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FIFA Street 3

Release Date: 2/18/2008

FIFA Street 3 brings to life soccer superstars from around the world as stylized action heroes in the ultimate arcade soccer experience. Hit the streets with some of the best pro players and experience all the style and attitude of street soccer. Decked out in authentic training kits and street wear, every player boasts their own distinctive style of play with unique abilities to match. Whether you're after brawn, brains, silky skills, or crunching tackles, the perfect street team is out there.

Take your soccer heroes to the streets and experience the revolution in street soccer.

FIFA Street 3

New controls and trick system: Ultra-responsive controls and an easy-to-use trick system give you instant control over your idols. Combine flicks, drags, and traps to pull off impossible moves. There are hundreds of different ways to show off your street skills, and show you've hit the big time.
Team of heroes: Choose from over 250 of the world's best players representing 18 of the top international teams, plus hidden extras. Choose from Tricksters, Enforcers, Playmakers, and Finishers to give you different skill sets and options on the ball.
Game Breaker: Fill your new Game Breaker momentum meter to unleash a whole new set of over-the-top tricks and electrifying moves. Leap past defenders, flip over teammates, or perform gravity-defying one-timers to score spectacular goals when the game is on the line.
Game modes: Try out the new Street Challenge mode, and play in a variety of different tournaments to unlock new hidden street teams and players for both online and offline play. Or go head-to-head in a best-of series against a friend, and customize the rules of each match.
Online play: Wear your country's colors with pride as you represent your nation in the Online World Challenge. Every game counts, as you and your fellow supporters combine results in the World Challenge tournament featuring up to 18 teams. Or take it to the playground by bringing your game online and building an all-star street team. Take the world's best players, line them up and take turns to select one to join your team. Prepare for bruised egos!
Exotic interactive environments:Challenge your rivals in the hottest locales around the world, from the urban playgrounds of South America to rooftops in Asia and the streets of Europe. Immerse yourself in a hyper-real world where players run up walls, environments pulsate to the music, and your surroundings explode to life with every well-timed tackle, outrageous trick move, or unstoppable shot on goal.

From: http://reviews.teamxbox.com/

The one- or two-button-mashing sports sim is dead, and Electronic Arts killed it. Sure, the king of sports video games used to make NFL, NBA and NHL games that could be played with a single stick and just a few nodule presses per play, but the HD era has ushered in titles that demand a gaggle of controller inputs—not to mention a computer-science degree to figure out.

The same goes for EA’s current world football title, FIFA Soccer 08, which, when played to its potential, is about as complex as current video gaming can get. Luckily for all of us soccer fans not looking to re-create the game to a “T” that EA also produces pitch play under the EA Sports BIG catalog of extreme games—with the “BIG” being more about BIG attitude and BIG pick-up-and-play entertainment than it is about BIG headaches trying to figure out how to program a one-touch pass or what defense to pick against an onslaught-style offense.

The latest dumbed-down soccer title from BIG is, not surprisingly, entitled FIFA Street 3; following the current trend of BIG’s entire lot of Street-branded titles. The Street games have gone through some transformations over the years, but as we’ve learned with FIFA Street 3, EA seems is definitely coming closer to nailing that proper blend of mindful and mindless gaming necessary in a BIG-branded version.

Better art means a better Street.

You won’t even need to get into an actual match to learn how visually appealing FIFA Street 3 is. The static character models and tag-style urban graphics scheme are an excellent indication of what’s in store for the user in FIFA Street 3. Inside, the treats keep on coming, as character animations possess none of that herky-jerkyness sometimes attributed to EA’s current lineup of regular HD sports pieces—it’s 60fps for sure. The art direction continues on in the form of stylish particle effects, hipster health bars and icons, and interesting pitch locales gleaned from all over the planet. You can’t really argue with how the designers represented the 250 or so real players from FIFA, either. They each have enough personality to pretty much be unmistakable to the football fan (not pigskin fans, of course), but not cartoon-y to the point where they are complete parodies of whoever they are meant to represent.

We bring the visuals up first in FIFA Street 3’s case not only because presentation is a large component of an extreme-style game, but also because this is the franchise’s first foray onto the Xbox 360. Do they satisfy? Pretty much on all accounts. The depth-of-field and general blur on the backgrounds and pitches could have been dialed back a bit, and the new Gamebreaker—although a bit more engaging (but notice we didn’t say better) gameplay-wise—isn’t the all-out visual onslaught that it used to be. But we’re buying most of what EA Sports BIG is sellin’ to our eyeballs this time around.

Next up is the online functionality of FIFA Street 3. Yeah, we’ve put off talking about the actual gameplay yet, again because this is the series’ first real-run in with the always-on demands of consumers these days. It wasn’t long ago that we’d bash even EA’s regular sports games for the lack of online functionality on the Xbox 360, but such a lashing is not needed for FIFA Street 3. With support for up to eight players, FIFA Street 3 is already in our favor as a top-shelf extreme game to play via Live. EA Canada also made sure that FIFA Street 3 mimicked its big brother with the World Challenge mode that enables tournament-style play, not to mention unrelenting support for a user’s home colors. Things were taken a bit further with the ability to play Street Challenge (the tourney-style unlock mode) online as well. Assembling a squad full of superstars in a similar manner as you picked your dodge ball team in grade school is a bit of icing on the cake for FIFA Street 3’s online arena.