FIFA Soccer kicks its game up a few notches with new installment, FIFA Soccer 2004. This year's action features more advanced levels of player detail and responsiveness. Play as one of the best players from 16 leagues and 350 teams, from Europe's super leagues to the Americas. Plus, a new Career Mode gives you the chance to take a team from the lower divisions, battle through ranks, sign new players, and turn them into champions. With immersive atmospheres, total realism with the world's premier
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Product information

Publication Date

November 5, 2003

Computer Platform

Xbox

ASIN

B00009X3V6

Release date

November 5, 2003

Customer Reviews

3.1 20 ratings

3.1 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#122,405 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
#1,268 in Xbox Games

Product Dimensions

7.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 3.2 ounces

Type of item

Video Game

Rated

Everyone

Item model number

SNES

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Item Weight

3.2 ounces

Manufacturer

Electronic Arts

Date First Available

June 10, 2003

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All-new character modeling and animations, challenging modes and up-to-date rosters take "the other football" to new heights of championship play.

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For true soccer fans that demand the finest gameplay and comprehensive game modes, FIFA Soccer 2004 is the most complete and authentic soccer experience. FIFA's exclusive Off the Ball Control lets you control the man on the ball and the men off it. Timing runs, anticipating moves, positioning players and jostling for space adds a new dimension to soccer gaming. A new Career Mode gives you the chance to take a team from the lower divisions, battle through ranks, sign new players, and turn them into champions. The action is deeper than ever with advanced levels of player detail and responsiveness. With immersive atmospheres, benchmark presentation, total realism with the world's premier clubs, and industry-leading gameplay, FIFA returns as the true authority in soccer gaming.

Be your own player manager with FIFA's deep Career Mode and build your franchise while you guide your club to the Championship by making calculated front-office decisions. Manage your team's budget and promote or relegate your players to sustain franchise objectives on the pitch. When one season ends and another begins new challenges will present themselves.

More than 300 new crowd chants at an ever-growing list of officially licensed stadiums help put you in the best seat in the house. From stadiums small and large, no soccer gaming experience offers a more complete library of the game's authentic environments. More than 500 official licenses, including 16 leagues, 500 teams and 15,000 players are available. From the fast pace of Europe's super leagues to the Americas Club Championship, which allows you to play with the top clubs from Major League Soccer and South America, FIFA 2004 provides for the most authentic selection of the world's top teams, players, and environments.

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Ivan

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2015

Platform For Display: XboxVerified Purchase

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Milkman

Game looks great but controls and career mode need work

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2003

Platform For Display: Xbox

FIFA 2004 seeks to improve on 2003's version to compete with many competitors' games. EA always has the edge on licensing (hundreds of teams and thousands of authentic players), but as always, the ultimate test is the gameplay.
Gameplay was a bit arcadey last year. This year EA completely changed the gameplay to make it a bit more realistic. Ball physics seem more authentic. Defenses are tougher to crack. Scoring is really tough, but when you do it is usually a thing of beauty.
However, I still have a problem with the controls. The right thumbstick is used for the "freestyle control" dribble moves, but they are still to slow to engage. In real soccer you control the ball and use dribble moves to react to the defender and keep the ball away from him. Unfortunately these "freestyle" moves take so long to engage that the defender has already taken the ball. The fatal flaw in the control is that you have to predict the defender instead of react.
Also on the subject of controls, they changed the buttons for forward runs for off the ball players. In last year's version you could push the left trigger and send a man on a run toward open space... simple. In so doing, you stretch the defense and find an opening for a pass or dribble. This year, the controls are so difficult they are almost impossible to use in a functional way. You have to press four buttons just to get a player to go on a run! The sequence is: Left trigger, white button, right thumbstick, lob button. By the time you've accomplished that, the defender has certainly taken the ball away from you.
All in all, controls alternate between feeling muddy/slow and twitchy/over-precise. The game expects you to be perfect when you're directing a pass or shot. If you hold the thumbstick just a hair off, your shot will go sailing away, posing more danger to the corner flag than the goal.
On the positive side, EA added a new sequence for corner kicks and set plays that are so unique and cool they act like a mini-game. You choose your target for the kick, and then you take control of the recipient as he jostles for position. It is simple to learn but tough to get the goal, so it is really satisfying when you score.
Also, I love the fact that EA is finally giving us a career mode for FIFA. It is a five-year coaching simulation where you have certain criteria to get contract renewals. There is a lot of depth with training and transfers of players.
It's kind of high maintenance though... your players get out of shape if you play them too much, so it's almost impossible to keep a consistent lineup. I'm not even talking about injuries, just guys playing one game a week. It seems pretty heavy handed to me. You have to rotate guys every single game, and the menus aren't the easiest to navigate, so it's going to seriously hurt the addiction factor that could keep you going. Nothing like navigating stupid menus to make you want to turn off the game, ya know?
The features within Career Mode are confusing too. Training individual players fills in green bars in their attributes, but the attributes never go up. General training of the whole team doesn't seem to do anything at all. The transfer market is confusing and expensive to learn through trial and error.
Another thing I miss is a player editor. Now I'm not saying I want to make a team full of 99-rated Ronaldos, but I want to be able to tweak attributes a little. I also want to change the appearance of some players on my favorite clubs because EA gave them blond hair when it should have been black hair.
But the game looks absolutely beautiful. Last year's game looked good, but now lighting is tons better, and mo-cap animations are totally sweet. The in-game cinematics (like when someone scores or someone else gets a yellow card) are really cool. Sometimes the ref will give a red card and about five guys from each team will start fighting and shoving. Goal celebrations are really well done and usually show at least three members of the scoring team.
So, in review...
+ Licensing tons of real teams and players
+ Cinematics and animations look tremendous
+ Some aspects of gameplay are better
+ Career Mode... finally!
- Controls are complex and feel muddy
- Menus are horrible to navigate
- Career Mode is confusing

