Disclaimer - The game is called football, since you play it with your feet. Anyone who disagrees can go get bent. Pictured above is who I hope is Jan Vinegoor of Hesselink, who has the best name in football and awesome goals to match.
Oh EA, how you rival Squeenix and Pokemon in terms of crappy spin-off, cash-grabbing, games. I'll be the first to admit that I have a soft spot for FIFA games. I find them much more gratifying that most other sports games. That being said, I'll be the first to criticize EA for making another weak addition to the FIFA franchise.
For those who don't know, the UEFA Champion's League is the professional football tourney. It takes the best teams from the European Leagues and pits them against each other in a huge tournament. Apparently, EA is releasing the latest FIFA game to take you through the most epic of tourneys. The game will be released on the PS2, PSP, and Xbox 360 and will feature "almost" all of the teams that qualified for the Champions League.
WHAT?! Almost?
That was red flag number 1. Glad to know that this game will be thorough.
I predict that this game will be, like most of EA's sports franchises, a rehashed Road to the FIFA World Cup, which was, in turn a rehashed, repackaged FIFA 06. The problem with Road to the World Cup was it was just the Road. No actual World Cup. Not to mention that there were only a handful of teams to choose from, as opposed to the shitton (roughly 2.15 asstons -- seriously, 300+) of teams to be found in regular old FIFA 06. There weren't any new modes, or gameplay features, or extras. There simply wasn't enough game in that little green box to justify the pricetag.
With their UEFA game, EA is again giving us a game with less content (only 80 teams qualify, and even those won't be included) for the same price. What they should do is release a standard FIFA game with the hundreds of teams and let the players organize their own World Cup and UEFA tourneys. Let me build myself a bracket depending on real life events, and then let me invite a few of my other football-crazed friends so we can duke it out. Don't give me another watered down game with no new gameplay, features, or extras, slap the UEFA logo on it and make me shell out $60.
[News and pic via thebbps]
Contest:
3:36 PM on 01.12.2007 | 
It's called soccer, because players kick around a soccer ball. USA! USA! USA! "
yeah that "soccer ball" was originally (and still is in most of the world) called a football... you've gotta realize, only the US calls it soccer... and the population of the US is insignificant compared to the rest of the world... just cuz you say something someway doesn't mean we all have to
http://www.stephaniemiller.com/declarationofrevocation.htm
there, that should bring you up to date at how... bad your country's doing... and i'm not saying that all the people are that bad, there are a lot who are pretty cool people who actually have lives! just that seems to be the american trend... hope no americans are offended by this comment and the above link! :)
But you're right about Champion's League. The game is for the Champions League, I made a typo. Fixed now.
I just don't think the game play is as natural but then again International Superstar Soccer on N64 is still my favorite soccer\football game.
at least FIFA->UEFA isn't as painful an upgrade as FIFA->MLS, imagine, having to change all the characters and even go as far as remove a letter. its hard, hard work.
Also, no one MAKES you "shell out $60". Maybe if, for a year or two, you (and a few of your elite football calling brethren) DIDN"T shell out the money, they would start making a better game. The power is yours.
Also, don't Italians call it Calcio or something? I think there are countries outside the US who do not call it football.
And I'm with you Orcist, I prefer FIFA to Pro Evo as well
1. Who cares what you call soccer, at the end its still 90 minutes of sweaty men running around and probably will end up in a 0-0 tie. I think its the only sport that is more fun to play as a video game then the real thing. I wouldn't doubt that Beckham will start calling it soccer
2. That article is crap and John cleese had nothing to do with it(http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/revocation.asp).
I'll consider learning the words to God Save the Queen if that powerless figurehead wipes her butt with the magna carta, only then will I consider it.
3. I haven't liked Fifa (and I don't know if other soccer games have this same problem) since I played through Fifa 2002 and you finish the game when you qualify to be in the world cup. At least make up some fake World cup and call it something else so I can feel like I beat the game. Hopefully they've changed that since the 2002 version
4. Cut the USA some slack, if it wasn't for us Zidane would have been headbutting Marco with a swastika band around his arm.
Please google the term "joke". Perhaps then you will understand what I was going for there. :)
ON TOPIC.
Im going to wait a few years before they hammer out the former next-gen, and now current gen consoles, so we actually have a few new and original sports-game setups.
–noun
1. something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
2. something that is amusing or ridiculous, esp. because of being ludicrously inadequate or a sham; a thing, situation, or person laughed at rather than taken seriously; farce: Their pretense of generosity is a joke. An officer with no ability to command is a joke.
3. a matter that need not be taken very seriously; trifling matter: The loss was no joke.