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Do you like the idea of not just watching but actually participating in the biggest, most-followed single event in the entire world? In 2006 FIFA World Cup, you are at the center of the action with the potential of re-writing history so that your favorite team wins. With thrilling gameplay, top-notch graphics, exciting crowds, and a great set of options, 2006 FIFA World Cup will have you bouncing out of your seat in excitement.
Your gameplay options comprise such real-life soccer staples as quick matches, practice sessions, and penalty shoot-outs, as well a the virtual staple of online play. In addition to these, 2006 FIFA World Cup includes global-challenge scenarios, an excellent FIFA Lounge mode, and the all-important chance to guide your favorite international team to victory in the World Cup competition.
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2006 FIFA World Cup defaults to the semi-pro difficulty, the level at which you will probably quite handily cut through the competition's AI (artificial intelligence) like a hot knife through butter. But the World Cup mode is where most people start, and although its default settings have you assume control of one of the 32 teams that qualified for the finals, it also includes the 95 other teams that didn't make the final cut. You can now begin in the qualifying rounds in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa and Oceania, or jump straight to the final 32 teams using real or randomly generated group information. If you are a veteran soccer player looking for a truly punishing challenge, the unlockable Perfect difficulty level will give you the game of your life.
The player animations in 2006 FIFA World Cup are excellent, and the controls are fully customizable. Although every player on the pitch has a handful of skill moves at his disposal, you'll find that good use of the intuitive first-touch controls, along with passes, through balls, and dummies, are your most reliable means of besting your opponents. The most notable improvements in this version of World Cup soccer are its new star players feature, the new shooting mechanism, and the penalty shootout.
Denoted by a star above their heads, there are two dozen unlockable players that can be inserted onto the bench of their respective national teams and can take over the game in a variety of ways. There are play-making passers like David Beckham, dribblers like Ronaldinho, speedsters like Michael Owen, and shooters like Alessandro Del Piero. Just like in real life, if you are able to play to your stars' strengths, you'll greatly increase your chances of winning. Penalty kicks are also more fun than ever. Opposing goalies can now dance, jump, and move left and right to get into the heads of the penalty kicker. As a kicker, your goal is to hit a small bar on a shot meter, which, if done successfully, allows you to power the ball into the selected corner with ease. However, if you take too long the goalie and the crowd will get to you, forcing the controller to shake and the bar on the shot meter to dance.
The overall presentation throughout the World Cup mode, and throughout the entire game, is amazing. Before each match, a camera positioned somewhere in orbit around the Earth zooms in on the appropriate German stadium, and you'll be treated to flybys of the grounds where almost every supporter in the crowd is armed with streamers, confetti, and balloons. You can choose to listen to one of the game's many licensed songs, which come from an eclectic soundtrack spanning 14 countries. Good pre-match commentary replete with World Cup trivia and anecdotes is the icing on the cake, and as your players line up on the pitch before kickoff, you feel the excitement of the moment. The UK announcing duo of Clive Tyldesley and Andy Townsend raise the bar in terms of soccer commentary. Combined with the chants and roar of the crowd, you will find yourself sucked in to a intensely immersive, emotional soccer experience, especially when leading your favorite team in the finals.
Another great feature is 2006 FIFA World Cup's global challenge mode, where you are tasked with matching or bettering memorable team performances from World Cup history in 40 different scenarios. For example, you might be required to jump into a game with only 30 minutes remaining and win by the same margin as the real-life victors, simultaneously trying to achieve bonus objectives such as keeping a clean sheet, or not having any players booked. And when you feel like pitting your 2006 FIFA World Cup skills against a human opponent instead of the AI, you can play online or to get some friends over for a FIFA Lounge session. Like its predecessor, 2006 FIFA World Cup requires you to either pay a small fee, or submit your e-mail address before you can play online.
2006 FIFA World Cup's Lounge mode supports up to eight players, although it can certainly be enjoyed by just two or three. Like the Lounge mode in its earlier iteration, 2006 FIFA World Cup's Lounge keeps track of your performances against all of the other participants, giving you a different options for determining who gets to play next. The Lounge mode also retains the "cheap shots" feature, which lets you level the playing field against opponents by using cheats you've earned during previous performances. As another fun option, the Lounge mode has a new risk-style map feature that allows you to take control of countries on the map by winning games with, or against, them.
