hey all,
start ur FIFA WCG2006 discussion here like formation or strategy etc etc.

Simple Review from me:
Graphics:
It's totally awesome during cutscenes, the look on players are really nice.You can actually see the grasses during cutscenes man, even wrinkles on the players too Same like u see in Fight Night Round 3 but slightly lousier
Graphics during gameplay is just the same when u play WE9 but if compare to Fifa Road to World Cup i'm not sure, most probably the same also.
I'll give it a 4 out of 5 for graphics.

Gameplay:
Like any other soccer game, not much difference but i have to tell u it's almost close to WE. Keeper is good also, strategies or formations can be set using the D-pad even during gameplay. Another good feature i realise is that u can use steal instead of sliding tackle in this game. previous FIFAs i normally had to use sliding tackle but for this no need already
If u play against computer, i have to say that it's quite hard compare to other FIFAs,more towards WE type...not bad eh and my colleague is having a hard time scoring with Semi-Pro difficulty
Earns 4 out of 5.

Sound:
When i play and was approaching to the opposition's side, u can actually hear the crowd giving louder cheers. Not bad man. I'm sure if play with 5.1 surround it'll be much nicer
Earns a 4 out of 5 for this.

Sorry but i do not have Live yet so can't review, perhaps we will wait for terranova's review for this? That is all for me. I will not held responsible if u buy and think it's lousy mmmkay?

IGN Review - got an impressive 8.4!

If you encounter bug:
You cannot switch off ALL songs on the EA Trax menu. must have at least one song selected else game freezes when it tries to play songs at the end of the game.

This post has been edited by alkt: Apr 27 2006, 11:55 PM

FIFA WCG2006 players and their favorite team:
alkt - Italy
XenoFr3ak - France
jaylike7 - England
PrinceOfPersia - Holland
terranova - England
zaakath - Spain
calvin - England



I'll update the list so that easier for u guys to refer. Just report in here will do

This post has been edited by alkt: Apr 25 2006, 12:11 PM

no discussion yet as we havent get the game.

so close this thread please

your favourite team?

go holland go holland go holland

maybe we can create LIVE tournament for lowyat members

my fav team will be England,brazil and Italy.

yes,we can create a league if there is enough players. 16 participants will do.

i will take brazil team...

This post has been edited by jaylike7: Apr 24 2006, 09:58 PM

Mine is France, England and Portugal .. ill go we Jaylike .. we should create a league for this game ... should be fun.

1st Prize - World Cup Final ticket
2nd Prize - World Cup Semi Final ticket
3rd Prize - Liga Super Ticket (Telekom Malacca vs Selangor MPPJ)

This post has been edited by PrinceOfPersia: Apr 24 2006, 08:02 PM

sooner or later u'll have this thread mah so might as well i create 1st

a league or tourney would be fun

guys,choose only 1 favorite team cos right after u pop the dvd in and during autosave it'll only ask 1 team not 3

XenoFr3ak - France

terranova will play as England.

Offline : 1-4 players
Co-op : 2-4 players
Live : ??

See u guys online.

just wondering,

can we watch the match in live?
it will be fun to watch your buddy's match on live.

Netherland = Holland = Belanda player here

Pffft best team is Malaysia all can do particularly bribes

I will have to go with...Spain..Viva Espanyol!

OK. Played 2 games so far. Played as England and won both times on default semi-pro difficulty (4 difficulty levels - amateur, semi-pro, professional and world class + one more "perfect" difficulty level to unlock).

Beat opponent gets u 250 points, 2-goal winner gets u 500 points, same stiker scoring twice (Owen) gets u 500 points, clean sheet gets 250 points, no yellow cards gets u points, no red cards gets u points, etc etc etc - u get the idea. All these Game Points you rack up can be used in the Store to buy classic kits (e.g. England 1966 kit), different types of Adidas balls (classics like Tango, Fevernova and current ones like F50 x-ite and 2006 Teamgeist Gold Final Ball), unlock classic players (e.g. Beckenbauer, Gasgoine, Cantona, but no PELE!!!), etc.

*Winning Eleven fan-boy mode off*

First impressions of the game. Sorry if I disagree with alkt on some points. The graphics looks good no doubt esp the cutscenes etc. However, the player movements in-game looks very stiff and arcade-like. Nothing compared to the fluidity and realistic player movements found in the latest WE series.

I particularly dislike the ball physics, the ball feels heavy and also sticks to the players feet. There is not much ball free play.

As for the computer's AI, generally ok lah. At semi-pro difficulty, it's very easy to steal opponent's ball. Also, in one of the games, the goalie saved Rooney's shot and lied down on the field motionless while Rooney ran towards the loose ball to tap in an easy sitter.

