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FIFA Street 2
By Harold Shiel
This game and its predecessor should be great. They have the world’s best players looking cool, playing fast-paced ‘street’ football in various underground locations with skills you and I could only dream of. But, sadly, it is dementing.
New touches like keepie-ups and the other such skills, coupled with more arcade-style features are nice, but not enough. The old problems linger, all too high in the mix.
When, having skillfully beaten each of the opposition players, I am peppering the opposition goal with well constructed and intricate crosses, resulting in vicious, ‘unstoppable’ shots, the goalkeeper manages to perform superhuman feats. The opposition then walk down to my goal and stroke the ball past my nigh-on disabled keeper. How can this be? One minute it is all going my way, then I can’t even move the right player. Fuckers!
This might sound like the bitter mumblings of a crap player but either way… you can fuck off; this fucking game drove me to the edge with its lack of fucking continuity and shit graphics, clearly made by cu… (That’s enough – Ed.) The tackling is unwieldy and the skills all too often look crap. There… I’m not bitter at all. Bastards.
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