This year’s version represents a renewed commitment to realism and offers plenty of innovation to the hit soccer series. Last year’s FIFA 2000 proved that even the finest PC sports game franchises are susceptible to some questionable design decisions. It emphasized fast action over simulation elements and also replaced the play-by-play commentary of the veteran British broadcasting team of John Motson and Mark Lawrenson with the unremarkable ESPN announcers Phil Schoen and Julie Foudy. Fortunately, this year’s version represents a renewed commitment to realism and offers plenty of innovation to the hit soccer series.
However, when you first fire up the program, FIFA 2001 seems anything but improved. The introductory sequence is simplistic, grainy, and uninspired, despite the generous audible assistance of Moby’s hypnotic Bodyrock. The menu interfaces are missing EA Sports’ standard high-tech gloss, so they’re uncharacteristically unsightly. Every menu selection is also accompanied by awful-sounding sound effects reminiscent of a loud coin-op arcade machine, but, fortunately, the game lets you turn these off.
However, when you first fire up the program, FIFA 2001 seems anything but improved. The introductory sequence is simplistic, grainy, and uninspired, despite the generous audible assistance of Moby’s hypnotic Bodyrock. The menu interfaces are missing EA Sports’ standard high-tech gloss, so they’re uncharacteristically unsightly. Every menu selection is also accompanied by awful-sounding sound effects reminiscent of a loud coin-op arcade machine, but, fortunately, the game lets you turn these off.
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