Finally I must disagree with the IGN review (with due respect to them) which states that it comes close to WE in terms of gameplay. In this respect, EA's FIFA series still has a long way to go before it catches up with the WE series. It's just not as good a football "simulator".

And I just played Winning Eleven 10. Good luck EA trying to catch up. All said and done, I foresee this is still the only footie game that would on played on XB Live going into WC2006, so I'll see u guys on Live. Cheers.

No problem, that is your review mah

Anyway i've realise something just now when my colleagues were playing. When each of them long pass the ball, i actually saw it lags a bit!

Well, we got no other soccer game to play except for FIFA so might as well play it first while waiting for WE10 to come to Xbox360 *fingers crossed*

terranova,
nice eh WE10? didn't buy it cos its in Jap la

But Fernando has already released the English patch for this - although not 100% translated (menu, team names, stadium names done, player names about 70% done). I've patched it and now on my PS2 hard disk.

FIFA franchise never come close to WE series and thats for sure.

anyway,like what ALKT and Terranova mentioned,fifa is the only soccer game avail in 360. might as well we just enjoy it first and grap WE once it is avail in 360,right?

again, can we watch the match on LIVE?

Just played my first game on Live. Opponent was from South Korea, playing as Brazil. I played as England and won 1-0.

The game lagged terribly. Also there are no replays on Live (e.g. when a foul is committed, off-side or goal scored) unlike in offline mode. Games look like limited to 4 mins per half, and at end of each game brings you back to main menu and not lobby/room, so could not replay with the same player. Also doesn't look like there's co-op mode on Live, only 1 vs 1. Anyway, that's just first impressions.

@ jaylike7 - there is no spectator mode from what I've seen so far.

Edit - ok played another 2 games on Live. My track record so far, win 2 lost 1. Ranked 40th when I played my first game and won. Now ranked 75th with 2 wins 1 loss. Second game played with someone from Norway and third game with someone from Japan. Both games were lagging badly and made the game very jerky - really really bad and not enjoyable. Also, not many players online. Maybe it's still too early - not many ppl have this game yet. The guy ranked no. 1 only played a total of 17 games.


This post has been edited by terranova: Apr 25 2006, 03:42 AM

hem, unless konami have confirm the release date for WE10 for xbox360 is end of this year, and if i really cant control myself to play football games....

then ill get this one on this coming friday.

and my favourate team is argentina and italy (WE8 & 9)... so will stick to this 2 teams la.

i do hope that this game will have more advance technic like WE series to win a match.... else it's no fun.

I will take Japan lar... take the underdog. will get this game tom from djinn.

ok just got my copy of Fifa world cup germany 2006.. using England as fav team...meet ya guys on Live

just won my World Cup yesterday. only got 5 achievements.

oh ya,a tip for u guys. there is 1 achievement called Beat the Nation host rite? if ur lazy to play a full match against Germany then go play the penalty test and win it...that will work too

This post has been edited by alkt: Apr 25 2006, 12:15 PM

England has a lot of "star" players - e.g. Rooney, Beckham, Gerrard.

Calvin, care to share your initial impression of the game?

after having a quick run on the game..

Graphics : Best i've seen for the past few FIFA games i played
Gameplay : Very nice and gets exciting when ur players gets close to the penalty box of the opponent
Sound : Great !

calvin,
play more 1st then come back to us

May i know where u all guys get this game cos it's not yet available at play-asia?????

Here
it's out mah. terranova and i got it from stores in HK

OIC...thanks a lot.

i got it from Software Boutique

don't have much time to play with it leh...got classes to attend after that ...

I take ITALY...the Azzuri!!!!

U got it from SB ... if Jaylike see this ... he sure

Btw, review are up at Teamxbox ... Teamxbox gave Fifa 06 World Cup a 8.3/10.

Can't wait. Hopefully it plays like WE, cos I haven't played a FIFA game since FIFA 98

Damn. My game freezes. Now playing World Cup campaign mode, playing as England. First game against Paraguay. At the end of game (on the "Post Game Menu - Statistics" screen) we're suppose to click A button to continue. Mine freezes at this point - have to re-start console. Played this game 4 times and all 4 times stuck at this same point. *&$%@*%

bro, i think ur cd got problem. mine no prob at all

We still waiting for bro DjiNn....

arr .. why let bro jaylike see sure ?

@alkt - can you re-create my scenario and see what happens on your side? i.e. play as England in WC Mode, all on default settings (i.e. 6 mins, normal speed, semi-pro, etc). Your first game should be England vs Paraguay. See what happens at end of game. If yours works, then it's only mine. If yours freezes too, then it's a game bug?

Thanks.

terranova - i'm using England and played through the default settings also but did not encounter the problems u mentioned there though.. played until the last 16 teams yesterday.

Shit!! Then must be just my DVD.

