"The premier soccer title kicks off on the Gizmondo! Take control of your favourite player and compete against any team of your choice in the largest football franchise to date. Designed especially for the Gizmondo, players can compete against the computer thanks to sophisticated artificial intelligence, or challenge a friend via Bluetooth networking."

Features include:

In game presentation as with all EA games is very good, with clean clear menu screens to all the league and cup results, tables etc all being very well laid out.

Sadly the in-game graphics don't live up to the rest of the game, the game itself has been ported over the N-Gage version that was released 9 months prior to this release, the Goforce4500 GPU of the Gizmondo hasn't been used whatsoever unlike the SSX3 conversion, not sure what the reason why this was but for the amount Gizmondo paid for the two games you would have at least expected enhanced versions for the money! Returning to the graphics though, as previously mentioned this is an N-Gage port and that means the game runs on CPU power alone along with blocky graphics, the players are sprites and look pretty bad when close up, advertising boards really stand out as having textures stretched so far it totally distorts the image...

The game itself runs at a fair pace allowing for some decent player movement and control which Is the most Important thing in any game, though you can't help thinking that it could have been so much better using the extra GPU power, I'm fairly sure this could have been ported in 2 weeks, I think SSX3 got the developers time that they ran out of time for FIFA.

Next we come onto the music and SFX, again this version has been let down by the straight port from N-Gage, resulting in tinny sound and crowd effects.

The best way to describe the sound is like actually being at a football match and sticking your head in a bucked of water! It's all muffled and takes away somewhat from the experience.

The ball sounds like its a big ping-pong ball bouncing on tarmac, I don't know where the dev team has been recording the sound effects but they aren't with a football on grass that's for sure!

Finally the only half decent sound is the ref whistle, though even that you can tell is compressed so much like the other sound effects, its a really lazy port from the N-Gage that really should have been Improved.

Testament to Pro Evo is the fact that any football game relies more on playability than it does graphics, other examples of this include classics Kick Off and Sensible Soccer, luckily then even with the naff blocky graphics and sound of its N-Gage cousin, FIFA Football 2005 plays like a handheld footy game should play like...fast, frantic and easy to pick up and play.

The 4 main buttons on the Giz all have different functions in ball passing or shooting while in attack, and shoulder barging, tackling while in defensive mode, while the 'R' button is used for sprint, really easy controls to pick up and remember, the top 'L' button when pressed brings up a replay option allowing any time during the game to see the best shot or crunching foul over and over again, you can even save these to the Giz's memory!

Overall the controls suit the game really well and at the time when it was released the N-Gage version was the best handheld footy game anywhere, considering the Giz version IS the same game with a bigger screen and better controls then this Is the best handheld footy game ever, well until Pro Evo hit the PSP!

• Very playable.
• Loads of league and cup options.

A fun footy game that will have you playing for hours with it's cup and league options, even play 2 player head to head over bluetooth!

This just misses out on a gold award due to the fact its a full £30, a port of an 9 month N-Gage game that doesn't use any of the Giz's extra power, but it's still worthy of a silver award and is an essential buy especially if you can pick it up cheaper!

• Poor graphics and sound.
• Not enhanced at all for the Giz.