Fifa 08

Fifa 08 is the latest installment of the Electronic Arts’ series of football video games and features the tag line “Can you Fifa 08?” Developed by EA Canada, it was released on all popular gaming formats in the year 2007. Fifa 08 includes 621 licensed teams, 30 leagues that include all 27 leagues from Fifa 07 and more than 15 000 players. Out of the 621 teams, 29 appear unlicensed and Netherlands apart from being unlicensed also has an entirely fictional roster. Although it is the only team in the entire Fifa 08 game that has this trait, the International Selection option included in the game allows for the player to replace these fictitious players with the real Dutch players. Leagues included in Fifa 08 include all the major European leagues such as the English Premier League and Football League, Spanish Liga, Italian Serie A, German Bundesliga as well as the US Major League Soccer, A-League, Brazilian Série A and Korean K-League.

Fifa 08 also features new leagues such as the FAI Premier Division, the Australian Hyundai A-League, the Czech Gambrinus Liga and a “rest of the world” category with clubs such as Orlando Pirates, Mamelodi Sundowns, AC Lugano, FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, AEK Athens FC, Arka Gdynia, Boca Juniors, FC Lausanne, Fortaleza and many more. The game additionally features an option to create your own club of two teams only, kits and crests as well as your own players for these teams. Some of the new features appearing in Fifa 08 that were not in Fifa 07 include Be A Pro mode where you can play as only one player, that can change, throughout the entire match. The Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Fifa 08 include features such as cooperative online play, a change of controls with a right stick to select which player should be on defense and improved game engine with superior graphics and different commentators. Fifa 08 utilizes an older game engine for all the other platforms which includes the PC. The Nintendo DS version features fewer teams, stadiums, game modes and kits due to the limitations of the machine’s storage medium.

ManagerLeague is a browser-based, multiplayer football-manager game developed by Fifth Season AS. At www.managerleague.com there is a range of services such as online football manager, online football manager game, soccer games, Fifa World Cup like Fifa 08 and fantasy football. Fifa 08 is a game for thousands of players from around the world. ManagerLeague.com allows you to take charge of your own team, buy and sell players, train your players to improve in the areas you wish to focus on, send them off on training camps so that you can focus on upgrading your own stadium. Fantasy football games like Fifa 08 allow you to manage football teams and play in league matches. There are also friendlies to play which help your team gain experience and you can challenge anyone at anytime. For access to games like ManagerLeague and Fifa 08 you can visit www.managerleague.com and find out more about the rules and regulations regarding each game.