Thanx calvin. Wanna play online tonight?

how is the LIVE connection of this game. is it laggy like Fifa Road to World Cup?

Refer my earlier posts on this thread. So far for me, yes, very laggy.

wish i could..but got to deal with some homeworks first...
or maybe we could meet up either afternoons tomorrow or friday.. or we could just play through the weekend

OK. Looks like my problem may not be a faulty disc.

First, I tried tweaking with the settings e.g. change game duration, change difficulty etc, even changed the schedules e.g. instead of first game england vs paraguay as it should i changed it to england vs trinidad as the first game for the group. Still the game freezes on me right after the first game as before.

Tried changing team and played as Brazil instead. Game still freezes after completing my first game, as before.

Finally decided to delete my FIFA WC2006 game saves, award saves, etc from the hard disk. Started the game with a clean slate, with no option files. Went straight into FIFA WC mode and played as England on default settings. This time the game did not freeze after the first game. YAAYYYY!!!!! So it must have been a corrupt save on the hard disk earlier?

All went well until finished England vs Sweden and it hung on me again. *sigh*

Now I'm thinking maybe it's got to do with one of the settings I tweaked with - e.g. camera angle (I play on "Tele"), or maybe cos I disabled EA Trax, or something like that. Will have to continue experimenting tonight.

Thanks EA for the bug.

sorry to hear that terranova. hope u can settle it ASAP

This post has been edited by alkt: Apr 27 2006, 11:42 PM

hoho,

i'm going off now to get my copy from DjinN.

tonight i might ditch GRAW and play this instead. any1 wanna live? c ya tonight

I will Live you ... but be forewarned ... it lags real bad. Msg me tonite.

don't worry, if it's lags really bad you can come back to GRAW

Eh why lah? U miss me in GRAW ar ?

Nobody to snipe your head is it ?

miss those sniper vs sniper moment with you
no lar, we need a good sniper. yesterday the team i'm in is a mess, everybody just running here and there. and pJ was busy sniping our head one by one.

WORLD CUP ROCK!!!! but seriously it is laggy in LIVE....

Wah ... very laggy in live, izzit that bad ?.. will it still be playable ??

Sooo many control button combinations

Darn,,,,i miss the PM from DJinn...I should access this forum from my handphone instead of my home's PC as it is late already....can only get this copy of FIFA from DJinn on this sunday...sigh againnnnnn

laggy even among local players ?

ok. figured out the bug that's causing my games to hang/freeze. you cannot switch off ALL songs on the EA Trax menu. must have at least one song selected else game freezes when it tries to play songs at the end of the game.

i've edited my first post for de-bugging countermeasures

played with Vivaldi.

and it really lags the game,can't believe that..wish EA will come out a fix on this issue.

The lagginess in Live mode really takes away a lot of the value of this game. Now I really can't wait for WE / PES series for xbox 360.

PES6 at E3

Somebody has to really, really tell me how to change the difficulty setting of this game. It's just too easy on default.

This game is OK, but it's really just a distraction while we get WE on the 360.

After u select to play now.. u will come to a screen, press the shoulder buttons, u can choose stadium, match length, difficulty.

Update: Just collected da game from Jaylike this morning. Will be playing after I get some rest.

This post has been edited by XenoFr3ak: Apr 28 2006, 08:10 AM

Managed to play two games, friendly against Hong Kong, me using Japan. Not bad lar, wish can play more games. will not be using my xbox till monday since i'm away.

Before you start a game/tournament, you're presented with a game settings page. Right trigger to select various options as Xeno said and right D-pad to select sub-option. Options include - duration per half (2/4/6/8/10/45 minutes), game speed (normal, slow & fast - defaults on normal), difficulty, etc.

4 levels of difficulty - amateur, semi-pro, professional and world class. Default is semi-pro. There's also another level above world class - it's called "perfect" which can be unlocked.

Yeah, got it. I guess kinda used to PES/WE setting, where you can change the difficulty anytime you like Playing on Semi-Pro was just like....WTF!?! All of your through passes will definitely succeed, and the opponent GK is too dumb to react fast enough...

Started playing today, my 1st match is with Germany .. bcos I wanted the 50 points for my GS .

Anyone of u guys know how to execute a power kick, I cant seem to do it at all, all my goal kicks are weak.

Anyone wanna play tomorrow morning until night, its my offday ... and I wil be playing this until i master all the movement and key functions.

Mmmmaybe after Chelsea v MU tomorrow

I'm kinda annoyed with the game's glitches.....the framerate slows down when you're in the last 3rd, especially when taking corners. Feels like this game was really rushed.

The animations are quite nice though. The players move around more life-like than WE. But I guess that's the only thing FIFA has over WE right now

Yeah .. im going to glue to my TV during Chelsea v MU ... go Chelsea

So far .. no frame rate issues here for me, the game is really nice. Currently, Im just worried about the online play .. hopefully EA fix tha laggyness when playing LIVE.

