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bigred3

Youth Team
here are my thoughts on euro 2004 by ea sports

i was a little nervous at first reading other peroples posts about the demo, it seems alot of people don't like it! , but after playing it now for about 45mins i can safely say that i really really really LIKE this game .....

i find shooting better , goalies better , crowd much better , u can now do special moves to move away from defender...

i really think fifa looked at how pes3/we7 are made because i have played both and i think they match up fairly well with konamni(i give pes3 a slight edge) ..

i also found it very neat when i was getting close the box i press down on the long pass button very quickly and it did like a chip shot over the defenders head bounced and went do henry , i liek this option of it not auto going to a player .......

if there is one think i would change tho it would be goalie nets when you score the net doesn't move like it should, but hey someone will release a patch ...

all in all i give this demo a 9/10 i feel ea sports has come along way and they can only get better , i now wait for the full version euro and im eagerly awaiting for october when ea release fifa 2005 :)

p.s. i typed this very fast cause i wanna get back to game , if you have something add please do so...

thanks
bigred
 
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wabberXP

Club Supporter
I like it too,
I believe it's better than FIFA 2004, the passing has improved, and as you said, now you can pass the defender with skill moves.
I feel like I have more space to run and more time to take action, opposite to FIFA 2004, where I should do everything quickly with no time.
the game needs some final touches though.
I think there are two disadvantages,
1- playing with the keyboard.
2- It's a demo ( not the full version ).
so, when the full version is released, these disadvantages will go away :p
I give the demo 8.5/10 ( 9/10 for the full version, hopefully )
 
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bigred3

Youth Team
yes mate i agree i found i had alot of time to pass the ball , around , i really like the chip shot "ballon ball" pass i'm so excited about the real game in 17 days
 
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ngyc

Fan Favourite
i did play the demo. i feel it quite all right. graphics, gameplay all not bad. few disadvantages:

1. passing. sometimes do feel it wrongly pass, while press up + right, it sometimes do pass to right only.

2. set pieces. like fifa2004, i does not like the way they taking corner. i want something more custom, but not limited by 1,2,3. and the defender in the penalty box just like idiot, didn't move at all. freekick sometimes is quite stupid, when you get foul at the area near corner, it give you a direct freekick, that was impossible to put the ball in unless............fluke it in. basically i like the set pieces in PES3, it is more custom and you can do what ever you like, pass, shot, lob or anything

basically just this 2 bad points. this just a demo, cannot judge the final product completely. i'll give 7/10 for this demo
 
Keegan

Keegan

Yardie
I think the demo was quite playable. I think an effort was made to improve the gameplay this time around and there were a few pleasant surprises for me in this demo - first of which was the fact that you can choose from three teams in the demo... I downloaded the Eng/Fra demo and found that I could use Portugal as well. Not bad... then there is the fact that EA have FINALLY changed the boot model. That was the first thing I looked at when I got the demo, and as you can see from my boot thread, I gave it a go straight away. Then, while playing, there were some skill moves and reactions to players clashes that were good to see. There was one occasion where I was upended by a defender and was waiting on the Ref to blow the whistle (silly me!:D ) and the Ref did nothing of the sort... again, good stuff. I have high hopes for Fifa 2005, I may not go out to get Euro 2004 as a Concacaf Man and Concacaf/South America fan, but it does have the makings of a good footy game, imho. (So now I need to get this boot model into Fifa 2004 as I wait patiently on Fifa 2005...)
 
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TristanAbbott7

Starting XI
Ha ha! Oh my goodness, this game is horrible. I downloaded it with the intent to write an in-depth review for an article but after a few games I just gave up (and not because I struggled at it - I won 5-1 and 4-0).

Other than the cut scenes (where the faces are great but the uniforms are horrible - why are the badges and uniforms so ugly, they look worse than they did 5 years ago?) the game looks like FIFA 2000. For real, nobody can look at the players moving on the field and tell me that's 4 or 5 years progress down the road from FIFA 2000!!!

The gameplay is a slight improvement over FIFA 2004 except the ability to be able to clear the ball perfectly while facing the other direction in a split second. The goals are possibly the worst textures and badly to scale since FIFA 1999.

FIFA 98 RTWC still kicks this games butt. Nice faces in the game but that's it. Really, take away those and you'd think you went back in time.

