UEFA EURO 2008 features stunning visual representations of the world's best players, playing in a more accessible, faster-paced and responsive version of the market-leading EA SPORTS football engine, and all of the teams and official stadiums that will be part of UEFA EURO 2008. Take on the challenge of leading one of over 50 European national teams to glory as UEFA EURO 2008 recreates all of the drama and excitement of the official tournament in Austria and Switzerland. Play as your favorite country from qualification right through to a virtual reproduction of the championship tournament.

A new game mode called Captain Your Country enables gamers to customize them on the pitch and wear the shirt of their national team. Work through eight status levels to earn the captaincy of your team and then lead your country into battle for championship glory against your rivals. Go online in Battle of the Nations to earn status points for yourself and your country in a competition for global supremacy. Go for the biggest upsets to earn the most points and then watch you and your country move up the leader boards. Face the challenge and pressure of competing in the championship rounds in the EURO Online Knockout Draw to test your skills against the world's best.

UEFA EURO 2008 captures the look and feel of the journey from qualification to the finals with rain and mud dynamics that impact playing conditions, real-time player ratings that change based on player performance, and a penalty kick mode that re-creates the elation and agony of a penalty shoot-out as if you were on the pitch. Experience the thrill of scoring the goal that sends your country through to the next round and then choose how to celebrate it with all-new interactive user-controlled celebrations. Captain your country, play alongside your heroes, and inspire them to championship glory in the official videogame of UEFA EURO 2008.

Customer Rating:
Summary: The footballing game we've all been waiting for?
Comment: 1st off, the one and only negative:- its euro 2008 rather than next seasons fifa 2009. if this is what fifa will be like, then bring it on. Ive waited years to be able to create yourself AND play as yourself in a football game, and it was good to see that euro 2008 expanded on fifa 2008's 'be a pro' by creating 'captain your country'. have only had the game a couple of days, but im hooked already, not only can you personally score the winner in the euro 2008 final, but when you do so, why not celebrate using the new interactive celebrations? do a peter crouch 'robot dance', a jurgen klinsmann dive, thank God by pointing to him, or why not just do the old fashioned alan shearer one hand in the air? missing england in euro 2008? then play this and you'll forget about ginger idiots with umbrellas!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: great game-but where r the Netherlands?
Comment: This game is great fun with great graphics 4 ps3.
However, i want to know why holland, like in fifa 08, are a bunch of people that are made up.
As one of the main football forces in Europe, surely they should have real life players representing them in the game. It can get quite annoying when you want to play with them. They had real players in the world cup 06 game, so why not in euro 08. its madness.
Apart from this, the game has great gameplay and great graphics. I would recommend this to any football lover who isn't overly bothered about Holland or the few other teams that r like this (e.g. Wales and Macedonia) :)

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Sketchy - at best
Comment: Quite disapointed with this product.
Firstly il state that it is alot of fun with mates and it is a good laugh. And the intentions of this game is great with the online competitions and what have you..But there are some major flaws


1. I was playing as england and a player on the opposite side got substituted. He was replaced by no-one except for an invisible player - I didnt realise until the ball was moving and rebounding against nothing and i was losing the ball for no reason!

2. Captain your country - Im england, playing as rooney. You get points for your match rating. A 9.8 = 980 points.
I scored 4 goals in a game where we won 4-1. You think i would get the highest match rating and man of the match? Oh no. Gerrard does. even thouh he completed only 2 dribbles, no goals or asissts, and lost the ball five times and won it back 9 times. Those were his stats, it makes it impossible for me to be captain!

3. COuntless times ive been on a one and one situation and fgone to shoot, and he doesnt. The keeper rushes out and gets the ball. Its stupid to think when to shoot when it takes about 4 to five touches for him to actually shoot.The keeper will probably sAVE it anyway. Also ive been in a easy situation to head the ball in, press the head shoot button and NOTHING happens, just rebounds of the player and goalie picks it up.

This game is VERY frustrating, especially when trying to play by yourself. But with a friend or a group of mates its quality.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Skeleton for FIFA 09? or skin deep?
Comment: Right well I've tried reviewing Wii games and got chased out with white politically correct pitchforks and Crazy, Mafioso, unshaven Italians, so back to home turf and giving my stupid opinion on games that'll be coming out on PS3.

Now for this review I'm going out on a limb and say that it's a review of a demo, but a demo is still an important part of a game cause it's one of the biggest ways to advertise your product today without pulling the strategy known as: "The GTA strategy" (you make the most controversial game ever and get it printed in the Daily Mail as A THREAT TO YOUR CHILDREN'S SAFETY).

