still an unfinished and bodgy release from a huge Company who should be setting a Footy gaming standard for all the rest to follow. You start to play a game, you plan the build up, you call players up to make a run, the AI clears the ball, up goes a defender or a midfielder with all the intent to check the ball as it comes down and then work a soft touch on to any support player, but, but, the way that this game is set up, in that situation the ball seems to have a mind of its own and is virtually uncontrolable as it screams away in any direction but the one that you intended, mate, no player can enjoy or play a decent game of cyber footy while ever these bugs are in the game, and this applies to some of the junk that other companys have also churned out in the past few years.
 


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