The closest thing yet to experiencing the excitement and emotion involved in World Cup soccer, and at a fraction of the ticket price, 2006 FIFA World Cup is just too good to pass up.
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Soccer fans worldwide can now take part in the excitement that is 2006 FIFA World Cup, the only offi cial videogame of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Immerse yourself in the world's greatest sports tournament as you lead your nation from the qualifi cation rounds all the way to the World Cup Finals in Germany to lift the World Cup trophy. You'll experience a full range of emotions along the way-from the elation of beating rival nations to the despair of having your World Cup dreams shattered in a crucial penalty shootout. This is your ticket to all the pageantry and passion of the greatest show on Earth.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Best Soccer Yet From EA
May 30 2006
By Sully
- Published on Amazon.com
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
All is forgiven. While I was lukewarm about FIFA 06, this latest title is absolutely EA's finest soccer effort yet. Every one of the items that irritated me about FIFA 06 have been ameliorated, if not outright eliminated in 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Game speed is just about right. Passing and shooting are intuitive and fluid, if a bit clumsy on occassion. Shortcomings in ball physics, while present, are almost never distracting. Matches end with realistic scorelines (on Slow speed, that is).
Graphics are sumptuous in the extreme. I always regard an EA World Cup or Euro game as a souvenir of the tournament, and this year's edition doesn't disappoint. In fact, it probably presents the most compelling pagentry of all the previous efforts combined.
Several challenge modes keep the game fresh with unlockable rewards. You'll probably never complete all the objectives available.
Best of all, you can qualify for the tournament from your region, much like Euro 2004 (another excellent EA soccer title). It all brings back memories of EA's Road to the World Cup 98, a flawed but very fun game. Well, the fun is back.
Lace up your boots!
Game speed is just about right. Passing and shooting are intuitive and fluid, if a bit clumsy on occassion. Shortcomings in ball physics, while present, are almost never distracting. Matches end with realistic scorelines (on Slow speed, that is).
Graphics are sumptuous in the extreme. I always regard an EA World Cup or Euro game as a souvenir of the tournament, and this year's edition doesn't disappoint. In fact, it probably presents the most compelling pagentry of all the previous efforts combined.
Several challenge modes keep the game fresh with unlockable rewards. You'll probably never complete all the objectives available.
Best of all, you can qualify for the tournament from your region, much like Euro 2004 (another excellent EA soccer title). It all brings back memories of EA's Road to the World Cup 98, a flawed but very fun game. Well, the fun is back.
Lace up your boots!
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
YOU WON'T REGRET THIS ONE
May 4 2006
By blackburn
- Published on Amazon.com
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I have pretty much all the EA games and most of them provide more frustration than they are worth. Just take basketball with the repetative comments and obnoxious AI, and NHL 2006 with the bugs that kill all the fun, like scoring 95% of the time on a wraparound and still loosing because AI scores on 100% of puck possessions. Football games have always been good, but this one hit the sweet spot. I liked Fifa 2004 and LOVED Euro 2004, but was a little dissapointed by Fifa 2006. The gameplay and the graphics were better, but just not what you'd expected after 2 years. The players looked blurry and unfinished.
If you are a football fan and liked the previous EA games at all, you will love this one. The graphics are great. The players look awsome; they are clear and look realistic and very well done. I'm sure in a year or two we'll look back at it unimpressed, but now it's as good as it gets. The stadiums are amazing. You get more camera angles showing players celebrating, play highlights and even angles from the crowd. The crowd is well done. The play is generally the same as Fifa 2006, except for small details. Passing and shooting is a little diffent, but it's more in the feel and after a couple minutes you don't even notice it. In any case, it's made the game better. The menues are well done and look great. I haven't had the chance yet to explore all the features, but from what I've seen they look really fun. The game is really fun. It's hard, but if you are a decent player they AI will not rip you to pieces like in some other games, you actually get to compete. I immediatelly went to the hardest setting and did ok, winning 2 of my first 3 games. That's the whole point of this thing, fun. I work all day and when I come home and decide to play on the computer, that's what I want to do - play, not pull my hair out get a heart attack. Those of you who will surely complain because people always complain, shut the f up. This is not a simulator, it's a game. If you want something more realistic, get off your fat asses and play outside. Everybody else, have fun and play hard.
