FIFA Street 3 (PlayStation 3)

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If you're playing FIFA Street 3 solo, the street challenge mode is the only option you have other than setting up individual matches. Rather than being sorted by country, the players in street challenge mode are grouped into teams that are themed after their play styles, their builds, and even by the brands that they're affiliated with. You can unlock 25 of these teams as you progress through the mode's 30-plus challenges, and then they're available for use in multiplayer games. The difficulty curve in street challenge mode is nigh on perfect, though even the artificial intelligence of the toughest teams you come up against can be exploited to some extent. Having your defensive players pass the ball around among themselves at the back while your opponents' gamebreaker bar ticks down and only one of them attempts to retrieve the ball is easy to do, for example.

Gamebreakers don't guarantee goals, but they make scoring a lot easier.

Multiplayer competition is where FIFA Street 3 is at its best. Both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions support up to eight players online, and on a single console they support four and seven players, respectively. Multiplayer options include all of the same match types that feature in the street challenge mode, as well as a fun "playground picks" mode in which both team captains take it in turns to choose a player from the same national squad to form their five-man team before kickoff. When playing online there's also a "world challenge" mode in which results from players using the 18 national teams featured in the game are used to generate a league table of sorts. Searching for opponents online rarely took us more than a few minutes, though using the filter to find players of a similar skill level often just presented us with a message stating that no matches could be found. Very few of the matches that we played suffered from any lag, and even when they did it wasn't enough to be detrimental to the gameplay.

In case you're wondering about the differences between the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of FIFA Street 3, there really aren't many. The PS3 version's player models have jagged edges where their Xbox 360 counterparts are pretty smooth, and we noticed a couple of stutters in the frame rate on the PS3; but they're essentially the same game. The Xbox 360 version features achievement points, of course, and to earn the full 1,000 you'll have to prove yourself in street challenge mode, online, and against at least one other player on the same console.

FIFA Street 3 plays a more enjoyable game of street soccer than any of its predecessors, but the lack of anything resembling a career mode with player and team progression really hurts the single-player experience. This year's game ultimately marks an unfortunate victory for style over substance, but at least it was a close contest.

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