FIFA 08 Official Thread

RuMp3l4$k1n said:
With the type of 'football' PES2008 is playing I couldn't give a toss about the achievements in it tbh. These ones in Fifa are vastly improved over 07s ridiculous grinds,a crossbar challenge one would be fun though. :)
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Aye, that would be a fun online game, cross bar challenge with a few friends. Thought they'd have implemented that by now!
 
Me and my mate did a crossbar challenge against each other in PES.

You have the full game, in turns, to hit your own crossbar. Most times wins. All have to be outside the area.
Go Co-Op on one side and make another pad (3rd player) the opponents.

Great laugh :p
 
In the Demo on the PS3 i have to change the controls everytime I load it! please tell the full game saves the control settings!!!

topher
 
I've got the Xbox360 version and it always saves mine because it saves to a profile.
I don't believe anything saves on the demo versions.
 
Just played this on PS2.

The animations are far from fluid (looks like lagging players on online matches, jumping around).

Also, does anyone find it gives them Motion sickness.


Seemed rubbish in comparison to PES6 imo.
 
georges said:
Just played this on PS2.

The animations are far from fluid (looks like lagging players on online matches, jumping around).

Also, does anyone find it gives them Motion sickness.


Seemed rubbish in comparison to PES6 imo.
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The animation in Fifa is excellent. You're playing an old, none next-gen engined version.
 
Just had a mental game with my mate on Live.

AC Milan 4 - 5 Bayern Munich.

I was leading 4-2 until the 85th minute, where he got a third, I thought I'll hold on, easy. He got a pen in the 87th min which I saved :D Luck was with me, only for a goal scramble to happen in the 95th minute and I accidentily crop one of this players :( Another penalty...He scored to make it 4-4!

Managed to sneak a header in in ET and win it though.

All good :D
 
Nice to see a few die hard Pro Evo fans enjoying this. Just shows it doesn't have to be a case of Pro Evo or nothing (Something which I have only recently realised myself).

We going for a rematch sometime Andy? Wouldn't mind testing my skills against Nokkon sometime either, except he's recently ditched me off his FL. :( :p
 
Yeah, now he's superior to us on here he thinks he can ditch us :(

However, he deleted me a while ago, I told him of my disatisfaction!

Send me a message when I'm next on,hopefully Gandy will play better :p ;)
 
He gave me the boot before just before his new found underboss status. :eek: **** :D :p

I'm sure we'll both be on sometime over the weekend so I'll give you another shot then. :D

Actually, I thought you played well tbh, especially considering there was two of you (Which I know how hard it can be to do co-op on footie games). I never felt in control of the game anyway that's for sure, despite whatever the scoreline may have been.

Been putting quite a bit of time into this over the past few days and have a few nice replays saved, will upload them when I get time.
 
How do I find out my online ranked stats?

if I go to My Fifa 08 > Fifa 08 Profiles > My XBOX Live Career, the first page displayed has me playing 26 games, now I presume these are both ranked and unranked. Is there a way to display information for just ranked games? I've just got the achievement for 10 ranked wins and I'm curious just how many I've lost, beat a guy that is 500th in the world which was quite impressive.

The top of the screen displays the following:
Rank: 7937 (My ranking in the world)
Rank Points: 639 (Presume the points I recieve from each game, how does the scoring work?)
Skill Level: 2 (Again, how do I get higher levels?)
DNF%: 0 (Games I quit?)
Cleansheets: 8
Streak: 3 (Wins in a row)
Avg Opp Level: 3 (Average skill level I've played?)

Is this info in the manual? Maybe I should look :p
 
I've had this game a week now and I'm enjoying it, I think. One thing is bugging me at the moment though....

Playing a manager mode game, the players don't seem to recover their energy very fast at all. I'm now at the point, 6 league games in, that every player in my team is knackered before the match even starts :(.
 
I don't have squad rotation, more team rotation! :)
I have to swap out all 10 outfield players every match, but even still the players who don't play, don't recover in time for the next match.
 
I tend to have to swap large parts of the team out at a time as well, although 1 games rest is generally more than enough recovery time.

To be honest every game I've ever played that has tried to force squad rotation has overdone it, it's one of the reasons Football Manager became less fun. Whilst squad rotation is a reality in modern day football, it's debatable whether or not it's a necessity, and certainly not to the extent that some games take it.

For example there are many real life players who almost never miss a game (I think Lampard once went 1 or 2 seasons without missing a game), this just would not be possible in FIFA. It is a minor annoyance, but definately one I can live with. Gives some of my younger players the chance to earn exp points anyway.
 
I'm struggling with this a bit. I used to have little problem scoring in FIFA07, but not this year.

Whenever I shoot, the keeper always saves it. Just about all of my goals haven been from rebounds after the keeper has saved the initial shot. If the keeper is good enough I can't score at all.

Also, buildup play is different. No chance of any "defence splitting" passes this time around, which is what I used to do in '07. If I try a through ball either the keeper comes racing out, or the defender always manages to get there first.

Any tips or suggestions?
 
Argh someone just quit on me in the 90th min as I scored 2 in the dying mins to beat him, and on my stats it didn't give me the win :(
Can we set up an OcUK league through the games create league mode? who's interested?
 
wedgie said:
Never heard of squad rotation? :p
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It's poor (in any game) that you have to swap large chunks of your team out because they tire too quickly. It doesn't happen in real life (unless you're Rafa Benitez) so it shouldn't happen in a game. The Master League in PES did this as well and I thought it was crap there too so I turned the enegy depletion off :)
 
Tute said:
I'm struggling with this a bit. I used to have little problem scoring in FIFA07, but not this year.

Whenever I shoot, the keeper always saves it. Just about all of my goals haven been from rebounds after the keeper has saved the initial shot. If the keeper is good enough I can't score at all.

Also, buildup play is different. No chance of any "defence splitting" passes this time around, which is what I used to do in '07. If I try a through ball either the keeper comes racing out, or the defender always manages to get there first.

Any tips or suggestions?
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Any ideas guys?
 
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