Product Description

FIFA 08 on the Wii makes it easy for the whole family to play and enjoy football with a flick of the wrist. Featuring superstar Ronaldinho as the first football player created as a unique and playable mini character, you'll experience soccer in a videogame like you never have before. In the main game, pass, shoot, and perform trick moves with amazing control, all with a flick of the wrist. The all-new unique Footii Party with Ronaldinho mode introduces three party games featuring Ronaldinho as his own unique avatar. Play Juggling, Table Football and Boot It with your self-created Mii character to unlock Ronaldinho and take on the champ. Use motions to control everything from tackling to shooting and throw-ins to freekicks. Send the ball exactly where you intended with a wave of the Wii remote and Nunchuk. The in-game Football Academy teaches basic and advanced controls in more than 30 interactive tutorials until you've mastered the FreeMotion controls and all the necessary movements to dominate on the pitch. Win glory for your club: mesmerize defenders with authentic individual skill, dictate the play with all-new controls for through-passing and crossing, or control your goalkeeper in one-on-one situations to deny an onrushing striker. Intelligently manage your club by preparing for each specific opponent using new custom formations. Design your own unique strategy to create the perfect formation and tactics. Assign roles and move players to the exact position in relation to team-mates to undermine the opposition. With licenses for all of the world's top leagues, over 570 licensed teams and more than 14,000 players, FIFA 08 delivers an authentic soccer experience like no other. Go online with your favorite team to challenge a rival squad one-on-one. Represent your club online against your rivals throughout the season in the F.A. Premier League ESRB Rated E for Everyone

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3256 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-10-09
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Dimensions: .40 pounds

Features

• Revolutionary game controls allow you to pass, shoot, and perform skills such as stepovers and drag-backs, all with a flick of the wrist.
• Play three completely unique Party Games exclusive to the Nintendo Wii
• Learn the basics by playing 30 interactive tutorials.
• Design your own unique strategy to create the perfect formation and tactics

Amazon.com
Mesmerize defenders with authentic individual skill and play like a real soccer player with FIFA Soccer 08. Take over any game like never before with more aggressive tackling and more physical play, then lead each attack with intricate passing moves and all-new shooting capabilities exclusive to the Nintendo Wii. Use enhanced game controls to dominate each competitive game mode, featuring more than 30 official leagues, 30 real stadiums, and 15,000 players. Become soccer’s newest phenomenon and play like a real soccer player with FIFA Soccer 08.

Features

• A New Soccer Experience—Revolutionary game controls allow you to pass, shoot, and perform skills such as stepovers and drag-backs, all with a flick of the wrist. Dictate the play with new manual controls for through-passing and crossing, or control your goalkeeper in one-on-one situations to deny an onrushing striker.
• Footii Party—Play three completely unique Party Games exclusive to the Nintendo Wii, hosted by the world’s first Mii professional soccer player, and soccer’s greatest player, Ronaldinho.
• Join the Soccer Academy—Learn the basics by playing 30 interactive tutorials. Each lesson teaches you how to master the motion controls and perform all the necessary movements to dominate on the pitch.
• Customizable Formations—Design your own unique strategy to create the perfect formation and tactics, including four four two, three four three, Christmas tree, diamond formation, and more. Assign roles and move players to the exact position in relation to teammates to undermine the opposition.

Customer Reviews

Great concept, with a few drawbacks
I've been looking forward to this release, since Fifa '06 is the last game I need to whip out my GameCube controllers for.

Pros:
1) Innovative use of Wii gestures. I'm really pleased with the control made possible through gestures. Passing accurately to players across the field, dribbling and tricks are very flexible, much more so than just flicking the C-stick to activate random tricks.

2) AI is great. I like the fact that, rather than just tackling or slide tackling, you can shove players, lunge, etc.

3) With the beginner mode and the Footii games, my wife will actually play this with me (a first).

4) I like the fact that the computer will actually commit fouls, and now will even substitute players.

5) The Soccer Academy is a great idea, really making it possible to gain fluency with the new controls. In general there is much more description of features than in past versions of the game.

