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FIFA Soccer 2004 features eighteen leagues, with thirty-five national teams and over ten thousand players. Take them into a multi-season career, or individual tournaments or matches.

Like EA’s other 2004 games it has an in-depth career mode, where you must manage your budget and team. Promote players, demote players, and renegotiate contracts, all in an effort to get your team to the finals again and again.

The skills to master range from kicked passes and headers to lob passes and bicycle kicks. You can take control of players before the ball reaches them, which makes it easier to find space to take the ball. Like other 2004 titles, FIFA uses the right analog stick for it’s Freestyle gameplay. …

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FIFA 2003 continues the trend of improving each year’s new release by keeping the formula that worked, while also adding new features to make the game more enjoyable.

Some of these new features including a “Freestyle” control, which is activated by the right thumbstick, causing you to do special moves, such as a deke, or kick the ball a fair length forwards to gain some speed.

New and improved “dead ball” control makes corner kicks, free kicks, etc. more controllable and gives you more options. The passing game has been improved to allow better passing by kicking directly to a teammate, passing to nowhere in particular, or open passing to allow anybody to take it.

FIFA 2003 includes all FIFA clubs, leagues, and players. …

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Released one month before the actual World Cup 2006, this game lets players play all the matches before they even started. Featuring 12 official German stadiums and all the teams that qualified for the World Cup 2006 in Germany, plus additional teams and unlockable classic players. The playable modes let you try any of the qualifying stages or skip right to the world cup mode assuming as one of the qualified teams. Additional modes include Global Challenge where you can replay 40 historical moments in football history to change the outcome and various multiplayer matches. …

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Released only a few months after Euro 2004, FIFA 2005 brings several features to the franchise, such as the return of a player creation tool, where a player can be created from scratch from customizing the face (while it’s not possible to define the texture like in previous EA Sports games such as NHL 2000, the player can customize the facial features such as shape of the eyes or the cheeks, in a way similar to RPGs such as Neverwinter Nights), accessories and playing abilities. It’s also possible to create all kinds of competitions. The Career mode was also extended, allowing now up to 15 seasons, and giving the player the chance to turn the tide of a simulated match anytime. This mode is a “light” managerial mode, where the player not only plays, but also signs new players and increases the club’s abilities in trainers, medical staff, and other club staff).

The main gameplay change was the addition of “First Touch” controls. By performing one of the “trick” moves before the player gets possession of the ball it’s possible to do a number of moves, such as touching the ball forward to gain a few yards ahead of the defenders or touch the ball to one side, and roll to the other of a rushing defender, and then pick up up the ball a bit ahead leaving the opponent stranded, and the inclusion of a fake shot move, which allows forwards to sit a goalkeeper before scoring in style or make defenders jump from their positions, opening room for a through pass or a run into the goal. Other aspects of the game, such as the “Off The Ball” controls (allows the control of players that aren’t in possession, moving them into an open position) remain unchanged. …

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