As for the guy who says this is close to PES3, you are seriously dreaming. The gameplay isn't as good as International Superstar Soccer on the Nintendo 64 from 8 years ago.
 
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Killua

Club Supporter
few bad things i've noticed. Of course please correct me if i'm wrong.

- Apparently whoever taking the corner kick doesn't matter... what matters is the one on the receiving end.

- When a free kick is given within range... I have to shoot. I can't pass...?

- The freekick system is still bad. I want to play soccer.. not golf. (some ppl like it, i don't)

- the 3d models are great. They got the proportions right unlike previous fifas.. but the textures are worse than counter-strike from 3 years ago. Still using the same gloves for 4 years heh.

- Stats... how come Zidane can run so fast! And all player's responsiveness seems the same... I expect Henry's dribbling the ball and turning in a different direction faster than Gary Neville.

- In cutscenes, the player shows different emotions. In replays, he's smiling when he fell to the ground.
 
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ngyc

Fan Favourite
yeah, agreed too. the uniform really have a bad look seriously said and the crowd are "improved" but i saw half body crowd
 
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ngyc

Fan Favourite
Originally posted by Killua
few bad things i've noticed. Of course please correct me if i'm wrong.

- Apparently whoever taking the corner kick doesn't matter... what matters is the one on the receiving end.

- When a free kick is given within range... I have to shoot. I can't pass...?

- The freekick system is still bad. I want to play soccer.. not golf. (some ppl like it, i don't)

- the 3d models are great. They got the proportions right unlike previous fifas.. but the textures are worse than counter-strike from 3 years ago. Still using the same gloves for 4 years heh.

- Stats... how come Zidane can run so fast! And all player's responsiveness seems the same... I expect Henry's dribbling the ball and turning in a different direction faster than Gary Neville.

- In cutscenes, the player shows different emotions. In replays, he's smiling when he fell to the ground.
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-yaya...only 3 person in the penalty box are assigned to receive. and when computer taking corner, you just sit at there and look. got 99% it couldn't went it

-yaya...may be they thought everybody are roberto carlos, able to score from 0 degree

-seriously said i prefer custom freekick, like PES3

-i still prefer FIFA2003 graphics, even though the environment are looking good but the player body and kits are horrible

-this prove again player stats does not affect the game

-about facing impression....emmm not really notice since it not the biggest issue in the game

i got a question:
does this time, away team shirt will get dirty???? anybody notice? cause in FIFA2004, it won't get a dirt at all
 
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Leyther

Youth Team
Originally posted by TristanAbbott7
Ha ha! Oh my goodness, this game is horrible. I downloaded it with the intent to write an in-depth review for an article but after a few games I just gave up (and not because I struggled at it - I won 5-1 and 4-0).

Other than the cut scenes (where the faces are great but the uniforms are horrible - why are the badges and uniforms so ugly, they look worse than they did 5 years ago?) the game looks like FIFA 2000. For real, nobody can look at the players moving on the field and tell me that's 4 or 5 years progress down the road from FIFA 2000!!!

The gameplay is a slight improvement over FIFA 2004 except the ability to be able to clear the ball perfectly while facing the other direction in a split second. The goals are possibly the worst textures and badly to scale since FIFA 1999.

FIFA 98 RTWC still kicks this games butt. Nice faces in the game but that's it. Really, take away those and you'd think you went back in time.

As for the guy who says this is close to PES3, you are seriously dreaming. The gameplay isn't as good as International Superstar Soccer on the Nintendo 64 from 8 years ago.
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I probably seem very lazy not giving an account of my own but after playing the demo the above pretty much sums up my view. I haven't played FIFA 2000 for the PC but I would say that FIFA 2001 is graphically superior to Euro 2004, the only aesthetic feature Euro 2004 has over FIFA 2001 is the player faces and perhaps the crowd
 
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PaPaGeorGeo

Fan Favourite
Originally posted by TristanAbbott7

As for the guy who says this is close to PES3, you are seriously dreaming. The gameplay isn't as good as International Superstar Soccer on the Nintendo 64 from 8 years ago.
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ISS on 64 was the best soccer game ever
 
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ishan1990

Senior Squad
one of the bigger differences i noticed is i cant power up my through pass. I just press it and its like a normal pass except it goes into space. I dont like that very much. It also makes the gameplay faster, maybe a bit too fast. But the game is deffinately improved over 2004. I'm still debating whether to buy it
 
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