System Requirements:
Processor= 550MHz
RAM= 128MBGraphics Card= 32MB
FIFA World Cup 2002 is quite simply one of the most exciting PC sports games ever created.
It
wasn't so very long ago that soccer fans could choose from a variety of
PC-based depictions of their favorite sport. Yet as the last few years
of the 20th century fluttered by, it became increasingly apparent that
one title stood tall above the rest. That game was EA Sports' FIFA
Soccer, and today it is virtually the only way to play. With FIFA World
Cup 2002, EA has gone to the well once more, again tweaking its dominant
formula just enough to make an already captive audience think hard
about reenlisting. Sporting several minor gameplay enhancements and a
substantially overhauled presentation that impressively re-creates the
global impact of a World Cup event, this edition of FIFA is in many ways
the finest edition of FIFA yet. Although it revolves completely around
the 2002 Japan/Korea World Cup and as such doesn't deliver the sheer
number of players, teams, and league and tournament
options of FIFA's regular annual installments, FIFA World Cup 2002 is
quite simply one of the most exciting PC sports games ever created.
This
is no small accomplishment considering how professionally appointed
each previous FIFA has been. Yet when experienced back-to-back with last
year's FIFA Soccer 2002--released a scant six months ago--FIFA World
Cup 2002 is a completely different animal. Starting with the game's
dramatic introductory sequence, you'll sense that EA wanted to unleash
something new. The usual electronic/dance beats of chart-toppers such as
Moby and Ministry of Sound have
been exchanged for the powerful strings and crescendos and kettledrums
of the critically acclaimed Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. The menu
system, which surely reached the peak of drabness in last year's model,
is polished, colorful, and presented with pride. The new "everyone's
game" component, wherein you can access real-life multimedia snippets
concerning most every aspect of this year's World Cup, is especially
enjoyable despite its low-grade video quality.
FIFA
World Cup 2002 presents 20 Japanese and Korean stadiums in all, each a
seemingly faithful and certainly brilliantly rendered work of art, and
the choice of day or night contests. Interestingly, the game does not
offer inclement weather options. When the sides are selected and the
go-ahead given, you'll take a dizzying ride from the top of the stadium
to pitch level, taking in a profusion of visual treats along the way.
Fireworks explode in the sky, laser effects dance all around, and a
surging sea of spectators rises and falls as one. EA has adopted a
high-contrast color palette for this edition, with greener grass,
brighter daylight, darker night skies, punctuated lighting effects, and
more vivid kits and thus has made the game look far more vibrant and
alive than ever before.
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