Archive for June, 2006

I’ve had to stop playing because my PSP’s battery died. Bah.

There are several annoyances. There’s the weird behaviour of bad teams, who just run the ball off the field for no reason, or run back into their own half when they really shouldn’t, or kick the ball in weird directions. The game sometimes doesn’t check the strips of opposing teams properly and if I also forget I can find myself having to tell the teams apart by the colour of the shorts – which makes things difficult. The game shows facts on the loading screens… well, I assume there’s more than the one fact I’ve seen during the loading of every single game I’ve played so far.

So, annoyances. But none of them stop the game from being really good fun to play.

Yes, I’m really enjoying this.

I’m taking England through the qualifying matches. Two so far. Lost 1-0 to Poland and won 2-1 against Austria.

It’s not perfect – the main fault being that the AI sometimes just runs balls back down the field or off the sides of the pitch for no reason – but it’s been great fun.

I bought it from Game as I thought it might be rubbish, but I think I’m going to keep it.