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FIFA Football 2002

FIFA Football 2002
Fifa 2002 soccer.jpg
Developer(s) EA Canada
Publisher(s) Electronic Arts
Series FIFA
Platform(s) Windows
PlayStation
PlayStation 2
GameCube
Release Windows
  • NA: October 29, 2001
  • EU: November 2, 2001
PlayStation
  • NA: November 1, 2001
  • EU: November 2, 2001
PlayStation 2
  • NA: November 1, 2001
  • EU: November 2, 2001
  • JP: November 29, 2001
GameCube
  • JP: November 15, 2001
  • NA: November 21, 2001
Genre(s) Sports game
Mode(s) Single-player, Multiplayer, Online multiplayer
Review scores
Publication Score
GC PC PS PS2
AllGame 4/5 stars N/A N/A N/A
EGM 7/10 N/A N/A N/A
Famitsu 34/40 N/A N/A 32/40
Game Informer 8/10 N/A N/A 8/10
GamePro 3.5/5 stars N/A N/A 4.5/5 stars
GameSpot 8.9/10 9.3/10 8.7/10 8.7/10
GameSpy 82% N/A N/A N/A
GameZone N/A 8.8/10 9/10 8.6/10
IGN 8.6/10 6.3/10 N/A 8.5/10
Nintendo Power 4.3/5 N/A N/A N/A
OPM (US) N/A N/A N/A 4.5/5 stars
PC Gamer (US) N/A 89% N/A N/A
BBC Sport N/A N/A N/A 88%
Aggregate scores
GameRankings 80.61% 82.15% 79.33% 79.25%
Metacritic 81/100 77/100 81/100 82/100

FIFA Football 2002 (known as FIFA Soccer 2002: Major League Soccer in North America, and FIFA 2002: Road to FIFA World Cup in Japan), commonly known as FIFA 2002, is a football video game released in 2001, produced by Electronic Arts and released by EA Sports. FIFA 2002 is the ninth game in the FIFA series.

Power bars for passes were introduced, and dribbling reduced in order to attain a higher challenge level. The power bar can also be customised to suit the gamer's preference. The game also includes club emblems for many more European clubs as well as for major Dutch clubs such as PSV, AFC Ajax and Feyenoord, although there was no Dutch league of any kind (they were under the "Rest of World" header). This game also features, for the first time, the Swiss Super League, at the cost of excluding the Greek League. A card reward system licensed from Panini was also introduced where, after winning a particular competition, a star player card is unlocked. There is also a bonus game with the nations that had automatically qualified for the 2002 World Cup (France, Japan and South Korea), in which the player tries to improve the FIFA ranking of their chosen team by participating in international friendlies.

Many of the international teams in the game are not licensed (some of them down to the players' names like the Netherlands), as well as smaller countries such as Barbados, who were only given numbers as player names. Also, to date, this was the last FIFA edition (not counting the World Cup versions) to feature the Japanese national team, since Japan Football Association would go on to concede exclusive rights to Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer series.


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