Console Monsters writes: "2008. The year that no home-nations will get to play in the European Championship Finals in Austria and Switzerland. The long summer of watching the likes of Portugal, Germany and France compete to be the best in European football. Although England failed to qualify for the Finals, one good thing to come out of it was the FA's decision to terminate the contract of Steve McClaren. Now with this years Championships, just months away, EA have thrown another football game onto the market with UEFA Euro 2008 - and it's good.
UEFA Euro 2008 is practically FIFA with a few tweaks - extra modes and only European countries (obviously). Whilst the FIFA 08 game was catching up on the Pro Evolution Soccer series, UEFA Euro 2008 plays as enjoyable as FIFA 08 with a few tweaks to the passing and shooting system - the easy viewable strength meter above the players head for both the power when passing and shooting the ball. Whilst this is only a minor tweak to the game, it's very effective - especially when getting the perfect through-ball to your attacker. While everything's much the same, let's talk about some new features to be added to UEFA Euro 2008.
Firstly, Captain Your Country. It does exactly as the title says, but you have to start from the beginning - the B team..."
EA Sports UEFA Euro 2012 first trailer
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."
