FIFA 09

The best football game ever made? Electronic Arts - a brand once associated with uninspired franchise-pumping, but is now quickly becoming a name which can be recognised for genuine quality - have really achieved something magical. Coming from a rather lame, overly-simplistic, and dull title called FIFA 07, EA have taken only two iterations - giant leaps - to create what amounts to a complete computer footballing masterpiece. Its barely even worth mentioning (at this point) the crumpled laurels which a rather tattered looking Pro Evolution Soccer desperately tries to fluff back together. Two years ago if you told me I'd be writing this I'd have gut-laughed all the way home. "The perfection of computer gaming football, I am you." The motions of players and the ball physics are so finely-tuned there's barely a distinction from... [read full story]