Product Description

FIFA 2006 brings you intense and realistic soccer action -- the world-class soccer action that true fans crave! Get out on the Pitch as you play as you play a complete, authentic, and intelligent soccer experience. Become a player or a manager, as you guide a team through its career and create a legend. Special club transfers Option for downloading updated roster information

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11895 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 14814
• Released on: 2005-10-04
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 2.00 pounds

Features

• Complete, authentic, and intelligent soccer sports game
• 350+ official team and league licenses from around the world
• Licensed stadiums with authentic crowd chants; the latest 05/06 statistics
• All-new manager mode; enhanced career mode; multimedia videos
• Single player and online multiplayer modes

From the Manufacturer
Delivering an unprecedented combination of attacking gameplay, complete customization, and pure authenticity, FIFA Soccer 06 is the total soccer experience. More intuitive gameplay lets you control every move with pinpoint accuracy, enabling you to pass, shoot, and tackle with more responsiveness than ever before. Off the pitch, master the most immersive Manager mode ever. Sign sponsors, monitor the transfer market, and buy players as you discover the stars of tomorrow. Featuring the most comprehensive line-up of licensed leagues, players, and kits from around the world, FIFA Soccer 06 dominates the pitch like never before.

Features:

• Attacking gameplay: As the Midfield General, battle your rivals using physical play and on-the-ball skill. All-new tackling, dribbling, and shielding moves put you in complete control on the pitch.
• All-new Manager mode: Determine the fate of your club in the 15-year Career mode. Control club budgets, manage your coaching staff, set tactical formations, and search the transfer market for potential stars of the future.
• Pure authenticity: The definitive officially licensed soccer game features more than 20 leagues, 10,000 world-class players, and the latest 2005-2006 statistics. Experience all-new multimedia videos highlighting soccer’s golden moments, history, and heritage.
• All-new FIFA lounge: Play offline and set up competitions with up to eight players to determine the ultimate champion. Highly ranked teams earn special rewards they can use to gain a competitive edge in the next match.
• Complete customization: Shape the game into your own personalized soccer world. With an all-new create-a-player, design a star from scratch, customizing everything from passing abilities to appearance and body-type, and more. Use My FIFA and Team Management to set each aspect of the game to fit your individual playing style.

Customer Reviews

Not Bad, But Not Exactly an Improvement
Every year, EA's FIFA series seems to take two steps forward and one step backwards -- sort of like a nutmeg. There's always something to disappoint, and FIFA 06 continues the dubious tradition.

This year, the managerial mode is far deeper, turning FIFA into a poor man's approximation of Championship Manager. However, onfield graphics are -- well, odd is the best word for it. Players look sort of washed out, and unfinished. The pitch itself is appalling.

Animations are even more puzzling. At certain times, players will begin pumping their legs furiously, like onfield automatons. It's as though they're trying to catch up with something. Then they'll calm down to a more normal gait, just as mysteriously. Overall, the effect is rather Chaplinesque. You do get used to it, but it's a tad distracting.

Menus are some of the best I've seen in an EA Sports game. And the music continues to be marvelous. The broadcasting booth has changed, though -- goodbye to John Motson, and welcome back Andy Gray.

Licensing is where EA's FIFA series shines, and this year is no exception. All the major European nations are there, and with lower leagues to boot. Mexico and South America are well represented as well. Just about every professional footballer -- famous, infamous, and obscure -- is included. Deep customization options allow you to edit lineups to taste.

Gameplay is fine. Not outstanding, but more than adequate. Playing at Professional difficulty, at Slow speed, matches seem to accurately approximate a true soccer scoreline -- no double-digit blowouts, at least so far. More tactical options are available, and corner kicks are simpler. AI is decent, if not dazzling.

Overall, a mixed bag, and an uninspiring one at that. FIFA 06 gets the job done, but only just.

No more easy goals, I hope
At first sight I like this game more than fifa 2005, that's because there are more thing relationated with my country (Mexico). One thing I like is that now it's no so easy to score a goal. In fifa 2005 all you have to do is take the ball an run like mad with no oposition. In 2006 the defense is more dificult, if I can say so. They chase you and steal the ball more easñy. Another thing is that the computer plays more defensive than the year before. Now they take the ball and stay away for your player, making a litle more dificult to steal the ball, however some times they send a pas rigth to your player and you have a very good chance to score. The AI is, for me, improved than last year, because now the players guard better the ball, and some times they kill time, sending pases or runing with the ball in their own field.
As always, you have hundres of teams to chose from, there are many leagues to play in (German, USA, Mexico, Brazil, England, Ialy, Spain), also there are a lot os ftadiums to play in, some are real like the Azteca 8mexico), Santiago Bernabeu ( Spain), and some other are like oval, olimpyc, square, etc. There are a lot of them and all are very well represented.
The sound is very good, for all the people who speak spanish (español), i definitly recomenden, because the comentators are Enrique "El Perro" Bermudez and Ricardo Pelaez, two off the best comentators in my country. Unfortunatly they said the same thing two or four times in each game, but tyhey are funy things to hear.
The graphic in the game are a litle improve than last year, you can recogniced some player the way they look, but in the game, some times thes don't loke realistic.
In all, this is a good game, whit parts which ned improvement, but I recomenden because you can have a good time whit it. Enjoy.

FIFA Soccer -- an ongoing record of "2 steps forward, 1 back"
The manager mode is far more realistic than earlier versions, and in that sense more satisfying to play. Players grow old, lose their abilities and retire. Young players grow into their potential. Players balk at unattractive trade offers, but also respond to the growing prestige of particular clubs and managers. Managing requires that all of this be taken into account. The one frustrating thing, however, is that one can no longer play one's games in manager mode as CPU vs CPU. Instead, one is obliged to directly handle one's own individual players during "live" play. In my view, this reduces the realism of playing as manager. Also, to my eyes, game play looks more stilted in the '06 version (too much meaningless back play, for example) than it did in the '04 version. Still, on balance, a step forward. Why is it, though, that the FIFA Soccer series always seems to take one step back at the same time as it takes two steps forward? Why can't all genuine improvements be carried over from year to year, without the reintroduction of weaker elements from earlier versions?