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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 0014633155358
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Label: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Model: 014633155358
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Sales Rank: 449
Studio: Electronic Arts

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Product Description:
Play professional soccer your way in EA SPORTS FIFA Soccer 09. Play one of two ways?a Wii-specific take on the classic ?11 vs. 11' simulation or over-the-top arcade action with Wii versions of your favorite football superstars. Choose to play the style that best suits your skills from advanced controls for experienced players to new EA SPORTS All-Play that lets new players focus on fun using simplified controls with AI assistance. Experienced players can access in-depth controls, with refined gestures and a precision passing system and point-and-play control. You can even use a Classic controller or Nintendo GameCube controller.

Advanced Controls ? a precision passing system with point-and-play control for more experienced gamers. You can even use a Classic controller or Nintendo GameCube controller Online Play?Pick your favorite team and go online to challenge a rival squad one-on-one EA SPORTS Interactive Leagues - Represent your club online against your rivals throughout the season Manager Mode - Club finances and sponsors, visual sims and dynamic board expectations that change depending on your successes ? or failures Over 500 licensed teams all accurately represented with correct kits and crests

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Lace up your cleats, strap on your shin guards and step onto the pitch for a unique soccer experience exclusively for the Wii in FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play. Perfectly balanced for gamers at all levels to enjoy professional soccer action on their own terms, FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play features two ways to play, a Wii-specific take on the classic '11 vs. 11' simulation, or over-the-top arcade action with Wii versions of your favorite international soccer superstars.

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Soccer superstars Wayne Rooney and Ronaldinho in Mii form in 'FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play'
Superstars Rooney & Ronaldinho.
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Squad customization in 'FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play'
Customize your clubs.
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Ronaldinho in Mii form in front of goalkeeper in 'FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play'
Play in Mii form.
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Classic play mode option in 'FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play'
Or in classic play mode.
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Classic Play: Choose Your Own Level
EA Sports' All-Play line of games specializes in making it easier and less intimidating for new players to play at their own level of ability by allowing them to choose the style that best suits their skills. Novice players, more focused on a casual, quick fun, and better suited to a less intense learning curve can choose to use a All-Play's basic control scheme. Here one gesture and a single button press performs all the actions and increases your success rate on shots, free kicks and rebounds. Trouble deciding who to pass the ball to? Let the CPU point you in the right direction with on-screen pass indicators and one-button actions. Panic over picking the corner? Don't worry, just blast away to find the back of the net with instant shots on goal. It's that easy! Plus, the game provides feedback and stats to track your progress.

Experienced players on the other hand, familiar with advanced controls can still access all the in-depth controls they know and love, now with refined gestures and a precision passing system with point-and-play control. Plus, players can even use a Classic controller or Nintendo GameCube controller for a more traditional FIFA game experience. In addition, all players will have access to over 500 teams, all accurately represented with correct kits and crests. Plus Manager Mode debuts with a Wii specific interface, club finances and sponsors, visual sims and dynamic board expectations that change depending on your successes … or failures.

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Arcade Play: Wii-Flavored Action
For players looking for familiar Wii style gameplay with a World Cup flavor, FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play has what you crave as well. Play with your Mii alongside international soccer superstars like Ronaldinho, Wayne Rooney and other created as customized characters in an arcade version of the beautiful game. Play 8 vs 8 Footii Match mode against a friend for addictive pick-up-and-play arcade action suitable for all levels of ability. Steal the ball and make outrageous shots by simply waving your Wii Remote. You've never played soccer like this before. Plus, Footii Party Games called Table Football and Boot It have been overhauled for more great fun with family and friends. Anyway you choose to play FIFA Soccer 09 All-Play for Nintendo Wii is pro soccer your way.





Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great game for soccer fans!
Brought for a 16 year old boy and he loves it! We had the 2006 version and this one took a little time relearning the precision passing level, but with better control after the learning process. Also has a beginner level of play. Had a few extras like a Fooze Ball Table, and that was a nice surprise. This game will grow with your child.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Great Soccer Game Overall
The FIFA 09 for Wii is almost two games in one. One part of it is the usual FIFA soccer with all the teams and options FIFA franchise has developed over the years. The other part is the special Footii Party designed to be played with personalized Miis created by you. Footii Party is fun to a degree. It all depends on how many people there are to have the party with. If you are all by yourself, you may quckly get bored with it. But don't forget that the other part of the game with all the great teams still exists and you can go back to play that. Plus there is the online game play which adds extra competition (Footii Party is not an online option, too bad).

The Bad.

I think that every review needs some straight talk. I hate my online experience so far because I have not been able to complete 60% of the games I've played. I keep getting the connection error in the middle of the game. Maybe it's my WiFi connection that does this, but all my computers (3 of them) hardly ever have problems connecting to my wireless network. So maybe it's my Wii Console.

