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On the plus side, this game has some fantastic stadium visuals - all of the Premiership grounds are represented in staggering detail. It's also great in the sound department as you can hear the fans singing recognisable songs and the enthusiastic Sky Sports commentary adds bucket-loads of atmosphere. On the minus side, the STARS system (players earn stars for their performance and you trade the stars for improved skills or new players), although innovative, becomes tedious to use after a shorter time than you'd imagine. The gameplay lacks the subtlety of the Actua range or the arcade immediacy of the FIFA range of footy games. It's not rubbish by a long shot, but it's not Premiership stuff either.
This game's developers, SSI, were famous for their RPGs a while back, but recently they've been trying their hand in real-time genres such as combat flight sims. This one looks the biz right enough, and sounds darned fine to boot, but, erm, for some reason someone forgot to have a look at the AI. All the planes regularly crash into other planes and the ground because they don't seem to have much collision detection coded into their routines. This, coupled with the game's desire to crash willy-nilly, leaves you with the distinct impression that maybe they rushed this one out. It's not half as good as Combat Flight Sim and should be avoided.
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