Fifa Football 2004 (USED) - GameCube (RESTART)

Since the beginning of the world, it is precisely the numbers that identify what is undoubtedly the best simulation of the most beautiful sport in the world. Once again we will be left speechless in front of the faithful replicas of the most famous champions - from Del Piero to Bobo Vieri, from Super Pippo Inzaghi to Totti, passing through all the other great names who are making the history of world football (including the players foreigners, from Ronaldo to Beckham to Zidane and so on...).

The extraordinary physical resemblance that virtual players can boast of their real counterparts is a result achieved thanks to the revolutionary graphics engine developed by EA. The painstaking motion capture sessions on professional footballers contributed to creating a game with amazing visual qualities. Naturally, being the  FIFA series, we are not only dealing with a game that is beautiful to look at, but also with an exquisite title to play - thanks to the updating of the animation database footballers, their control is more fluid and precise than in the past, allowing the player to dominate every single moment of the match.

Another innovation that EA introduced in FIFA Football  2004, probably the most important, is the so-called "Off the Ball" control, which allows the player to simultaneously control not only the ball carrier, but also a teammate. In this way it is possible to create actions of extraordinary complexity in such a natural and immediate way that we suspect that there is some magic behind them (it is not for nothing that Electronic Arts is the same company that makes the Harry Potter video games!).

What's new from FIFA Football 2004 they don't end there - Career mode puts us in the shoes of a club president, thus assuming full power over his future, buying and selling players until he takes him to the top of the national championship and beyond... In  FIFA Football 2004 each match presents itself as an experience with a splendidly televisual feel, thanks to the timely interventions of the two reporters (the excellent Giovanni Galli and Bruno Longhi) and the professional direction of the images, which highlights the salient moments of each match with replays and close-ups .