{"id":289,"date":"2006-05-17T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T19:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guapacha.com\/2006\/mini-review-2006-fifa-world-cup-for-xbox\/"},"modified":"2006-05-17T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T19:01:13","slug":"mini-review-2006-fifa-world-cup-for-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Mini-Review: 2006 FIFA World Cup for Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"30%\" vspace=\"2\" hspace=\"2\" height=\"30%\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/eademo.phosworks.se\/images\/screenshots\/75817-General%20Screens_14.JPG\" \/>The World Cup is almost here so what better way to get in the mood than <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.easports2006fifaworldcup.com\/home.asp?lang=us\">2006 FIFA World Cup<\/a> from EA Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I have to report that my general mood was of frustration with the game. Biggest problem is probably one of their big selling points &#8211; realistic stadium shading. Playing an afternoon game cast a huge dark shadow over a large part of the pitch and every time the action moved into it I could barely make out the players on my TV. I quickly grew to prefer evening kick-offs. There is also some choppiness in the game, it doesn&#8217;t play smoothly like the other FIFA games I have (&#8217;05 and &#8217;06).<\/p>\n<p>I expected it to play like FIFA &#8217;06 but it doesn&#8217;t. I found making an attack much more difficult that before, the players didn&#8217;t seem to run into position like before. Now this could be because of the new control system but it seems that someone familiar with previous versions shouldn&#8217;t have to struggle.<\/p>\n<p>The commentary is pretty good though I do miss the good old days of John Motson and Ally McCoist which I think is the pinnacle of in-game commentary, somehow they managed to capture the genuine humour between the two that existed in real life. You don&#8217;t get the same feel from Andy Gray (who I believe is the commentator for this series).<\/p>\n<p>Over all, I am a little disappointed, but the fact that I get to play the current World Cup draw helps make up for that. So, I give it <strong>3.5<\/strong> out of 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Cup is almost here so what better way to get in the mood than 2006 FIFA World Cup from EA Sports. Sadly, I have to report that my general mood was of frustration with the game. Biggest problem is probably one of their big selling points &#8211; realistic stadium shading. Playing an afternoon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}