FIFA Soccer 08 (PlayStation3)

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This game is titled FIFA 08 in North America and Japan, and FIFA Soccer 08 in Europe and Australia.

Unlockables

Fifth difficulty level

Successfully complete all challenges listed in Challenge mode from any two zones.

Video

Strategy

Hints

Manager mode: Spending experience points

In Manager mode, access the experience points menu. Near the top of the screen is an option you can toggle if you wish to have the experience points spent automatically. Turn the autospend off. Save up until you have about 40,000 experience points, or roughly a third of a season. Then, go back into the menu where you spend your points. You can spend a lot more points in one go. This makes it easier to decide what aspects of a player to upgrade. When you have 40,000 experience points, turn on the auto spend. The CPU spends the points better if there are more to spend.

Manager mode: Keeping players longer

Before you start Manager mode with a team, edit the players ages so that they play longer for your team. For example, with Liverpool Steven Gerrard (age 28) might play for five years. However Steven Gerrard (age 14) will play for at least twenty more years.

More reasonable individual and team goals in "Be a Pro" season

Use the following trick if you find an objective that is difficult to reach. Before the upcoming match, save the game. When you see the tasks for the next match that you cannot pass, quit the mode, reload it, and the objectives will change to one you want. For example, if you are striker having trouble dealing with being in an offside position (and that is not even being called by the referee) less than eight times, just quit the mode and reload it again. Then, it may change to "Commit less than 4 fouls" or "Score at least one goal". However your team objectives such as "Concede less than 5 corners" or "Stay scoreless by the 80th minute" will also change.

Recommended formation

Go to "Create Formation" and select 4-3-3 as your base. Make the four defenders a wide diamond, with the sweeper at the bottom of the diamond in the middle of the 18 box, two defenders at the corners of the box, and the last defender just above the semi circle slightly. Note: The top defender should become a midfielder if you have him placed correctly. This formation works better than the 4-3-3 alone as well as any other formation.

Recommended players

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Ronahldino

Eto'o

Henry (Chelsea)

Rooney

Cech

Shevchenko

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The following is a great set of players to have on Manager mode. These players are quality buys if you can get them quite cheap and you are looking for players who develop into the 96+ category overall rating. To find the best players, do a search for all players aged between 16 to 19. You can find some 17 or 18 year olds with a rating of 90. These players only cost about $7 million because of their age, and you can make them worth about 40 in a season if the play well for you.

Goalkeeper: Bruno (Brazilian)

Defense: Micah Richards

Defense: Vincent Kompany

Defense: Sergio Ramos

Defense: Dani Alves

Defense: Gareth Bale

Defense: Raul Albiol

Midfield: S. Aleksander

Midfield: Fernando Gago

Midfield: Francesq Fabregas

Forward: Cristiano Ronaldo

Forward: Nani

Forward: Sergio Aguero

Forward: Created player (do not give him too many defense points as they do not really improve the overall rating for a striker)

Forward: Lionel Messi

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Use the following players in the future. (Screenshot)

Zubaer Alam (Galib)

Nani

L. Messi

Alexandre Pato (Inter)

Bojan

S. Brown

P. Mertesacker

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Use the following players.

Starters

GK: Petr Cech (Chelsea)

DF: Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United)

DF: William Gallas (Arsenal)

DF: Ashley Cole (Chelsea)

MF: Ronaldinho (Barcalona)

MF: Nani (Manchester United)

MF: Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)

MF: David Beckham (LA Galaxy)

ST: Obafemi Martins (Newcastle United)

ST: Tierry Henry (Barcalona)

ST: Carlos Tevez (Manchester United)

Substitutes

GK: Shay Given (Newcastle United)

DF: Gareth Bale (Tottenham Hotspurs)

MF: Damien Duff (Newcastle United)

MF: Owen Hargreaves (Manchester United

ST: Lionel Messi (Barcalona)

Reserves/Alternates

GK: Pepe Reina (Jose Reina) (Liverpool)

GK: Kasper Schmeichel (Manchester City)

DF: Gary Neville (Manchester United)

DF: John Terry (Chelsea)

MF: Frank Lampard (Chelsea)

MF: Nolberto Solano (West Ham United)

ST: Didier Drogba (Chelsea)

ST: Dimitar Berbatov (Tottenham Hotspurs)

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The following is an excellent team in Manager mode. These players are excellent right now and most of them will get even better.

Goalkeeper: Petr Cech

Defense: Phillip Lahm

Defense: Per Mertesacker

Defense: Jamie Carragher

Defense: Zanetti

Midfield: Bastian Schweinsteiger

Midfield: Francesq Fabregas

Midfield: Van der Vaart

Midfield: Kaka/Ronaldinho

Forward: Robinho

Forward: Lukas Podolski

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It is possible to play with the goalkeeper Igor Afinkeev (CSKA Moscow) in Career mode by using the following trick. Go to "Team Management", then go to "Club Transfers". Search for Afinkeev and put him on any desired team. Then, go to "International Transfers". Enter the Russia squad and put him in the team. By doing this you can play with a great youth keeper. He is 82 overall and is very young.

Overall 99 player

Use the following trick to get your player up to 99 a lot faster. Before you start, make sure that the player you want to upgrade is your arena player.

1. Save enough points to buy all the experience packs in the shop. This should not take too long.
2. Once you have enough, save it onto a second personal settings as well as your first.
3. Buy all the experience packs in the shop and save as normal. It should save to personal settings 2 and your squads.
4. Use all the experience points on your chosen player.
5. Save the game as normal.
6. Load personal settings 1.
7. Save it to personal settings 2 again.
8. The experience packs should now be available in the shop again, and you should have your points back.
9. Buy them again and save as normal. It should save to personal settings 2 and squads as before.
10. Use all the packs on your player again.
11. Save as normal.
12. Repeat steps 6 through 11 and you will see your players overall climb until it reaches 99.
13. Once your player has an 99 overall, save and load personal settings 1.
14. Save it to personal settings 2.
15. Load personal settings 1 again.

Your chosen player will have 99 overall, you will still have all the points you had before to spend on whatever desired and have personal settings 2 there in case you want to do this again.

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