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<body><![CDATA[With the season well under way, it’s reassuring to see the latest in EA’s Fifa Football series warming up on the sidelines, itching to come on. And the great news is that 2005’s edition is a Wayne Rooney hat-trick of a game. The graphics are simply stunning, with players looking and moving like their real-life counterparts. The playability has greatly improved, thanks to a new First Touch system that enables budding Thierry Henrys to control the ball and use its momentum to their advantage. In practice this means it is no longer simply a matter of button bashing, and it is possible to play the ball along the touchline without it automatically leading to a throw-in. But if you see yourself as more José Mourinho than Frank Lampard, the career mode enables you carefully to build a Premiership side, having first paid your dues in the lower leagues. And if you don’t grind out the right results. . . well, you don’t need to ask Bobby Robson what’ll happen. Top right-hand corner stuff.Click <a href="asfunction:Tardis.webPageOpen,http://www.easports.co.uk/fifafootball"><b>here</b></a> to visit EA Sports' official Fifa Football website.]]></body>
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<body><![CDATA[With graphics like these itΓÇÖs just like being in the dugout]]></body>