Rating: 
Summary: The worst game of the series after FIFA 2000.
Review: Good:
1- Free kicks are real as they are never been before in the series.
2- The presence of Portuguese and Dutch championships.
3- The presence of the minor divisions of the most important European championships (but...see bad n. 6).
Bad:
1- The game is too big. 64 megabytes ? The game often crash in my 256 megabytes portable PC !
2- The career modality is very, very boring...
3- We cannot create personal tournaments : it was possible from FIFA 99.
4- Between the tournaments we can play, there are not Champions League and EFA Cup : we can play European Cup, only after a (long) national championship.
5- The details of the t-shirts are good only at the moment of the team's choice, not in the match.
6- We cannot save replays.
7- Four English division are too much : it was better to place other another (or two) national championship (Israeli or Greek or Turkish or...) and to offer more teams in Rest of the World section.
8- National teams are very few.
9- Penalty kicks are too much rare.
Conclusions: FIFA 2004 is probably the worst game of the series after FIFA 2000.
Rating: 
Summary: totally awesome soccer computer game
Review: This game exemplfies a perfect soccer game. I got it as a present and can't stop playing it is soooooo perfect. You can put yourself right in. It takes good management skills to manage your career to a championship. A person who doesn't play soccer could find this game awesome.
Rating:
Summary: Better than last year!
Review: FIFA 2004 is a better than FIFA 2003. The graphics are amazing and each player actual looks very real. The passing is pretty easy like on FIFA 2003, but shooting is easier(which is a relief). A bad part of the game is tackling, it is harder and the other team can get through your defense more often.
The setup of the main screen is very good and you have more options throughout FIFA 2004. IF YOU NEED A SOCCER GAME, HERE'S YOUR GAME!
Rating: 
Summary: Time to switch to PES 3
Review: Believe me, I am (or used to be, I guess) a hardcore fifa fan. My roommate kept making fun of me because I would spend a whole day just playing fifa and cheering as I purchased Smertin from Portsmouth for Celta Vigo...However, after having something to compare to, I realised how much this game really sucks. No, of course, it's not the worst. Compared, for example, to fifa 2003, this game is the pinnacle of technology and realism. The graphics are amazing, the details of players are awesome, the soundtrack is cool, the cinematics are amazing, the commentaries are fun. They brought back the old fifa 2002-style tackling (e.g, when you press the tackle button, your player tackles... he doesn't wait for the opponent to come and then tackle), they brought back the 2002-heading (couldn't head really in 2003). Off the ball control DOES make crosses awesome. I would make a run on the wing and then use off the ball control to cross , chest, and volley the ball into the net. Pretty cool, but after you do it 20 times and see the world-class difficulty Juventus defender just kinda standing there not trying to stop you at all as you do it, you start thinking "what the hell?". So I tried to score without crosses. Yea, right, good luck have fun. Even on amateur difficulty, the defenders are so amazingly good and block off the ball so amazingly well there is NO WAY you can make a pass in the box that won't be intercepted and kicked out. Through passes require like a month of non stop gaming to master, which I decided not to do, since that's not the kind of thing I like. So then I tried to do moves. The only move that works is the fake, when your player fakes on way, sprints another way, but then in the box it's impossible to use because there is always a second defender that will take the ball from you before you get to it. So it's only useful in midfield. I actually did find a way to score without crosses, eventually. It was to shoot from 40 yards out. Sounds funny, but my 40 out of 100 in shooting power and accuracy defender shot 4 out 5 shots on target and scored on two of them. Replay shows how the stupid keeper does a little bunny hop before attempting to go for the ball, which, by that time, is already safely in the net. Another big dissappointment are the player stats. FIFA follows the crowd. Unlike in Pro Evolution Soccer (known here as Winning Eleven), EA Sports makes ratings of players more or less the way people think about them. I mean, c'mon, Renaldo = 98? That means he's nearly perfect. That means he can play defender, midfield, and forward nearly equally alike, which we all know is not true... I saw Mostovoi being an 82 and Sychev being an 84, and the Smertin, who is one of the best Russian players out there, is a 73 for some reason. So how does that work? I'm not even mentioning that the Russian Premiere League is not even there. Not that anyone cares. But Lokomotiv Moscow (which is the 1/8 finals of Champions League right now) definitely should be in the Rest of the World section, at least. And this applies to many other countries. But EA decided to kind of ignore them. So there ya go. This game might be fun for 6 months, a year maybe at the most, but as soon as you see Winning XI, uninstall FIFA and play W11, because W11 is godly compared to this piece of crap.
Rating:
Summary: cool
Review: this game has amazing graphics and great game play. it is not hard to learn but not easy, it has great teams to pick from like manchester united,awesome tornements like the uefa cup, an awesome game..........the only bad thing is that it has thiery henry on the front........... GOO MANCHESTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rating:
Summary: The Best
Review: Firstly the only complaints I have is about the menus, they were much better in FIFA 2003 and didn't require scrolling left to right and the clicking doesn't always register. Now for the best part, the graphics are great and the play is realistic. For people who can't handle realistic, stick to playing on your PS2's and Nintendo's . I have no idea what people are talking about when they say they can only score from right infront of the net. I've think I've scored in all ways possible, it just takes practice and a good team. Maybe it's because I always play as Manchester United, being originally from Manchester, but I've had no troubles other than the menus. It really does look like you're watching it on TV, it's that realistic looking.