If you are a football fan and liked the previous EA games at all, you will love this one. The graphics are great. The players look awsome; they are clear and look realistic and very well done. I'm sure in a year or two we'll look back at it unimpressed, but now it's as good as it gets. The stadiums are amazing. You get more camera angles showing players celebrating, play highlights and even angles from the crowd. The crowd is well done. The play is generally the same as Fifa 2006, except for small details. Passing and shooting is a little diffent, but it's more in the feel and after a couple minutes you don't even notice it. In any case, it's made the game better. The menues are well done and look great. I haven't had the chance yet to explore all the features, but from what I've seen they look really fun. The game is really fun. It's hard, but if you are a decent player they AI will not rip you to pieces like in some other games, you actually get to compete. I immediatelly went to the hardest setting and did ok, winning 2 of my first 3 games. That's the whole point of this thing, fun. I work all day and when I come home and decide to play on the computer, that's what I want to do - play, not pull my hair out get a heart attack. Those of you who will surely complain because people always complain, shut the f up. This is not a simulator, it's a game. If you want something more realistic, get off your fat asses and play outside. Everybody else, have fun and play hard.
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
SOCCER IN THE RIGTH WAY
May 2 2006
By Raul
- Published on Amazon.com
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I remember the conmemorative game of the world cup Korea-Japan 2002, in it, you only can play in the world cup, only whit the teams that clasified for it.
Fifa Worl Cup 2006, is a BIG step up in this franchise.
In this game, all the teams who will be in the cup are represented, and you can play whit your favorite team, even if it?s not the favorite.
In this ocasion, EA put, also, all the teams that participate in the eliminatories to qualified to the Worl Cup. Something similar like the game, Road To The World Cup. That is, you can compete for a spot in the World Cup in Germany. All the teams are represented. You like Camerron, you have it, play with them and qualifie them to the cup.
There are the North America, South America, Europe, Asian, African and Oceanian stages to qualified, all the teams, even rare ones like Saint Vincent, and the small contries you don?t even now where they are.a big new: JULES, HOLlAND IS HERE, REPRESENTED WHIT THE REAL PLAYERS, NOT NUMBERS OR POSITIONS. I refer to Jules ( I apologise to you for use your name if you don?t like it), because in his rewie of Fifa 2006, he said, that Holland is represented by players, in this game ALL the players are real ones. Even teams like Togo, San Vincent, etc. all have they star players in this game.
In the game you can chose amogn several ways to play: Exhibition, Penalty Soutout, Qualification series, World Cup, Practice ( free practice 11-11, 11-10, 11-9 or 11-1 man, penalty practice, free kicks, indirect kicks, corners), on line games, Scenario (when you recreate the mos memorabble games and try to repet or chanc?ge the history). You can use any tem you want.
If you win the match, you won some points, that serve you to unlock famous players of diferents teams, like Hugo Sanchesz for M?xico, than you can use in the World Cup.
The dificulty is very well balance, in this game, the better in the ranking the country you are against, the more oposition it makes. That is, is very easy to beat Saanin Vincent like 7-0 or 6-1, but try to win, even in the amateru level, to Brasil, Germany, Italy, or some other big squad, and you can do it, only whit some more work, and not spect a scor like 7-0 or something similar.
The graphics are very good. The players are represented almost like a the real ones, You can recognice the favorite one?s only for their look, like Ronaldi?o, Cocu, Del Piero.
In this time, the AI is a litle better, the oposition is more, depending of the country you like to chosee as your rival. The defensive side is more realistic, they tray to steal the ball, and they don?t give easy goals, the goal keperar behave more reaslistic, triing to lok for the beter man to give the ball to ( remember all depending of the team?s, it?s not the same the golakeper of Germany than the one of Togo). Somethig i noticed is that if you are the local country, the visitor is in the defensive area, trying to obtain a Draw, not atack much, waiting for the oportunity to do some damage, but the situacion changes if you are the visitor, the local's are goin to play more agresive, star to atack you, and in some cases when they are behind one goal and the time is over, send the goalkeper to the net in the corners, sometihg you see in the real game.
The controls are the same as Fifa 2006, use the A, S, D, W, E keys, that?s it. The physics are very well represented, forget about the time you hit a player and in the replay you can not see how you do it. The ball is more real this time, you can shott in the direction you want and whit the strenght you want.
The stadiums loke great. All of the stadium in which the World Cupr is takin part are here. Also, there are a lot more, some from europe, from america, asia, japan, and many countries, because, remember, you can play all the qualification games and try to qualifie for the Wordl Cup. ( try whit Cameroon, an qualified them).