Right, to the game and I'll start with the real introduction. UEFA 2008 is supposed (and said by my brother) to be FIFA 08.5 with better passing, shooting and teamwork, something EA decided to throw into a cauldron of acid and waited to examine the dregs and make a game out of them when in the process of making FIFA.
UEFA is the official game for the EURO 2008 tournament with every nation in Europe fighting to get their hands on the £22,000 piece of silver and along the way making the Italian supporters cry as much as possible or making the England team cry like babies because THEY DIDN'T QUALIFY!!!
Bugger! i'm really sorry, I really needed to get that of my chest. I swear i'll review the thing and not criticize the team, ok?

Right, moving nervously to presentation.
There's not really much to say apart from it uses the same menu as FIFA only in a different font, instead of a city in the background you've got the Alps, on the pitch the players names and power meters are shown and the game seems to have a very clean mountain air feel. No idea where they got those ideas from! (irony)
Presentation on the pitch has been improved quite a bit ex: You can see the managers of the national teams, the player animations are more fluent than previously but the referee only seems to appear when there's a yellow or red card given, and it's little things like these that make the game believable. Same goes for linesmen.

Ok now the most important: GAMEPLAY.
In FIFA the gameplay was a train wreck, the players were slow, the controls were unresponsive, a through ball was basically serving the opposing defenders with the ball but your players were very accurate with shooting the ball as they always hit the post or the keeper plus you found your finger glued to the R2 trigger cause you wanted him to go faster (warning: double-entendres ahead) So basically a game with these kinds of problems isn't fun.
Well..... I guess in the demo there about 75 percent there. The players are more responsive and the passes are more accurate sure the high through ball isn't the renovation you'd wish it was but it's easier to use in more tricky situations now.
Another new thing that sounds good is interactive celebrations. When you score a goal you mash the buttons to see what the player does and these range from interesting to down right embarrassing but I'll score as many goals as possible so that the guy can do a backflip, land on one foot, do a machine gun gesture and wait for the boos and yellow cards.

Finally the Graphics:
Now before I would have dismissed this but this is next gen and you want your team to look as real as possible for when you lift that cup high in the sky to roars of the crowd while millions of tiny confetti thingys fall from the sky and fireworks go off around the stadium all to the music of "Don't stop me now" by Queen.

(Please note that the chances of this happening are 1 in a million if playing with the England team. NO!,.NO!
BAD JAMEZ!)

For the demo we only see one stadium called Wankdorf (I told you so) but it does look and feel very alive.
The players could do with abit of work, especially Gregory Coupet's ears in which he looks like an elf, but it's only a demo so it's no biggie.

All in all the game gives out the same "money+sales" feeling when it tells you that Rooney is the best player in Europe and other new comers like Lucas Podolski and Karim Benzema who are less well known and so are inherently rubbish.

All in All UEFA 2008 looks and feels like a winner but the main reason that I think EA made this is to tell people this is what FIFA 09 is gonna be like and you can't shake the feeling that it'll be completely redundant in a few months. It's a brilliant feeling to think that you can now really control your favorite club properly and that this is the FIFA 09 skeleton but in hindsight the demo of a game that advertises the game that advertises another game that'll come out next year(ish) doesn't really go down well in my books.

So like the title says it is the skeleton but the selling is skin deep.


Written by Jamez
Purged with fire and salt (edited) by Edderz

(Additional help: The Gimp, he can make real good coffee!)

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Euro 2008
Comment: I had mixed expectations about this game. Coming from the makers of FIFA, I was expecting good gameplay, good graphics and real kits and player names. However, given that EA didn't take too much care with Euro 2004 or World Cup 2006, I thought this may be the same.
Well, the gameplay is good, but more like Pro Evo than FIFA. But this isn't a bad thing, FIFA fans. You cannot score from 40 yards as easily as on FIFA, but you're encouraged to pass the ball and try to score. Long balls are more accurate, as are through balls. The gameplay takes a bit of getting used to, however.
As for the graphics, they are a little better than even FIFA 08. The players' faces are very lifelike, and the manager shots are interesting, yet could be better.
One downside is that some kits and player names are fake. For instance, Macedonia and Wales' kits are unreal, and Andorra have a player named 'Andorra'.
Again, it seems as if EA are more concerned about the FIFA series than this, but, all in all, it's a lot better than expected. A pleasant surprise.

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