This Is Football 2005
released on Apr 22, 2005
Building upon the roots of the franchise, This Is Football 205 provides gamers with a familiar yet enhanced gameplay experience, complete with even more features, players, teams and stadiums. The game's global soccer experience is highlighted by more than 935 international and club teams from around the globe, along with 19,000 FIFPro licensed players from 32 different leagues, eight international tournaments and 28 unique stadiums. Utilizing the EyeToy USB camera, gamers can take snapshots of themselves and convert the high-resolution images of a gamer's head into a full 3D model so that they can personally battle against the world's best.
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Yep, this is definitely a football game.
Weird how my family had this game for so long, yet none of us owned a PS2.
Weird how my family had this game for so long, yet none of us owned a PS2.
fun gameplay with cool ideas,the dives and career mode
Again, the deliberate foul and deliberate dive mechanics are the only things keeping this game worth mentioning - and I suppose the career mode that saw you take a high school football team through two youth divisions and then (somehow) into the lowest professional league in the game. That was a neat idea.
I hope that time puts everything in its place and someday people realizes how good this game is. This game was pure arcade joy and introduced 3 types of tackle, being one of them the 2 legs tackle, that gave you a direct red card, and the fake dive. I have yet to see that feature in any PES/FIFA game. It really added deepness to the gameplay.
In addition to that, you could manipulate the rules at your will. Oh boy, how much I miss that feature. You could turn offsides off as well as the faults. I played with my friends at seeing who was the first to injure the rival team. It was so much fun because once you reached ¿4? ¿5? players injured, the game ended 3 - 0, winning the team who had most players on the pitch. Good ol' times, for sure.
The game still stands pretty well nowadays. Its arcade gameplay will never feel old and its simplicity made it feel technical because of the lack of assistance that the game offers. The soundtrack is killer too, I still listen to it even though it doesn't have that many songs.
P.S.: I must add that the Spanish commentary of this game was absolutely hilarious. Up to these days, my father still remembers some genius lines as "un fuerte pase corto lateral". Truly a classic.
In addition to that, you could manipulate the rules at your will. Oh boy, how much I miss that feature. You could turn offsides off as well as the faults. I played with my friends at seeing who was the first to injure the rival team. It was so much fun because once you reached ¿4? ¿5? players injured, the game ended 3 - 0, winning the team who had most players on the pitch. Good ol' times, for sure.
The game still stands pretty well nowadays. Its arcade gameplay will never feel old and its simplicity made it feel technical because of the lack of assistance that the game offers. The soundtrack is killer too, I still listen to it even though it doesn't have that many songs.
P.S.: I must add that the Spanish commentary of this game was absolutely hilarious. Up to these days, my father still remembers some genius lines as "un fuerte pase corto lateral". Truly a classic.