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While certainly an improvement over the previous game, FIFA Street 3 is too easy and too repetitive to have lasting appeal.
Specifications: ESRB: Everyone; Genre: Sports; Elements: Sports - soccer simulation; See full specs
Price range: $17.99 - $19.99
Gamespot editors' review
- Reviewed on: 03/03/2008
- Released on: 02/18/2008
In the world of FIFA Street, soccer isn't just about scoring more goals than your opponent; it's about humiliating your opponent at every opportunity. FIFA Street 3 from EA Sports Big tasks you with leading a squad of famous players to victory against other teams from all over the world, taking in some unusual locations along the way. The action is fast-paced and fun for a while. However, the single-player game gets repetitive all too quickly and the multiplayer options are too limited to have lasting appeal.
FIFA Street 3 makes a good impression the first time you kick off a match. The numerous environments--which range from playgrounds and beaches to an oil rig and a city rooftop--are nicely detailed. Although the players are difficult to tell apart unless they have radically different hair or skin colors, they're very well animated. The game's upbeat soundtrack is a good fit, and while the sound effects don't do anything special, they're certainly not offensive.
Even the game's more spectacular tricks are a breeze to perform.
Getting to grips with the controls might take you a match or two, but regardless of whether you choose to play with the stylus or with the face buttons, they're uncomplicated and responsive. The best place for you to familiarize yourself with the controls would be the quick match "game on" mode, but that's really only a warm-up for the game proper, which is the street challenge mode.
The single-player street challenge mode sets you up with a handful of second tier professional soccer players and tasks you with making them the most respected four-on-four street soccer squad in the world. Only a few different destinations will be available for you to travel to at the outset, but as you earn respect by winning games and tournaments, you'll unlock plenty more. The amount of respect you earn for winning an event is determined not only by the result, but also by the manner in which you win. So, if you keep a clean sheet while putting five goals past the opposing keeper and running rings around the outfield players, you can expect to reap more respect points than if you win a closely contested game, using very few tricks. It would make for an interesting risk-versus-reward mechanic, except that there's really nothing risky about performing tricks in FIFA Street 3.
Spectacular "beat" moves and tricks can be pulled off quite effortlessly by even the least skilled players on your team roster. Provided you choose the right moves for the right situations, there's very little that an artificial intelligence opponent can do about it. That's because a good number of the trick animations require the opponent getting beaten to fall over, stumble, or turn the wrong way on cue. The AI players seemingly go out of their way to please you in this regard, though the flipside is that players on your team will occasionally do the same thing--even if you're controlling them at the time.
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