Any of you going to spend money on the game just to have the world cup version? I am thinking of giving into EA's marketing ploy to give me something to do in the evenings for the next couple of weeks.

I have the 2002 World Cup game and I have to say I'd much rather have just a normal FIFA game where you can play as a club team.

On the bandwagon since birth. Raised in the bleachers of Kyle, Olsen, and G. Rollie White

I've been playing the 2006 WC version for a couple weeks. Its got way better gameplay than the other FIFA games but the last one of those I played was 2005.

Does get kinda boring since you can only play qualifying and WC.

Rosters aren't that updated, all players are in the pool so you can add them in the squad but not all the stats are updated. ie Gooch isn't in the US squad or on the bench, he's on the reserves.

Good game play and cool that they have qualifying and the WC. Other than that it gets old pretty fast due to no other options but gameplay.

Cool game, but I would rent it, not buy it. I bought it and now wish I had bought the regular FIFA game so I could play with the club teams.

agree with jabi

who is renting it? I can't find it at any of the blockbusters around me.

I played the 2002 version. It was OK but a little unrealistic. I remember playing France and watching as Barthez kicked a goal kick down the pitch towards Henry who took the ball on the volley with his back toward goal from 45 yards out (i.e. he executed a bicycle kick off a freaking goal kick) and scored.

I stopped playing after that.

Yeah Dre, its called a video game. I'm pretty sure that Reggie was never gonna rush for 2,000 and pass for 3,500 but that didn't stop me from doing it in NCAA

Yeah, but YOU did that in NCAA. The computer did that to ME...that's why I stopped playing because it was one of those games where if the computer decided you were going to lose, you lost because the computer pulled off BS like that all the time (although, that was the most egregious example that I remember).

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Barthez kicked a goal kick down the pitch towards Henry who took the ball on the volley with his back toward goal from 45 yards out (i.e. he executed a bicycle kick off a freaking goal kick) and scored.

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I'm not surprised. Henry could do that in his sleep.

I bought it, but I'm not a huge fan of club futbol, so that wasn't a big drawback for me.

Besides, I really only need something to hold me over until NCAA Football comes out in a month.

Kinda like when NCAA "decides" you're gonna lose and you fumble 3-5 times a game.