Rating:
Summary: Better than before! SOOOOOOO REAL!!!!
Review: Have been a fan of the FIFA franchise since 1996. Played each and every one of them. This time it's for real. Realistic players, movements, skills, defending, attacking... it's like watching a game on TV! Play it and you'll know!
Rating:
Summary: For better or worse, the game is closer to real soccer
Review: A lot of reviews here say they don't like the game because it is not soccer/football but I think they have it wrong. They have gotten closer to actual soccer play than they have in the past, and this may make it less fun for people (thus the comments about poor gameplay). They have gotten away from an arcade type of game to more of a simulation. They probably did this do get away from existing arcade type games like Winning Eleven which is pretty popular. Gameplay-
Players have momentum and so they won't turn on a dime, and they also can't dribble the ball for very long unless there is nobody around. It is all about passing, and even passing won't work unless you thread them through defenders and make sure the player getting the pass moves toward the ball to avoid being tackled right away. When your striker is in or near the penalty box, don't expect a lot of time to shoot either, defenders will swarm on him. You can also lead other players to start running to open field so you can pass to them as well, to rely less on the AI. On defense, not much problem, you will obviously get a penalty if you tackle from behind, or if your tackle doesn't get the ball but the player's foot. Overall I found it pretty fair but it's too bad you can't adjust these settings. All of these factors make the game a lot closer to "real" soccer, except that they have gone too aggresive on the no-dribbling issue. However real the gameplay has gotten, the game still needs better balance. Basically the point of the game now is to pass around until you can connect to your striker, and the game sometimes feels like hockey, trying to set up a one-timer. Once you get the ball to him, strikers can score from outside the box with ease, not too realistic here. Headers are weak and hard to connect since the defenders will be pulling you and pushing you (this is realistic). It is pretty much impossible to cut into the box from different angles to shoot from close as well. Other-
Graphics are amazing (players really look like their real life counterparts) and the number of teams available is dizzying. Menus are very counter-intuitive, and hard to navigate through. Conclusion-
I played the demo of Pro-Evolution Soccer on PC (same as Winning Eleven) and found it to be more fun. More ways to score (more headers, cutting into the box and scoring from close, etc...) with a more arcade feel that I prefer. It's good that they try to get the game close to the real thing, but they just haven't gotten the balance right. I found the older FIFA games (99 or 00 don't remember) more fun.
Rating: 
Summary: Very bad soccer game.
Review: It looks a lot like fifa 2003, of course with some improvements but still the gameplay is not realistic. Graphics look good, players look real but its all useless because you can't play soccer as it is meant to be played, headers suck, the goalkeepers are robots stuck in the goal line. There is too many things to criticize but only to make things short, if you want a soccer game that makes you jump off your seat whenever you score or miss a goal, buy winning eleven, it is by far much more attractive due to its gameplay.
Rating:
Summary: Frustrating Menus, Career Mode Bad, Where's Andy Gray?
Review: I'm not heavy duty into the graphics needing an overhaul every year, but basically ran out to get this because of the promise that the career mode offered. Very minimal instruction booklet. The bad news starts straight away for me. The game kept minimizing in windows and could not be recovered without turning the computer off and restarting. Happens everytime I try to play it if I run any other major application before trying to start FIFA 2004. Once playing it appears stable. More bad news. Screen upon screen of menus to sort through. For some reason the mouse pointer is not very good, and feels sticky. Clicks don't seem to regsister unless done "just right" on the menu buttons. I thought this was just my problem, but have seen mention of it on other sites as well. Information is painful to access. Things like league tables are displayed in font sizes far too large - meaning you have to both scroll up and down AND side to side to read the whole table. I.e. on the league table it only shows 8 of the 20 teams (up/down), and only games "Played" "Won" "Drawn" before requiring a scroll to the left to see "Lost" etc. Likewise player rosters require a constant up and down and side to side click fest. I don't understand how something this bad even gets into a beta test, let alone in a release version. All this is super annoying because of the mouse problems noted above. The Career Mode is very weak. The Prestige concept is good in theory, but even pouring all your training into a couple of players nets only a 4-5% increase in skill over the course of the entire season. In other words - you simply can't whip a minor league team into shape though cleverly managing training. Everyone has got to be traded away like a box of unwanted kittens. Trading players. Wish I could tell you something about trading players. I can't buy or sell players. I access the trading screen, and all it says is "the trading window is closed". I get information every week that teams are interested buying in my players, I want to sell, but... "the trading window is closed". It doesn't appear to be possible to play a season through unless you are in Career Mode. The other options being tournments or practice. Thats right - you HAVE to play in Career Mode. The gameplay itself is okay. I'm finding it less enjoyable than some of the earlier versions, but overall it's okay. The facial graphics are really really good, but I like to play with the camera set to "Tele" and overall it looks worse than FIFA 2002 from that view. (I didn't play FIFA 2003) The best thing about the game is John Motson as play-by-play (That earns the one star) But where's Andy Gray? I miss Old Potatoface. Anyway,I regret trading my FIFA 2002 World Cup copy in towards buying this. If s*** this bad came out of my a** I'd want to see a doctor.
| 
