UEFA Euro 2008 (PS3) Review

[RobRich]

It might have slipped some people's mind on these fair isles, but there is in fact a European Football competition this summer. Failures by national sides ensure that not many people in the UK will be rushing out to purchase a copy in order to recreate dramatic events in the real world. A far more likely reason might be to succeed where others have failed. Comments are frequently made about the churned out, year-after-year release of EA Sports-related products. I can just about understand the need of this for there is always going to be fresh blood for the franchise, however long it has been going, but I do have an issue with the release of UEFA Euro and FIFA World Cup editions subsequently every two years. Delving through my back catalogue I come to FIFA 98 by EA, this was the first in EA's series to include a special 'Road to the World Cup' mode; thus enabling you to compete through qualifiers to battle it out in the finals. This was included with the normal FIFA game no less. Since then somewhere down the line some bright spark at EA decided that they could make more money if they split this game in two and charge full price for both. What's left is a rather watered down, trying-hard, good-for-a-month edition in the form of UEFA Euro 2008.

Source: Play.tm