21 years ago today, EA Sports made one of their better soccer simulations before the more recent era of FIFA games.
About twenty years ago, the situation with football video games was clear as day. Konami dominated the market with its Pro Evolution Soccer, and at that time there was no debate whether the FIFA series was competitive. However, Electronic Arts had money and was not afraid to spend it. At that time, EA Sports held the license for the most prestigious club competition in football and could afford to make the Champions League a separate game in parallel with the FIFA series.
EA Sports is licensed to UEFA Champions League seized in 2002, and by 2007 had released three games under that name. On this day, they launched the game for the 2004/2005 season and it was their most successful product in that series. The game was based on the FIFA 2005 engine, but many will say that it was even better than it.
In UEFA Champions League 2004-2005 we were able to play the career mode in which we had Mission 50that is, tasks to be completed during the competition, both on and off the field. Gameplay was completely solid, and they were a nice novelty radio broadcasts which were listened to in the menus through the so-called EA Sports Talk Radio.
After this game, EA Sports released another licensed Champions League soccer game in 2007. After that, Konami took over the competition license and held it until 2018. Returning the license to EA Sports only integrated it into the existing FIFA / EA Sports FC series, without separate games.