The other thing is that I am have been struggling with the Wii remote control in this game. They give you two options: Advanced Play and All-Play. In All-Play, the CPU decides the moves for you and all you have to do is dribble, pass, shoot, run (the player with the ball only), defend. In Advanced Play, you decide how the whole thing goes. Due to my inexperience with the Wii remote, I find both options particularly difficult to master. I therefore decided to buy the classic controller simply because I have played FIFA on Xbox before without problems. The classical controller works great but it only works in the Advanced Mode.

Note that if you play online with the classic controler, all your games will be in Advanced Mode. Many people online use the Wii remote so they play in ALL-Play mode. My guess is that the two modes are not compatible which is why I keep losing connection with my opponents (although I tried to play with my Wii remote and I also lost connection several times).


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Fifa's grand oversight: forgetting to make a long-ball/short-ball distinction
Fifa almost got everything right, but the one mistake that they made (not differentiating between short and long passes) is enough to take this game from nearly perfect to merely mediocre.

Besides the addition of the comprehensive and stellar manager mode, the primary difference between this game and the former version on the Wii console is the introduction of point and play controls. Such controls revolutionize video-game football. For example, no longer must you be frustrated by continually selecting the wrong (computer assigned) man on defense; merely point to any defender on the screen, and you become that person. No longer must you become irate that your pass went inexplicably to wrong place; point to a place on the screen, and you pass to that point, whipping in the perfect cross. (Crossing the ball into the box is much more realistic and user-friendly compared to the soft, floating, pointless crosses of the 08 version.) With this point and play control, Fifa 09 for the Wii takes advantage of the Wii's possibilities in all new ways.

However, it's unfathomable that Fifa didn't test the game on any potential consumers. My little nephew would immediately realize that there's no way to differentiate a ground pass from an air pass. There's only one button with which to pass the ball, the A button, and that button is the same for every kind of pass. Want to knock it over the forward's head for him to run onto the ball? Too bad, you'll pass it on the ground. Want to slot an incisive through ball between two defenders to your midfielder? Too bad, you'll pop it up in the air. Thank you Fifa: thanks to your myopia, I've had to revert to using the Gamecube controller (Use the Gamecube controller, and the controls are perfect.), stripping the Wii of all its Wii-ness.

To think, had Fifa just had my toddler nephew test the game, the company could have assigned A button as ground pass and B button as air pass; the result would have been one of the best football games ever. A shame indeed.


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - the most horrid FIFA soccer game I ever played - EVER!
I have been playing FIFA games for many years dating back to '98 on a variety of consoles. I can say that without a doubt this is the most horrible expereince I've ever had by far. The team at EA Sports should be ashamed at presenting this as a legit Wii game. Where to begin...
GLITCHES! In the game and the commentary! I have had free kicks from the center circle go in, and sometimes my screen will phase out to black all of a sudden and it will be a goal kick for no apparent reason. And now the most annoying thing ever - after a long shot, many times the announcer will say that the player has injured himself and should come off! What!?!? Come on EA, how much did you play test this game, huh? A half hour at midnight after a drink or two? Or did you have 5 yr. olds play test it?
The controls are designed to give the user two options - all-play or advanced play. Advanced play is the most annoying feature as you literally have to point and click, point and click, point and click to where you want the ball to go. Granted this does offer a bit more control, it feels nothing like a flowing soccer match at all. All-play seems a bit easier and is designed for more "rookie" type of players. However, the computer plays as if it has additional moves and can make incredible curling shots and precise runs that you cannot.

Speaking of which, the difficulty settings are a joke - WAY too hard! Let me give you an example - I played a match set on "semi-pro" which is about a "medium" setting after I had patiently played for hours on the lower settings to get the hang of things. I played as Liverpool (one of the top dominant English teams) vs Cobh Ramblers (a crappy team from the Irish league). I used typical tactics and tried my hardest to score goals while also playing a all-around solid game including sound defense. I was defeated 4-2 with all 4 goals for the Ramblers being sensational, unrealistic long-distance strikes that obviously are impossible or curling twisting masterpieces that even the best real life players only rarely score, nevermind some no-name players for a poor one star team. This result is like your little brother's little league team beating the Yankees - it would just never happen - even in a video game.

The worst aspect of the all-play style is when you are defending. You can make a challenge for the ball which usually will not result in a foul but may leave the ball wide open for another opposing player to simply walk up to, take control, and move past your player - or you can slide tackle and be assured of a yellow or red - and still have the same result. This defending problem is shameful and simply highlights another fault in the playtesting area. Many times I have stopped an oncoming attacker only to have one of his teammates simply walk up to the ball and score.

Set pieces are very difficult as are crosses and corners. The instruction manual gives you minimal information in these areas. Your only choice is to play through a "soccer academy" option which did nothing to help me. Very frustrating.

Stay away from this one, I wish I can get my money back but I've lost the receipt. Not fun and full of poor game play and design. It doesn't even feel like soccer when you are playing. Buy something else. I cannot believe I wasted fifty bucks on this piece of junk....



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