FIFA Soccer 06 (TimeMage)
Format: Advance
Genre: Sports
Developer: Exient Entertainment
Publisher:

Review
Not the best game to pull immediately after another soccer game. FIFA Soccer 06 is even shittier than it's 07 counterpart, which worries me about the rest of the soccer games that EA spewed out onto the GBA. The same awkward menu system and obnoxious rap music is in this one, but obviously a different song. The atari-looking player figures are the same as well. Truthfully speaking, I can't find all that much difference between the 06 and 07 games. EA is known for making shovelware titles, and this is just more of the same. I'm really not sure if ANYTHING was changed in between 06 and 07. In the review of 07 I did, I remember marking it that the players were sometimes unresponsive... well in this earlier version, it doesn't matter. Why? Because you can't hold the ball at all anyways. If you try to get the ball away from the enemy they'll just steal it back. Your allies are all retarded too, none of them advance forward. They all stay behind wherever you are. Kinda makes it hard to score goals ya know? On top of that, the enemy goalie assumes half the god damn field is their home.. so if you just kick the ball forward at all, you can expect their goalie to pick it up(gay) and throw it back, practically all the way to your goalie. I honestly have no patience for soccer anymore. Shit game, shit design, shit developer. Another thing too, If you go full on tie, what'll happen is a shootout of Out-of-Five. No explanation of how this works but yeah, it's crap too. You have less than a second to PREDICT where the ball is going to go and hope that you block it. Meanwhile the enemy AI will auto-read your actions every time. screw this game. Oh, yeah, credits in menu.

All in All, 1.5 score because it's shit. Bad controls, Delayed controls, Atari stick figure players, Input reading, Lying difficulty options, Bad music/sounds, Terrible Menu setup, Bad overall experience.

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