AbstractIf you're looking for a video game that uses the official insignia, mascots, and stadiums of the 2002 World Cup soccer event, this is the only place you'll find what you want. With action taking place in the 20 real stadiums of the 2002 tournament in Korea and Japan, the game also has all of the teams complete with actual strategies. Featuring a score by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, FIFA WORLD CUP 2002 is presented in a television-style manner, complete with awesome camera angles and replays.
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Full descriptionEA SPORTS' best-selling soccer series continues with 2002 FIFA World Cup, featuring all 20 official stadiums in Japan and Korea complete with team mascots. Animation has been improved in the area of ball jostling between players, "Moment Zooms" intensify the action by providing athlete close-ups, and "World Cup Moments" offer multiple angles of key plays during the match set to music by the Vancouver Symphony.
Tournament mode offers a seven-game series punctuated by a storyline, while a new feature entitled "Air Play" is designed to simplify more complicated maneuvers such as headers, scissor kicks, and so forth by binding them to a single button. The atmosphere surrounding the sport has been enhanced as well, with home crowds showing team colors, waving flags, throwing confetti, and cheering for their country.
The FIFA World Cup is the world?s largest, most-watched sports event. The passion, drama, and character of the tournament, coupled with the exclusive 2002 Fifa World Cup license, are the basis of this unique collector?s product. EA Sports 2002 FIFA World Cup captures every moment of glory, every emotion, every sound, and every aspect of a truly global event. An all-new ?airplay? model delivers intuitive, one-button headers, volleys, scissor kicks, juggling, and more. Gamers will find a whole new world of showboating and high-tempo, high-impact action, obvious from the first touch of the ball.
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AmazonFeaturing 16 of the best leagues and more than 75 national teams,
2002 FIFA World Cup brings the game of the world to your fingertips. You will execute curling corner kicks, awesome slide tackles, shots from the top of the box, crunching challenges, and palm-wringing penalty kicks.
Among the major enhancements to this version is the passing system--the core of any real soccer (football) game. It now emulates the same decisions made in a real match. Gamers can place the ball anywhere on the field of play, resulting in an immensely increased repertoire of developing plays. Teammates now make long up-field runs, diagonal runs through the midfield, and streaks across the back of an opponent's defense. They'll call for the ball as they break, letting you know to pass to the space ahead of them.
EA Sports also totally rewrote the AI. The AI now searches for space and key weaknesses in your team's positioning, and will make off-the-ball runs or build up intelligent passing plays before striking a precise through ball behind your last line. Depending on the difficulty level, the AI will create a much more interesting and challenging opponent than in previous versions.
Features four levels of difficulty including a "Beginners" mode
Includes officially licensed uniforms, teams, players, and commentators
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