FIFA Soccer 2004 has deeper soccer action with all-new graphics and a Career Mode, for the truly devoted soccer fan! Face all the slide-tackles and hard charges you'd find on a pro soccer field Try out the new Career Mode -- you'll play up through the lower divisions and fight your way into a starting position with a premier club Total realism and industry-leading gameplay return with the true authority in soccer gaming!

Incredible new player details and responsiveness for an entirely new level of in-depth soccer action

Hit the Pitch with the best clubs, teams and players from all the international teams

Championship Mode will put you to the test as you face the top clubs in the world

Set pieces let you use free kicks & corner kicks to set up a shot and score

Powerful game-changing AI makes adopts new strategies based on real game situations

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Granted, the graphics and gameplay have seen great improvement, but what I cannot comprehend is why FIFA 2004 appears to be going back in time. I mean, FIFA 2003 had a "create a team" option which is ominously missing in this "new and improved" game. Further, THERE ARE NO INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION. For Pete's sake, Super Nintendo's FIFA '98 even had the CONCACAF World Cup Qualification 'tournaments'. FIFA 2004 has none; not even a World Cup. Also, the developers were absolutely obsessed with club teams; they added dozens of teams from Austria and Korea yet they only put in less than 20 international teams.

To make things worse, they managed to leave out international teams like Japan, Holland, Colombia, Romania, Ireland, Thailand, Iran, and Bulgaria. At this rate, they'll probably forget to add Uruguay and Belgium for FIFA 2005.

Also, the refereeing is highly unpredictable. In FIFA 2002, you could actually choose the referee's strictness.

The game could also use more stats and game options. Whats odd is that previous versions of FIFA have actually had more options to tweek with. FIFA 2004 is pretty dry.

In short, buy this game only if you want a graphics update and don't mind not being able to play international tournaments.

15 of 19 found the following review helpful:

Fantastic!Oct 31, 2003
By ATB
Hi guys!

I just got FIFA 2004 yesterday. I played about 10 hours running, until I felt I was exhausted! :) Just before that I played FIFA 2003, borrowed from a friend of mine. You know guys, it's like SKY and EARTH - such a big difference! I can't say that I have already found all the pros and cons, but I found this game as a huge step UP! The graphics are just outstanding! Lots of opportunities to score and scored goals look stunning! The only minor thing which did actually disappoint me a bit was that when you score the croud does not outburst as in FIFA 2003. Somebody might ignore it at all, but in FIFA 2003 audience support was better from my point of view.

DON'T even hesitate! Buy it!!! You will be HAPPY!

7 of 8 found the following review helpful:

EA FIFA 2004 By Harish a 10 year oldNov 17, 2003

Okay first of all I have no idea why everybody thinks this game is so bad.True, it has some flaws , but games are meant to be enjoyed over not stressed over. The graphics are mind blowing and the sound is good as well.Pro Evolution Soccer 3 is a huge rival os fifa but this time fifa has done everything to be better and has succeded.In fifa there is excellent replay value but in pro evo they show a replay for every single shot.The players really look alike to tv.The modes include career,exhibition and practice. In career you get to control the budgets,transfers and substitutions. There are also international teams to choose from.The teams are updated, they even have David Beckham in Real Madrid. You get toimprove your aim in training.Go out and buy this game if you like football.I hope you found my review helpful.

8 of 10 found the following review helpful:

Way coolNov 13, 2003
By Patrick Walsh "Karma Konchog Jungney"
I got it yesterday. Spent six hours with it. The game is much more realistic now than ever, particularly from the defensive side of things. You can actually produce clean sheets consistently with this, unlike FIFA 2003. Many of the features like the end-to-end camera with zoom and height controls have returned from FIFA 2002 which were missing in FIFA 2003.

The play is realistic. The UI still stinks (hence the missing star.) It is confusing sometimes. "Waiting for Away Team." Still have not figured out how to get the away team to show up! But the career feature is great! You actually get to earn money, and prestige (not sure what that means yet, but sounds interesting.) By earning money for your budget means you can improve your club over the long haul. In FIFA 2003, you were give X amount of dollars, and that was it. This makes it more interesting.

Hopefully Hull City will extend my contract next season after I get them out of the third division.

3 of 3 found the following review helpful:

More of a lateral move than an improvementApr 29, 2004
By Chris D. Gross
I received this game as a gift, so I cannot comment on the price value. However, I can give my opinion on some of the aspects of this game.

First I went to select my favorite team in the world. Yet they were not there. They left out HOLLAND. How is that possible? When I played FIFA 2002 on my PC, at least they had Holland as a team if not having any of the actual players. It's ludicrous that they would leave one of the most fascinating teams in the world out.

Though I have tried to play with the tool, the off-the-ball runs feature rarely works well. Maybe I am not playing with the right strategy, but I almost never see a wing player making a run. Most of the time it's the backpedaling forward who is making the run. And never into open space. I much rather prefer the old style of passing which was left out.

Why can't I curve the ball anymore? It is much easier to dissect a defense if you could curl the ball into the path of a player making a run. Often the straight line passes are picked off. By the time you do manage to get in a position to pass straight to a teammate, your player is robbed of the ball. I would love to have the option to switch controls to an older model where the trigger buttons can be used to curl left and right.

This game is best played with someone else. With the detriments it has, it can be very frustrating. The gameplay has suffered and the game freezes quite often. I am less interested in stunning graphics (they are quite nice) and more interested in quality gameplay. EA has made a couple steps back with the off the ball runs and the lack of passing control.

Also, I have yet to start a season as manager so I can't comment. No wait, I have started, but it froze up before I could save. It looked like a nifty addition, but it seems that the other playability problems should be fixed before EA tackles something in the managerial realm.

All in all a mediocre effort. Luckily, I didn't buy it.

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