Cons:

1) Despite the greater flexibility with Wii gestures, I really wish the Shoot gesture was accompanied by a button. Often times the player doesn't shoot until the 2nd or 3rd swing of the remote, and often that's too late. There are also two types of shots available by swinging the remote up or down, but no matter which direction I swing the remote, all my shots are "finesse shots".

2) No manager mode. Ouch.

3) The goal keepers are absolutely atrocious. If you do actually get the remote to recognize a shot, the goal keeper almost never stops it. The computer goalie has actually thrown the ball to my striker several times. When I control my own goalie, I can't seem to get him to go the direction I want (I'll swing the remote right and he'll go left). Perhaps I just need to practice more.

4) No manager mode. I know.

5) No standard practice mode. I really liked throwing the training jerseys on in scrimmage mode. Especially with the new controls it would be great to have this environment to practice.

All in all, I'm really enjoying the game. I really hope there will be improvements with the next version, such as, I don't know, adding a manager mode? Just a thought...

Best Football Game Ever.
The biggest complaint about EA's FIFA franchise has been the absymal controls. Well, thanks to the Wii, those days are long over. Tricks and skills involve simple flicks of the controls instead of complicated late 80s Street Fighter type moves, and furthermore, things are no longer based on the perspective of the player in-game. Swinging the remote to the right ALWAYS means right, regardless of player facing or camera angle. Though Wii controls can be intimidating to those of us raised on control pads, everything is intuitive. Plus, FIFA 08 includes a nice tutorial / training feature that explains things so simply and easily that even an Xbox 360 fan could understand.

It is true that FIFA 08 on the Wii does not include a manager mode. The reason is quite simply that this game is meant to be PLAYED. The Wii has established itself as the ultimate party console, and now FIFA 08 is the ultimate footy arcade game. There are a number of highly sophisticated manager sims out there. This game is for those of us who want to dive on to the pitch and hear the roar of the crowd instead of sit in a boardroom and count our pounds or euros.

Structurally and gameplay-wise, this game is as close to perfection as EA Sports has produced for any sport. Since sports video games (on any console) tend to range from reasonable to enraging and seldom fantastic, FIFA 08's stratospheric quality and playability thanks to near perfect Wii controls could possibly make this the greatest sports video game ever. All it takes is a few minutes of immersion (and of course, a rudimentary knowledge of proper football tactics- which, by the way, you can customise!).

So what is missing? Other than manager mode, which is largely a non-factor, FIFA remains heavily Eurocentric. The only full CONMEBOL league is Brazil's Campeonato Série A (along with a handful of Série B clubs and one Série C club), with the much-demanded Argentine 1st division represented only by Boca Juniors and River Plate, with not even a whisper of high profile Copa Libertadores contenders such as Colo Colo of Chile, Millonarios of Colombia, Nacional of Uruguay, and so on.

Furthermore, there is still no J-League, nor are the Russian and Ukrainian leagues, which seems silly since bottom feeding Polish Ekstraklasa, the League of Ireland, and the Czech 1st division ARE included.

FIFA 08 contains a large battery of national sides, including Russia and Ukraine, but bizarrely Japan has been removed entirely, replaced by South Africa and near-dead last FIFA-ranked New Zealand. The only South American sides are Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, the only African sides are Cameroon, Nigeria, and the aforementioned South Africa, and absolutely no Central Americans are represented, as the USA and Mexico are the only CONCACAF inclusions.

To conclude, despite the above mentioned head-scratching exclusions, FIFA 08 on the Wii features 621 clubs in 30 leagues. With online squad updates and absolutely sublime controls, this is a game that offers almost unlimited fun. An absolute must for the true football fan!

Lots of fun!
I bought this game thinking it will be weird to handle on the Wii. Well I was wrong, this game is really intuitive and lots of fun, one of the closes experiences to the old glorious ISSS of, and that's saying a lot.
If you are a futbol (Football, as American Football should be called handball) fan and have a Wii, buy this game.