The Trouble with FIFA Soccer Games

Back in the days of the Sega Mega Drive, or for the North American fans the Genesis; there was a football game that was launched that over shadowed any other. The game I’m speaking of is the EA Sports classic of Fifa.

Each year most school children waited with anticipation for the next one in the series, and each year they became better and better.

Fun to play, not too serious and you didn’t have to be a massive football fan to enjoy the game either due to its excellent feature of being pretty much pick up and play.
But then of course came Pro Evolution Soccer many years after that shook up the foundations of football gaming. Instead of the arcade feel of a football game Pro Evolution focused more on the realism factor of the game play. A large percentage of dedicated Fifa Soccer gamers ate it up and found themselves crossing over to what I would call the dark side.

As the years rolled on and each edition of Pro Evolution was adjudged to be better and better it appeared that the Fifa series of games might be in jeopardy until it did something to bring those fans back.

Slowly but surely the programmers added the Pro Evolution formula to it’s coding to create more of a realistic feel at a loss of the arcade feel it had in its early days.
And this is the trouble with the Fifa series.

In their attempts to catch up to Pro Evolution they have themselves become almost a knock off version of the game they are trying to be better than. Many of the features of the games these days just don’t have the pick up and play capability anymore, the casual gamer left by the wayside. Sitting here and listing the faults of the game is both tedious and would just be nit picking, I just hope that one day EA Sports will go back to putting the fun into it’s series.