FIFA 09 - World Class Soccer
FIFA 09 - World Class Soccer is a PSP sports game released in 2008 developed by Electronic Arts. It centers on competitive sport controls, sport controls, and shifts between attack and defense, with controls and information arranged around the directional pad, single analog nub, shoulder and face buttons, with a camera or another accessory only where required.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.1 / 10
About this game
FIFA 09 - World Class Soccer is a PSP sports game centered on competitive sport controls, sport controls, and shifts between attack and defense. Matches, challenges, and tournament goals give sessions clear boundaries, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Players, venues, animation, and score feedback establish the match atmosphere, while the portable widescreen, UMD streaming, compressed audio, and handheld-scale interface need to preserve targets, text, and action readability. The genre-specific limitation is that opponent ai, control precision, multiplayer accessories, and period-specific rosters can affect consistency. Platform conditions also include single-nub camera control, UMD loading and noise, Memory Stick saves, battery life, regional language, ad hoc requirements, and retired online services affect present-day use. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
FIFA is EA SPORTS’ football series built around passing moves, defensive decisions and the excitement of scoring. Across its history, careers, Ultimate Team and women’s football broadened the experience beyond individual matches.
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A substantial portable football package with a new player-career angle, held back by familiar mechanics and PSP-specific interface trouble.
The PSP edition of FIFA 09 fits a broad licensed football package onto a handheld. Competitions, career play and challenges support long sessions, while Be A Pro adds a different perspective: control one footballer, complete position-specific tasks and grow across seasons. Contemporary PSP reviewers disagree about how much the match play improved. One reports better teammate AI and more reliable passes and crosses; another finds it largely inherited from FIFA 08 and still somewhat arcade-like. The safest judgment is a dependable football loop, not a complete mechanical overhaul. Simplified controls welcome newcomers, although advanced moves still require combinations on hardware without a second stick or extra shoulder buttons. Be A Pro objectives can repeat, and earlier portable minigames were cut. Commentary, music and licensed clubs create atmosphere, but graphics and menus look much like the previous edition, with weak close-up crowds and uneven player animation. Practical PSP issues matter more: reviewers report slow menus and a player-following camera that can stick at the wrong stadium angle after switching views. These are release-specific problems, not assumptions copied from home consoles. The rating chiefly assesses the offline match and career experience. Historical online modes existed, but their current service status has not been established.
Strengths
- Broad competition and career content
- Be A Pro adds a role-focused portable mode
- Licensed atmosphere, commentary and music
Weaknesses
- Incremental match-play changes
- Repeated role objectives and lost minigames
- Slow menus and an occasional camera fault
Who it is for: Football fans seeking a long-form licensed PSP season or a single-player role career.
Play notes: Original 2008 PSP edition only. Do not assume PS3/Xbox 360 features or current access to historical online modes.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Career, tournaments and role-specific Be A Pro give this portable edition breadth, although repeated objectives and removed minigames reduce freshness. | Reviewed | 7.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Accessible football and some reported passing and AI gains work well, but reviewers disagree on their scale and the handheld inputs remain constrained. | Reviewed | 7.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Commentary, songs and licensing create match atmosphere, while reused graphics, weak close-up crowds and jerky motion limit polish. | Reviewed | 6.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Simplified controls help, yet slow menus, a documented Be A Pro camera fault and rough animation create PSP-specific friction. | Reviewed | 6.1 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Electronic Arts
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Release date
- 2008
- Platforms
- PlayStation Portable
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Sports · Primary genre
- Tags
- 3D GraphicsLow Entry BarrierMain Story Under 10 HoursSports-based PlaySolo-friendlyFast-pacedReplayablePlayer versus PlayerShort SessionsPick-up and Play
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- PlayStation PortableWorldwide2008
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