Hedfix wrote:
> It's football.
>
> What do you want: pom-poms and glitter?

EA can manage it..why can't Konami?

The Faces look good, but the overall graphics look rather bland.

Yep, it's so good, Viera still plays for Arsenal ;).

Hedfix wrote:
> Yeah, you just like the business model that allows this crap to be the
> success it is. ;P

I don't like the business model, but it is the business model which is most successful in the industry and no one can take anything away from that as an achievment in it's own right :D.

I haven't bought a FIFA game for some time, but I do love their presentation, and I don't think they're that bad.

As a videogame, it's superior to PES in every way; presentation, graphics, audio, licensing... it's simply amazing.  It will always outsell PES on this alone, simply because it gives you the chance to play as your team, with proper likenesses, names, kits and so on.  And it doesn't usually play that bad a game of footy, either.

I mean, let's face it - though it has improved, PES is still a fairly ugly game, isn't it?  Menus are pretty poor in both graphics and presentation.  A lot of screens are cluttered with stacks of information, presented in large and untidy fonts, and there's just so much that isn't clearly explained in the manual.

The game that it plays is really the only thing PES has going for it.  Yes, I know that's "all that matters", but if any other game was presented as badly, it would be slated by the critics and punters alike, and be launched directly into Bargain Buckets at £19.99.

Wouildn't buy FIFA even if paid....

It'll be exactly the same.

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Just read this hands-on preview from Gamespot and this year FIFA might actually be worth checking out. They apparently got rid of 3/4s of last years developing team and replaced them with a new on. They've also mentioned how the focus this year was to make it feel more like football. There was no big graphical update, no hyped new feature such as off the ball and first touch as they had the last two years, but they concentrated on the basics. The tackling, the dribbling, the passing, the shooting. All these are now less AI-assisted, more free-form like PES.

Read the link above and watch the video.

I wont keep my hopes up, but FIFA 06 could actually be good this year.

I hope so anyway.