The past iterations had their own identity within this series, with the first perhaps being a real cult classic. Yet you can’t help but feel there is a good deal of symbiosis to the original here. Just the players grunting as they smash a ball into the little goals.
You still have the gritty European street environments that showcase the different footballing cultures and there still isn’t any commentary or chanting of a crowd. However, in this one, there is a sense that the developers wanted to make it feel like the original FIFAs, only condensed to a smaller field with a more arcade-themed control scheme. Unless it smacked off the keeper’s head, of course. Which for those unaware, was essentially the football equivalent of a Dragonball-Z style power blast that rocketed into the net almost everytime. Then there was the contrasting cartoonish side of the games where you would be able to build up enough points to perform a gamebreaker. In past Fifa Street games there was a really gritty feel to the game where you could play like Roy Keane chopping down the more skillful players and that was enough to get by.