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Jason Johns

So Realistic So Hard

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2004

Platform For Display: Xbox

Great Thing: I can be Huddersfield (Division 3 in England).
Bad Thing: I can't control all 11 players on the pitch at the same time, with a single controller. No one can.
Electronic Arts need to have all the good things about FIFA without the extremely complex gameplay. How can you dribble the ball with player A, make a run into the box with player B, dodge a tackle from player X, send a perfect cross into the box to player B, and bury the ball into the back of the net past the goalie with player B? I don't see why I just can't hit a "cross" button and if player B is where he should be, I score like 30% of the time, kinda like real life. So what if the score is 6-5? That is fun, and sports games are fun with 4 people playing at the same time. Can't do that here, unless you have mental telepathy with your teammate.
If you are a video game junkie and want to "master" an intricate game via thumb gymnastics in one player mode, this is your game. There is no better looking soccer game, period. However, if you are impatient, and/or don't care that much for soccer, this is a tough sell. I for one am waiting for FIFA 2005 to look just like 2004 but play like FIFA 1998.

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S. White

Bend it like Thierry

Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2004

Platform For Display: Xbox

Being a 3rd generation Arsenal supporter I couldn't wait to get my hands on this game to have my own showdowns against Man Utd in my living room! The last of this series I played was FIFA 95 back in the 90's and though it was like Pac Man compared to this installment it was sooooo much fun.

I'm not going to detail the specs of the game and the features because there are dozens of reviews which already cover that. I will however attest to the playability and the fun factor. Before buying this game I kept reading reviews with complaints about how the game franchise was going down and getting worse and that the controls were virtually unplayable. I nearly didn't buy this game but decided to buy it anyway and give it a try with the knowledge I could return it within 24 hrs if it was a bust.

Well I bought it yesterday and played it for nearly 8 hours straight! Without even reading the manual I just played a few practice games to get a hang of what the controls are doing and bingo it was game on! While I will agree that some of the controls are not as ergonomoically well placed, I actually recall the FIFA 95 controls being a bit strange as well, until you get used to them. It didn't take me long to figure out how to start playing and winning and while the goals are harder to come by, they are not impossible to score and it is a definate bonus that the game is made tougher and more realistic.

As somebody said before with the goals being harder to come by it brings a sense of realism to the experience whereby when you do score it's a real celebration! I haven't even begun to explore 1/10th of all the features of this game yet and I'm happy to give it 4 stars. I think a poor choice from EA was to ommit a World Cup Tournament!!

What you need to know is whether this game rocks or not and whether you should buy it?

Answer = YES!

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Raphael Chevalier

Excellent produit à un prix incroyable

Reviewed in Canada on April 4, 2013

Platform For Display: XboxVerified Purchase

Considérant que le prix était de .01$, un service incroyable, Nous l'avons reçu en quelques jours. Je recommande le vendeur. Merci

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