12/5/2023 0 Comments Fifa street ps2 release![]() The DJ in question being Radio 1’s Zane Lowe, who may have promoted hip-hop sometimes but did so from the safe distance of being a white rock guy who once did Jay-Z’s bit for Snow Patrol’s cover of Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love”. The commentary and take on pirate radio are gone, replaced by music in a more traditional radio format where the DJ comments on the music and not the action. Trying to introduce more moves specific to individual players makes it feel (even) more of a brand extension and less like an impromptu game which happens to have some familiar faces. And yet, playing FIFA Street 2, I miss even that. It’s just the feeling that’s gone.įIFA Street was a very limited and corporate take on the culture of street football. Games are mostly played to the first team to score two goals and are generally shorter. The first game’s rather clever arrangement of each team in loosely uniform colours is replaced by everyone wearing whatever they want, which never stops rendering the first half of each match an exercise in trying to remember who you should be passing to. ![]() There is a new camera angle looking up the pitch lengthwise, which takes a bit of getting used to. ![]() The street football matches in it are broadly similar to FIFA Street, with small teams and a range of tricks to pull off alongside trying to stick the ball in the net. I can only conclude that EA must have listened to the Kristan Reeds out there, because I can’t see any other explanation for FIFA Street 2. The view of Kristan Reed of Eurogamer was that “the completely-off-his-head DJ-cum-commentator might drive the average sane person to resort to pouring absinthe on their cornflakes to block out his insane ramblings”, and yes, this was presented next to a cringeworthy treatise on just how street the writer wasn’t. Others at the time did not take the same view. In my post on FIFA Street, I talked about MC Harvey’s performance in the game, doing ”quadruple service as commentator, hypeman, provider of advice, and stand-in for the mates you’re messing around with”, and concluded that “his infectious enthusiasm is one of the game’s highlights”. FIFA Street 2 (EA Sports Big, PlayStation 2, 2006)
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