For me, this game is a good combination of the Korea-Japan 2002 and the Fifa Road to the World Cup. All the stages of the World Cupa are here, from qualified to the big event. This game is a lot of fun, whit many teams in it. It dosen?t matter where you are from, if your country has a spot in the qualification tho the Worl Cup, is here, in the game, whit real player?s ( or at least real names, frankly, i don?t knok the names of the player?s of teams like Macedonia or Togo or Trinidad and tobago)
ENJOY THIS GREAT GAME, A MUST HAVE FOR ALL SOCCER FANS.
Fifa Worl Cup 2006, is a BIG step up in this franchise.
In this game, all the teams who will be in the cup are represented, and you can play whit your favorite team, even if it?s not the favorite.
In this ocasion, EA put, also, all the teams that participate in the eliminatories to qualified to the Worl Cup. Something similar like the game, Road To The World Cup. That is, you can compete for a spot in the World Cup in Germany. All the teams are represented. You like Camerron, you have it, play with them and qualifie them to the cup.
There are the North America, South America, Europe, Asian, African and Oceanian stages to qualified, all the teams, even rare ones like Saint Vincent, and the small contries you don?t even now where they are.a big new: JULES, HOLlAND IS HERE, REPRESENTED WHIT THE REAL PLAYERS, NOT NUMBERS OR POSITIONS. I refer to Jules ( I apologise to you for use your name if you don?t like it), because in his rewie of Fifa 2006, he said, that Holland is represented by players, in this game ALL the players are real ones. Even teams like Togo, San Vincent, etc. all have they star players in this game.
In the game you can chose amogn several ways to play: Exhibition, Penalty Soutout, Qualification series, World Cup, Practice ( free practice 11-11, 11-10, 11-9 or 11-1 man, penalty practice, free kicks, indirect kicks, corners), on line games, Scenario (when you recreate the mos memorabble games and try to repet or chanc?ge the history). You can use any tem you want.
If you win the match, you won some points, that serve you to unlock famous players of diferents teams, like Hugo Sanchesz for M?xico, than you can use in the World Cup.
The dificulty is very well balance, in this game, the better in the ranking the country you are against, the more oposition it makes. That is, is very easy to beat Saanin Vincent like 7-0 or 6-1, but try to win, even in the amateru level, to Brasil, Germany, Italy, or some other big squad, and you can do it, only whit some more work, and not spect a scor like 7-0 or something similar.
The graphics are very good. The players are represented almost like a the real ones, You can recognice the favorite one?s only for their look, like Ronaldi?o, Cocu, Del Piero.
In this time, the AI is a litle better, the oposition is more, depending of the country you like to chosee as your rival. The defensive side is more realistic, they tray to steal the ball, and they don?t give easy goals, the goal keperar behave more reaslistic, triing to lok for the beter man to give the ball to ( remember all depending of the team?s, it?s not the same the golakeper of Germany than the one of Togo). Somethig i noticed is that if you are the local country, the visitor is in the defensive area, trying to obtain a Draw, not atack much, waiting for the oportunity to do some damage, but the situacion changes if you are the visitor, the local's are goin to play more agresive, star to atack you, and in some cases when they are behind one goal and the time is over, send the goalkeper to the net in the corners, sometihg you see in the real game.
The controls are the same as Fifa 2006, use the A, S, D, W, E keys, that?s it. The physics are very well represented, forget about the time you hit a player and in the replay you can not see how you do it. The ball is more real this time, you can shott in the direction you want and whit the strenght you want.
The stadiums loke great. All of the stadium in which the World Cupr is takin part are here. Also, there are a lot more, some from europe, from america, asia, japan, and many countries, because, remember, you can play all the qualification games and try to qualifie for the Wordl Cup. ( try whit Cameroon, an qualified them).
For me, this game is a good combination of the Korea-Japan 2002 and the Fifa Road to the World Cup. All the stages of the World Cupa are here, from qualified to the big event. This game is a lot of fun, whit many teams in it. It dosen?t matter where you are from, if your country has a spot in the qualification tho the Worl Cup, is here, in the game, whit real player?s ( or at least real names, frankly, i don?t knok the names of the player?s of teams like Macedonia or Togo or Trinidad and tobago)
ENJOY THIS GREAT GAME, A MUST HAVE FOR ALL SOCCER FANS.
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