FIFA 2000: Major League Soccer
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The millennium installment of EAs popular soccer franchise brings a new match engine, over 450 club teams and 40 national from all over the world and also allowing to make dream matches between some of the Worlds' finest teams ever, such as Man. Utd. 1968 and early 90s AC Milan. A team and player editor allows complete edition of the teams. Game modes include Friendly, Cup, League (all customizable) and Season.
Gameplay is faster than it's predecessor, and also featuring a new shielding mode, to protect the ball when alone in front and set pieces from corners, which allow the player to kick the ball accurately to a player in the area.
Spellings
- FIFA2000å½é č¶³ēčē - Simplified Chinese spelling
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Credits (Windows version)
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| I.E. Music | |
| EMI |
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| "It's Only Us" |
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| "Stop the Rock" |
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| "Joy" |
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| [ full credits ] | |
Reviews
Critics
Average score: 88% (based on 38 ratings)
Players
Average score: 3.3 out of 5 (based on 35 ratings with 3 reviews)
The Good
The graphics were improved, but I couldn't see how this compared to FIFA 99 much less FIFA 98.
The Bad
Relegation seemed fake, announcers blew, songs blew, and the gameplay blew. Stadiums weren't even real, and American announcers announced English Premiership games.
The Bottom Line
A good game if you like American English football.
Windows · by Diamond Titan (66) · 2001
The finest football game on the PC returns for another go
The Good
The game was nicely presented and the graphics are the best seen in a football game todate. Comparing it with the Playstation shows how old the PS is now. The games are smooth and flow very well. The control system is easy to pick and takes very little time to master, and the three difficultly levels are miles appart, making an interesting learning curve.
The Bad
The presentation although is good. But sadly the overall play once mastered is very unrewarding, passes flow a little too easily and goal some very easily from free play. Free kicks are impossible to score and simply the game lacks any overall longevity.
The Bottom Line
A kick around in the park compared to a Premier league game
Windows · by Michael Joyeux (15) · 2000
The Good
EA has work Very hard On this game, the main feature of this game is its Graphics and The Gameplay, The Graphics have been changed and its not like the previous game of Fifa, The Crowd animation is really Superb!, The crowd now moves , waves, cheers, dances, shouts!. Thats Really cool.
Now u can hit the Bicycle Kick Very easily and it can be very effective too.
More cool Sequences and funny cheats.
One Of the cheats enable alien mode, In alien mode, aliens invade the football stadium and sieze The Players, its really funny when the players try to run.
Well...overall its a fantastic Football game, with 3D acceleration supported the graphics are more cool. If u r football fan , and love to play football games, u must buy FIFA 2000!.
The Bad
Nothin!
The Bottom Line
Its in The Game!!!- EA Sports
Windows · by Bilal Ibrar (53) · 2000
Trivia
Brazilian partnership
In Brazil, Electronic Arts made a partnership with a non-profit organization called "FundaĆ§Ć£o Gol de Letra", created by local soccer stars RaĆ and Leonardo, to revert part of the profit from the game's sales to that organization. As a result of the partnership, RaĆ was also featured on the local version of the cover.
The "FundaĆ§Ć£o Gol de Letra" organization help poor children to learn how to read and write.
Cover stars
Depending on the region, the cover star was:
- Belgium - PƤr Zetterberg
- Brazil - RaĆ Souza Vieira de Oliveira
- Croatia - Silvio MariÄ
- France - Emmanuel Petit
- Germany - Mehmet Scholl
- Greece - Vasilios Tsiartas
- Israel - Äovani Roso
- Italy - Vincenzo Montella
- The Netherlands, rest of the world - Jaap Stam
- Portugal - SimĆ£o Sabrosa
- Spain - Josep "Pep" Guardiola
- Switzerland - Ramon Vega
- United Kingdom, Nordic countries - Sol Campbell
- United States - Eddie Pope
Portuguese version
Following the potential lawsuit Electronic Arts faced because of the unauthorized usage of the Portuguese league in FIFA 99, FIFA 2000 lacks any reference to Portuguese teams - not even the national team. As the game still had a localized box (this time, featuring SimĆ£o Sabrosa of Barcelona) and fearing the removal of local teams would harm sales, the box has a caption going "learn inside how to build the Portuguese championship", which in turn aren't more than instructions to the in-game editor.
Robbie Williams
To close the licensing deal of the title track (It's Only Us), Robbie Williams allegedly demanded EA to include Port Vale in the game. Port Vale, then in Division Two (third tier of professional football in England) is Williams' (who is also known as a big fan of the sport) childhood team and investor since February 2006, was included in the "rest of the world" league.
Robbie Williams himself was included as a player in one of the secret teams, as well as being featured on the game introduction and back cover, and his previous albums (Life Thru A Lens and I've Been Expecting You) were advertised in the last page of the manual.
Awards
- PC Player (Germany)
- Issue 01/2000 - Best Sports Game in 1999
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Game added by Matthew Bailey.
PlayStation added by Grant McLellan.
Additional contributors: Andrew Hartnett, Unicorn Lynx, Corn Popper, //dbz:, tbuteler, Patrick Bregger, Plok.
Game added March 27, 2000. Last modified October 11, 2024.