Summary

FIFA 07 delivers complete authenticity with licenses for all the worlds top leagues, including MLS and Mexican 1st Division in North America, and 26 others from over 20 nations. This year, you have the power to shape your club's destiny in the EA sports Interactive Leagues, a new online mode that enables you to pit your club against supporters of your real-world opponents. The online interactive leagues feature the F.A. Premier League, Bundesliga, French league and the Mexican 1st Division. Experience the future of onine gaming as you play your games a ccording to the real-world schedule. When they play, you play. Track your team's progress as the aggregate results determine your club's position in the league table. This year, new intelligent A.I, ensures that your 11 men on the pitch make realistic decisions, finding space and passing like professionals. A complete overhaul of the game engine now means that you have to employ real world tactics, make split-second decisions and think like a player in order to win matches. Watch as your players jostle and collide realistically while trying to win balls. Experience the realism of the World's superstars, who come to life with signiture moves and authentic playing styles and a more sophisticated shooting mechanic that gives you greater control to produce finesse shots. Plus you have the ability to apply topspin or backsipn to the ball for creative set-peices.

Review
9 out of 10 Stars
Jack Cosman / www.gamerankings.com

FIFA 07 features an all-new, total online integratuin system that does a remarkable job of connecting your team's season play with that of the club's real-life counterpart. By incorperating iteractive online league play into this year's game, you can now play along with your team's real rivals and schedules for the duration of that club's season complete with a continuously updated online sports ticker and online podcasts. Sound ambitious? It is, but EA knows FIFA 07 is just the sirt of high-caliber title to pull it off, and so far we're convinced, too. The non-internet inclined gamer can also still hash it out with private tournaments and competitive matches for up to eight players.
The engrossing team management feature has also been tweaked, accounting for more accurate player value ratings and salaries. Like the famous franchise mode in the Madden NFL Football series, the new management option allows you to hire and fire and adjust wages to attract and keep star players by making strategic decisions that have a direct effect on how your team performs. The opposing team's managers have also gotten smarter, and are more likely to make cunning decisions to defeat you before your teams ever hit the pitch.
Both friendly and opposing AI has also undergone a deserved upgrade in this year's installment. Players on both teams now make much smarter decisions, and react more realistically to changing situations on field, as they fight for open space and pass intelligently. While this makes playing with CPU controlled teammates much more enjoyable, it also means competitive league matches are now much more competitive and the chances of achieving a blowout aer now extreamely small.
The number of new features in this year's FIFA is impressive. The game engine itself has been overhauled to allow for more realistic passing and team positioning, as your 10 teammates scramble to setup key plays. New ball physics also introduce better bouncing and skidding, as well as topspin and backspin - thereby giving advanced players better control over the ball and allowing for careful finesse shots. Plus, you can create your own club from scatch, designing every aspect of the team form the emblem to their individual style of play, giving the game as added touch of customization.
One particularly cool new feature is the awsome ability to transfer your Manager Mode career data between your PS2 and PSP, allowing you to play with and develop your same team no matter where you are. And with over 510 real teams from 27 leagues and 20 diffenent nations, FIFA 07 has every angle of realism covered.