The bump mapping used on the fabrics and textures looks very realistic in making the jerseys look porous and the socks have a very fuzzy feel to them which I thought was really cool. Here is the first time you get a good chance to really get a good look at the player models and for the most part they are impressive. So I picked South Korea and was treated to a little line-up of Korea’s midfield looking somewhat tough at the fifty yard line. The game asks you to set up your favorite team and searched the list of teams, disappointed to find out that the list of World Cup “Qualifiers” was inaccurate (where’s Trinidad and Tobago?). I looked at the game’s box cover, it’s Ronaldinho all right, busted teeth and all, but he’s wearing a Brazil jersey, not a Barca one. All of the teams were national teams, not club teams. It was then that I realized something was up.
I fired up FIFA 06: RTWC and waited for the opening movie and was impressed with the visual styling and graphics along with the sights and sounds of the pitch, it is all very daunting and dazzling to begin with. This year’s FIFA 06 for X-Box is perhaps the best iteration of the series in many years, so I was excited to see the game transposed into the 360’s environs. There is Winning Eleven which is slowly growing in popularity, but FIFA boasts EA’s common design traits that make the game look and feel more like a television presentation and FIFA still also holds exclusivity rights over the major leagues from around the world. EA Earns Yet Another Yellow Card for its X-Box 360 Franchise…įIFA is widely accepted as being the most popular soccer game for consoles.