1UP writes: "In our previous write-up of UEFA Euro 2008, we excitedly spouted details about the game's Captain Your Country mode. After a dozen hours of hands-on time, we're even more excited. While the game features significant fixes out on the pitch, it's the complex, engaging Captain Your Country mode that'll get FIFA series aficionados reaching for their wallets when the game releases in late spring (and at $49.99, the $10 discount from the regular FIFA's nice).
Captain Your Country sees you create a player and pick a country, then use only that one player throughout the course of qualifying for the UEFA European Football Championship -- the quadrennial competition that pits Europe's top soccer nations against each other. During contests, you'll see a score on the screen for each of the four players participating -- and competing -- in the mode (these can be either human- or computer-controlled). As you complete passes, hammer shots on net, or successfully dribble past opponents, your score will rise (between 1.0 and 10) -- and vice versa: Make bad choices, like drawing a yellow card, and you'll watch your score drop. Arrows on the pitch help you stick to playing your position, which is made all the easier by the game eschewing the first-person viewpoint seen in FIFA 08's Be a Pro mode (though the first-person option is still available if you're playing single-player)."
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UEFA Euro 2008 does a great job of bringing together the technical preciseness and fun of a real soccer game like no soccer game before it. Being able to control almost all the action, and feeling like scoring a goal is a true accomplishment, comes across immediately. If you're a fan of the beautiful game, or even if you're not, you'll be in for real treat with this game.
Games Asylum writes: "The first thing to ask of any football game is: is it better than Pro Evolution Soccer? The answer in this case, is yes. Euro 2008 plays a slower, more realistic and more cultured version of the game. It relies far more on crossing, sensible defending and picking out the perfect pass, in contrast to Pro Evo's festival of dribbling.
It also plays a far better game online. I experienced hardly any lag, and when I did I found that the entire game slowed down to accommodate it. I never lost a goal or game due to lag, a huge difference to Pro Evo's nasty habit of making the ball disappear and then reappear in your own goal. There's also a wealth of online modes, including playing a Euro 2008 tournament online, playing in a league or just picking a single game. There's also an interesting feature called 'Play for your Country' where you choose your country and your scores both offline and online go into a ranking table to find out which country has the most obsessive citizens."
