Back in the days of the Master System and the Super Nintendo, football games like Sensible Soccer ruled with simple graphics and basic controls paired with lightning fast gameplay. With the limited resources at hand, we'd have preferred a football game that focused on speed rather than trying to emulate reality in any way. The game performance was smooth, but the game moves too slowly to be exciting - the virtual players look bored as they jog slowly across the pitch. Controlling the action using the N96 hurt our fingers after four or five matches and the layout of the keys was the cause of many in-game foibles, like passing the ball in the wrong direction. Both features are common in the newer football games on the Xbox 360 and PS3, and we were impressed to see them in this pared down version.įIFA 09 is a deeper football experience than we'd have expected on N-Gage, but for all the game modes and replay camera angles, it isn't that much fun to play. Also, players can perform two different "skill moves" on offence the Marseilles turn and a step-over move.
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You can fast forward and rewind replays that can be watched from a variety of camera modes, including a Free camera mode that rotates the view to best watch your stunning goals. FIFA 09 keeps replays of all the major events during a match that can be viewed post-match via the Highlights menu. Overall, the gameplay feels sluggish, like a slow-motion dream of an actual soccer video game. At the bottom of the screen is a tiny map showing the location of players outside your field of vision, but it is a constant struggle to figure out if the pass you're planning to make will be successful. Players' movements are sludgy and responds to controls slower than we'd have liked to see. Simple graphics and simple controls are ticked boxes, but this doesn't add up to a fun football game.
While new football games on the next-gen consoles use all eight buttons on the controllers, this two-button system is more than adequate. Using a dual-sliding Nokia N96, we controlled the players with the five-way nav key and the two dedicated gaming keys under the top slide for passing and shooting. Playing FIFA 09 on a Nokia phone feels like playing a soccer game on the Sega Master System.
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