Glad you mentioned Actua Soccer in there Tim... oh those were great days. The legendary PlayStation pie, my beautiful black "boots" and the wonders of the mighty Olympique Marseille.

Cripes! The PlayStation pie... I really must bake a new one... Marseille versus Kiev.... there was a game to behold.

Cheers

Tim

@Tim_Smith

Hello Dolly.

I'm not sure what kind of twisted sociopath could say PES was 'stodgy' next to FIFA.

I bought both. FIFA would be good if it didn't have the worst graphics of any game on the PS3, and if the ball physics were remotely accurate. If the 'Precision Shot' didn't make the opp keeper dive obligingly out of the way of a straight, gentle shot. If the lobs weren't quite so laughably fake. If the Mangement Mode didn't have dozens of major faults. If the player models didn't look like melting wax figurines. If the framerate didn't fall to a shocking judder in replays. If you could ever score a goal that you'd want to show your friends.

Need I go on? I've been playing footy video games since the late 1980s. FIFA was good until about 1999. Now it's as weak as all EA's other non-US team sports sims, including the risible 'FIFA Street'.