IGN writes: "The UEFA Euro Championships only come around every four years. They're sort of like the Olympics of European football in that way. While UEFA 2008 on consoles packed solid gameplay revisions and a new helping of features, the PSP doesn't change enough in its formula to turn the heads of those who have seen FIFA on a handheld before.
For those who don't know what the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2008 for short) is, here's a brief introduction. There are 16 international football teams meeting in Austria and Switzerland from June 7 to June 29 to take part in the final stage of a tournament process that began back in August 2006 with the qualifying round. They begin by being split into four groups, two teams emerge from each group and are fed into the quarterfinals, at which point it's a standard single-elimination tournament until a champion is crowned. Now, back to videogames."
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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."
