This is enjoyable for a time, but lacks real challenge since many of the clubs are simply not in the same class as traditional heavyweights like Spain, Germany, England, and Italy.
After picking a nation to represent, you accept or randomize the groupings and then warp back to 1996 and begin qualifying matches for Euro 2000. While you can play friendlies, Golden Goal matches, mount challenge tournies with four or eight teams, and take part in some nifty forms of training where your practice squad mimics the tactics of an upcoming opponent, the meat of Euro 2000 is in the tournament mode. Unlike Road to World Cup 98, which somehow transcended its limitations, this game is exactly what it seems to be on paper: a stripped-down version of the latest FIFA title.
The lack of options and limited gameplay that I quickly forgot about in the summer of 1998 are big issues here. Unfortunately, Euro 2000 (the game, not the tournament) doesn't recapture the magic that made its predecessor so compelling. The untold thousands of players that comprised last winter's FIFA 2000 have been compressed to the 49 national teams that began qualifying rounds for Euro 2000 (the tournament, not the game) way back in 1996. Euro 2000 follows in the footsteps of Road to World Cup 98 in depicting a single event. Now, as we're quickly approaching another big tournament in June's Euro 2000, the marketing wizards at Electronic Arts have decided to mark the occasion with another one-off. I spent much of that summer trying to take one club after another to the final and hardly even noticed the absence of local clubs and leagues that make every FIFA game a smorgasbord of soccery goodness. Guiding your favorite national team to the big show was thrilling in a way that even a non-soccer fan like myself could appreciate. Featuring all of the tourney's qualifying teams and a number of the also-rans, the game was a winning depiction of soccer's biggest event. Longtime followers of EA Sports' heralded FIFA soccer titles remember Road to World Cup 98 as one of the best games released during the series' six-year (and counting) run.
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