A couple of questions dear bro's..

i) Is this game region free? I'm using the Asia set.. The software boutique is selling which region for RM159? Can use the discount card? I've a discount card..

ii) Compared to PS2, are the graphics much much superior? Like Tomb Raider, I don't think there were many difference between X-Box and 360 version right?

iii) Which is better? Winning 11 or this game? I'm still waiting for the reviews of this game..

I have the PS2 version.. Looks and plays real nice so just wondering whether it is worth it to play on 360, which is collecting dust.. Thanks bro's!

Played a few matches with UK fella in Live..1 word..lag..most of the goals was done during laggy...haha......I wonder how they go with the ranked match stuff...no multiplayer achivements though...

Software boutique is selling the Asia version, so you have no problem playing it.

Graphics should be much, much superior. Close up, the players have that Fight Night look on them, which the PS2 could never do. But then again, when you're playing, you can't really see much of it considering the camera angles.

Most definitely, I have to say that WE is still superior to this game. But if you're looking for a football game to distract you whilst waiting for WE 360 (whenever that comes out), WC is still a decent game.



Hmm....might be the camera angle that I'm using. Are you on the default camera angle?

This post has been edited by Darkchaser: Apr 29 2006, 07:45 AM

Im using the dafault camera angle .. did not change it at all.

SB no longer giving discount, they are currently using points system, whenever u purchase games or anything from SB, u will get points, with those points, u could exchange it with certain items in SB.

Played online just now ... the lag is horrid. My opponent was using USA and I was using France, lost 1-2. Its so lag.

You guys are just confirming that I wasn't the only one lagging. Thanks ... now I don't feel so bad!!

My ONLY lag-free online game so far has been with Zincast.

But yeah, this sucks man. Screw EA!!

Hehe ... if u play with Zincast ... sure no lag wan bcos he using 2MB SG line.

me in singapore now, they are having the xboxScup in preparation for the World Cup, i guess. was in funan centre just now, and there were xbox360 booth just playing this game.

When u r coming back to Malaysia .. perhaps u could get games for me ?

I don't think it's just the line. I'm on 8MB dedicated bandwidth package and it still lags when I play with locals on similar bandwidth.

Just some experience in LIVE...if I host...not so lag lar..sometime no lag at all..but if I join...damn lag...wondering if anyone encounter that before....some more 1 thing is when u join the game....u'll be like restarting..going into the EA screen..load from HDD...then only connecting into EA server..anyone of u guys having the same issue?

This post has been edited by vivaldi: Apr 29 2006, 07:59 PM

Yeah ... i have that also, before going to EA server, the HDD menu will pop-up prompting u to load HHD. So, tonite ... we play .. okie

OT: Chelsea 1 Manu 0 ... kekeke

Bah! 2-0 liao. Not watching.

Edit - screwed for 3-0.

This post has been edited by terranova: Apr 29 2006, 09:08 PM

Bwahahaaa....chelsea win in style.....

ok

since every got the game

i think we should proposed a league match.

any ideas?

beware of Terranova,he is so darn good with his England team.

eh jay, don't buaya people la ..... i got my a$$ whipped by jaylike.

Yesterday night played with Jaylike right after the Chelsea match, got my arse kick by Jaylike, he is good. Careful.

What surprised me was, it did not lag at all .. i was like "WOW .. no lag". Perhaps the lagness is due to the internet connection during that time period.

Everyone watching Man U vs Chelsea match, nobody playing FIFA.

Jeez...hope that i can join u guys and have some @ss kicking match...but too bad..I still will be unavailable till Monday...sigh...

thomassux is top of leaderboard on my friends list. wohooo!!

tm goes down when i wanted to have some kickin..

Haha.... ... it is ok la... still I lost to Jaylike.... JAY!!! payback time!!!

Yeah I want Revenge on jay!!

I also want revenged ... no more revenge in Burnout .. now all revenge in World Cup

yo,take it easy guys.

anyway,it seems getting better if play locally. just now played wif ThomasSux, lag free game.

and he is quite good with his Italy. beware of him.

i need to play with Jay as soon as i get back my internet connection..

So many people r good..I wonder why I am always not in that group...uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

@Silencer

who said your not good man,i still remember your ALI's skill in FNR3. u r darn good man..

anyway,

any match tonight?

- Edited -

This post has been edited by calvin: May 2 2006, 08:07 AM

Honestly, I tried it by playing Brazil team against Equador and I got beaten by big margin, 7-0....once the live connection is on again, I'm going to load up the weapon as an engineer in the battlefield, and going to spread the land mines aroung the whole map..just like what george bush did in iraq.hehehehehe

This post has been edited by silencer: May 3 2006, 12:10 AM