Adam Gulliver writes:
''For football fans, this is going to be one depressing summer. Not a single home nation has qualified, and worst of all, Steve McClaren has earned himself a spot as a pundit during the tournament, despite knowing about as much about football as Gamestyle's cat. However, we can pretend this all never happened with Euro 2008, or 'Fifa 08 and a half', as it could be known.
These half-way iterations of EA's long-running football series always garner a massive groan from us because none of the ones we've played thus far have been much good. It was like EA shipped them off to be made by the EA Sports B team with the A team working hard on next year's edition. Things seem to be all changing at EA Sports studio at the moment, though. Firstly, we had the excellent Fifa 08, which finally dethroned PES, and now we have this Euro 2008 tie-in, which borrows many elements from Fifa 08 but actually adds a few nice improvements.''
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."
