FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup (Xbox 360, 2005)

After playing EA-FIFA games since 1994, this has to be the biggest disappointment yet. I couldn’t believe that this is all EA can do to launch their Xbox 360 FIFA line !?! No club teams (O.K. - its "Road to World CUP) not enough Teams available, disappointing graphics, no flexibility (you have to play in mandatory friendlies and friendly-tournaments with very limited choices of opponents) and no really reward at the end - The World Cup is not available! - Truly a waste of money - I'll go back and play FIFA 05 on my x-box until there is a better soccer game out for the 360.

Man, I love this game!!! The graphics are intense. The aura is amazing. The control is better than I've played.

Graphic was very good, but the game wasn't so great than I thought and
I bought it because it was used and low price.

AN EXCELLENT GAME IT CHALLENGES YOU AS A PLAYER. OTHER GAMES YOU BLOW THE COMPUTER OUT BY 5 TO 10 GOALS. THIS IS MUCH MORE REALISTIC AND THE GRAPHICS ARE UNREAL.........

Ok, so getting over the fact that every game is going to look awesome compared to everything we've seen so far, from a gameplay aspect, I couldn't stand this game.

Three words: too many buton commands!

Wait was that four?

This game is waaaaaay to hard for a sports title. There are so many commands in the booklet, it takes up 2 pages!! In my opinion, some things are better off alone. The controls in Fifa 2005 were nearly perfect, with the addition of the trick stick, a la NBA live 2003. So why add new controls?

I agree that keeping things fresh is key, but what they could have done fresh with graphics and multiplayer (xbox live?) they did with new control options.

Overall, this is not one of the better soccer titles, and it shows as they are releasing another world cup game in the same year. I would say wait for that one.

By far the most beautiful soccer game ever !!!!

Plays beautifully and is quite a chellenge.

All the real players, anthems and crowds just adds to the great atmosphere.

I like the simple fact that this game has my nationality team, Guatemala, wich is something other soccer games never had. Thats the reason why i purchased this game. Fun game specialy when you get to pick your team.

This game is awesome. I personally didnt have much intrest at all in this game before I played the demo with a friend and now I'm hooked. It's a great game and I recommend it even to someone that isn't really into soccer.

I mainly play it against my roommate and online. I'm pretty addicted to it. I would have given it a 5 out of 5, but I can't figure out how to pass or shoot the ball from a direct kick position accurately. If I pass it from the spot it usually goes to the opposing team! On the older fifa's it made a whole lot more sense, but on this you can't beat the graphics!

The game is fun once yoju get the hang of it. It has a hard learning curve, and the instructions are very poor. There are no mini games, just straight up soccer games. The most dissapointing thing is once you win all your games and it tells you that you've qualified for the world cup... it all ends. Thats as far as the game goes. So it's title, "Road to the World Cup" is very accurate.

well i couldn t figure out what to say about this cause im not a soccer fan but i know a kid in my school that does so told him to play it and he said it was kinda cool but who cares about him i think people that dont like soccer may like this a little i know i did and the soccer fans should go crazy about this game i love the graphics also like on nba live 2006 u can practice while it is loading and that is a whole point rewarded just for that this game is fun and i know that u will probly like it so i will give this a 4 out of 5

I thought this game was ok. Though it was a huge disappointment also because you cant play as the club teams. Wait for Winning Eleven Online this game is just mediocore.

great game for the kids. no violence. tournaments keeps kids busy for hours. i played also and it is one of the better soccer games for the xbox 360

When it arrived in stores last month, the Xbox version of FIFA 06 was undoubtedly EA Sports' best soccer game to date. Now, less than two months later, FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup has been released for the Xbox 360, and the Xbox version of FIFA 06 is still EA Sports' best soccer game to date. How can that be the case? At the very least, FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup must be the same game that was released for the Xbox but with better graphics, right? Wrong. FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup is inferior to its Xbox counterpart in just about every way imaginable, and is undoubtedly one of the most disappointing games available for Microsoft's new console at launch. As its title suggests, FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup's main gameplay mode tasks you with leading an international soccer team through the qualification process to next year's World Cup competition in Germany. There are no club teams in FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup, so whereas the Xbox version of FIFA 06 boasts a rough total of 500 teams for you to play with, the Xbox 360 game features just 72, more than 50 of which are from Europe. No fewer than 132 of the international teams that participated in FIFA's preliminary qualification process for Germany 2006 are absent from FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup. The majority of you are unlikely to miss the likes of American Samoa, Chile, and Turkmenistan, of course, but the upshot of their omission from the game is that the European qualification groups are the only ones available in the Road to FIFA World Cup gameplay mode. If you want to qualify for the World Cup as a team from outside Europe you can create custom groups, but it's simply not possible to re-create the same qualification matches played by Brazil, Cameroon, or Japan in real life. Also, you can't ever actually play in the World Cup; only qualify for it. Assuming that you choose to play through the real-world qualifiers as a European team, you'll be placed in a group with five or six other teams and be required to play each of them twice. Artificially lengthening the Road to FIFA World Cup mode, though, are a number of mandatory friendly matches, as well as two fictional tournaments. The additional games might be a worthwhile feature of the qualification campaign if FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup boasted something resembling FIFA 06's team chemistry for you to consider, but it doesn't, so playing through them can feel like a bit of a chore. With that said, you might want to beat each of the fictional tournaments at least once if you end up in possession of a copy of FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup, simply because doing so is one of only a handful of unimaginative ways that you can earn gamerscore points for your Xbox 360 player profile in the game. You'll also earn "road points" for your achievements in FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup that, at least according to the instruction manual, can be used to unlock a classic FIFA team, along with extra uniforms and soccer balls. There's no fan shop for you to spend your points in like in FIFA 06, though, and unlocking the classic FIFA team, Adidas balls, and such really doesn't appear to involve points at all.

i got this game easy easy easy achevements easy easy easy achevements easy easy easy achevements easy easy easy achevements easy easy easy achevements

The gameplay is decent, graphics are not that good and the controls feel weird. If you want easy achievements i would recommend it.

I like this because its great and i love the way he communicated with us he is a well and honest person. That should get things going very good his transactions are excellent and should be applauded with his greatness

graphics are kind of sucky everything else is great, but i like it its okay, have a mention that its okay

My daugther, was looking for this game, so I decided to buy it for her thank you! It was in a very good shape and we got it fast.

this is a great game. my kids love playing it, and i found it at a reasonable price. i have no regrets!

I purchased this game in 2008 just for a cheap option to play a soccer game. The game play was great and I will more than get my money back in playback. I definitely recommend to anyone that doesn't follow a certain sport to drop back a year or 2 and save $30-50.

my son loves this game so i bought it, and i got a better deal on EBAY!!
SHIPPING was fast and promt.

This game is good and I am happy I bought it because i love soccer and its a soccer game. Although it is slower play then other games.