

The only other gameplay option on the main menu is juggling, which is a rhythm-action-style minigame that tasks you with keeping the ball in the air by hitting the D pad in the directions indicated by onscreen arrows. Your gameplay options, then, include play now, which lets you quickly jump into a match between your favorite team and a rival team challenges, which task you with completing a comeback or a rout based on a real-life match season, which lets you play through an entire season with your chosen team tournament, in which you can either compete in cup competitions from all over the world or create your own and multiplayer, which this year means ad hoc play for up to four players or infrastructure (online) support for head-to-head games. The most obvious difference between the PSP version and its console counterparts is that the handheld game doesn't include a career mode, which is unfortunate given that it was a strong feature of the console games this year.


The PSP version of FIFA 06 is, predictably, based on the recently released console games of the same name. Evidently, EA Sports has been hard at work these past six months, because FIFA 06 not only addresses the aforementioned problems, but also adds online play and an entertaining ball-juggling minigame to the mix.įIFA 06 boasts both ad hoc and infrastructure multiplayer support. Our only real criticisms of it at the time of its release were some occasional frame-rate issues and a somewhat tricky control scheme. Based on the FIFA Soccer 2005 console games, FIFA Soccer offered a surprisingly similar experience on Sony's then-new handheld.
