Product Description

Hit the streets with some of the best Pro Players and experience all the style and attitude of street soccer. Decked out in authentic training kits and street wear, every player boasts their own, distinctive style of play with unique abilities to match. Whether you`re after brawn, brains, silky skills or crunching tackles, the perfect street team is out there.

Take instant control of your heroes with a new, responsive and intuitive control system. Use the simple button configuration and analogue stick to seamlessly combine moves providing you with hundreds of different ways to show off your street skills. Fill up your all-new Game Breaker to power your ultimate abilities and express yourself like never before.

Manoeuvre your heroes to leap past defenders, flip off walls, or perform gravity-defying one-timers to score spectacular goals. Set in exotic locales around the world with an eclectic selection of music seamlessly infused into the world around you, the game`s environments pulsate, and explode to life with every well-timed tackle, outrageous trick move or unstoppable shot on goal. Take your soccer heroes to the streets and experience the revolution in street soccer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2111 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2008-02-22
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Dimensions: .29 pounds

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FIFA Street 3 from EA SPORTS BIG brings to life football superstars from around the world as stylized action heroes in the ultimate arcade football experience for the PLAYSTATION3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system.

Hit the streets with some of the best Pro Players and experience all the style and attitude of street football. Decked out in authentic training kits and street wear, every player boasts their own, distinctive style of play with unique abilities to match. Whether you’re after brawn, brains, silky skills or crunching tackles, the perfect street team is out there.

Take instant control of your heroes with a new, responsive and intuitive control system. Use the simple button configuration and analog stick to seamlessly combine moves – providing you with hundreds of different ways to show off your street skills. Fill up your all-new Game Breaker to power your ultimate abilities and express yourself like never before. Maneuver your heroes to leap past defenders, flip off walls, or perform gravity-defying one-timers to score spectacular goals.

Set in exotic locales around the world with an eclectic selection of music seamlessly infused into the world around you, the game’s environments pulsate, and explode to life with every well-timed tackle, outrageous trick move or unstoppable shot on goal.

Take your football heroes to the streets and experience the revolution in street football.

Customer Reviews

Not actually that bad
I'm renting the game at the moment,so don't have the manual (which would obviously help). The game isn't that bad once you get into it. I don't see how anybody can review this without playing on it, but it is definitely worth renting. It is completely different to Fifa 08, but that is to be expected. To be fair I prefer the old Fifa streets, where the gamebreakers could be used more effectively to win games, i.e. beating players to score more goals. Here, you just choose when to use it but only really score 1 goal every time you get one. I also don't really lik the "slide" tackling. It is impossible to get the ball this way, and looks a bit silly, (the player just goes to ground and swings a leg around).

It's not really a game that you can play on for hours, but is quite fun just to play on every so often.

Fun and Frustrating
Yes, I know what you gamers are thinking; "What have EA done to the FIFA Street franchise? They look weird and cartoony!". That's what everybody else's reaction to the game was when they saw the trailer and (especially) when they played the demo.

But let me first to say, the graphics isn't the major concern, as I was disappointed with the graphics when I played the demo, but somehow, it got better (still cartoony) and it grows on ya. The reason that EA made this choice is with the increase of ridiculous football tricks, it actually would look weird seeing a life-like footballer performing impossible skills.

The cartoon graphics actually looks quite spectacular (especially on certain arenas, my personal favourite is the rooftop in Asia), plus each famous footballer has a unique look, which is quite appealing to any age group if you ask me.

Online play is made available for next gen consoles, where you can represent your country (literally) and the better you perform, the better the ranking for your nation. Basically, it's like the Olympics, if you do well, points are added to YOUR nation. However, when someone (who's representing the same nation as you) isn't doing well, points will be deducted for your nation.

Also, your mates can join you online (where you and your friend are at the same room) on unranked matches, so from occasions, your opponents might have more/less/equal amount of friends vs. your team. Like today, I have to vs. Norwegien gamers, 2 vs. 1.

Quite surprisingly, there are quite alot of teams, well, made up ones. Here are the national teams:

- Australia
- Brazil
- Cameroon
- Czech Republic
- England
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Italy
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- Portugal
- PR China
- Scotland
- Spain
- Sweden
- Turkey
- USA

As you may have noticed, where are Argentina, S. Korea and Rep. Ireland (as they were in FIFA Street 2)? Don't ask me, but I felt EA really screwed up on the national team selection. No offense to New Zealand but I couldn't even name one single New Zealand player, nevermind using the team. It's almost like adding Canada onto the list.

Another set of squads are street teams, basically a collection of players with certain attributes put together:

- Blasters
- Champions
- Classics
- Defenders
- Enforcers
- Euro Stars
- F50
- Finishers
- Free Football
- Pannas
- Playmakers
- Predator
- Small
- Speedsters
- Stocky
- Strikers
- Tall
- Team C
- Team R
- Top Drawer
- Tricksters
- World Stars
- Urchins
- Veterans
- Youth Stars

The reason for this many different types of street teams is a simple reason, you cannot create your personal team. Two reasons for this being; 1) there's no creation center (therefore no create your player either) and 2) there's also no Rule the Street mode

These street teams require unlocking, to do this, you got to play through and complete FIFA Street challenge, where you play these street teams and complete certain objectives on each level. There are 9 challenges overall, ranging from 3 1/2 stars to 5 stars difficulty.

Apart from unlocking additional street teams, there are basically nothing to unlock (i.e. kits, arenas, etc.) which is a major problem for the game, as it doesn't have replayability value, if you unlock all the teams and completed all 9 challenges (which isn't alot to do), all you can do then is either play online or set challenges for yourself.

What really put me off from playing the game is even though EA states they made the controls much more easier to navigate than FIFA Street 2, it's very hard to operate, especially tackling and most importantly, tricks. EA manage to nail the tricks down to 2 buttons; the triangle (juggling) and R3 (dribbling), it seems you have no collection of skills to execute and you're just repeating the same old dribble, juggle ball over opponents head. To make matter worst, the wall bounce is taken away, if you hit the ball too high, it's more likely go out of play. If you happen to hit a building/object nearby, it might bounce back into play (just picture you're playing footy in your back garden, trying not to hit the ball over the fence and into your neighbours yard).

Passing is also made harder, you have to be pinpoint perfect with your passes, otherwise, you're just playing the ball into an empty space. The gamebreaker is like the original version, no need to run back to the center of the arena to execute it, hit R1 and blast the ball into the net.

The sound, I felt it can be a hit for some people and a miss for others. Each time you score a goal, this bloke in a robotic voice says the name of the player who just scored. Some gamers may find this irritating (as demonstrated how many people complained when playing the demo). The music are quite catchy, in fact, when the ball is hit out of play, the music will be stopped (like a DJ stopping the disc from rotating).

So to sum it up:

GOOD - original gamebreaker, great graphics, music/sound
BAD - No creation center, no Rule the Street mode, too short (gameplay/replayability), lacking popular teams, repeatitive tricks, not enough unlockables

Dont review untill full version is released.
I dont see how you can review a game purely by playing the Demo.

THE key word here is "DEMO"

There may be certain features of the game that have not been fine tuned like the AI and certain graphical representations.

If when the game is officially released, it is as bad as the demo then I retract my statement but please can we stop reviewing games purely on demonstrations!!!!

I am sure EA would not release such an unpolished game.

I have given this game a star rating as it would not let me post without it.

Amazon... Can we take away the review facility on products untill they have been officially released?