This product is like new. At NexWave Games, like new means:
Additionally, all discs at NexWave Games are carefully inspected and assessed for quality. When discs arrive, we do not accept any that are so badly damaged that they are unlikely to work. We only accept discs with light scratches at most. Discs with scratches are then treated in our professional disc repair machine. By warming the disc and polishing it with soft brushes, these machines can remove a very thin layer from the disc. This removes the layer containing surface scratches and improves the disc’s readability. This ensures the disc works properly, even on consoles with ageing lasers that have difficulty reading games! Great news for the player.
FIFA Football 2004 for PlayStation 1
In FIFA Football 2004 for PlayStation 1, you control a football team throughout full matches. You build an attack with short passes, look for a striker with a through ball or send a high cross in from the wing. Direction, position and power matter when shooting. Without the ball, you choose a defender who can intervene, while a late sliding tackle can concede a free kick or earn a card. The radar shows the positions of your other players.
Play Now takes you into an individual match. In Season, you choose a club from twelve leagues and play three consecutive seasons for league and cup honours. You change lineups, review results and make team decisions between matches. Tournaments provide shorter campaigns. Custom Cup lets you put together your own competition, for example with a group stage followed by knockout matches. You choose club or national teams to fill your own field of entrants.
You can play alone against the computer or with up to eight people locally. Three to five players require one PlayStation Multitap; six to eight require two Multitaps. Each player uses a separate controller. Save competition progress manually with Save Game in More Options on a PlayStation memory card, so you can play the next match later. The card belongs in memory card slot 1, or slot 1-A on the first Multitap when you use one.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
FIFA Football 2004 for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of FIFA Football 2004
FIFA Football 2004 came out in 2003, several years after the PlayStation 2 had launched. Electronic Arts continued to support the first PlayStation with a separate football release. The title uses the 2004 season, but therefore appeared in the previous calendar year. That annual update changed the squads and presentation around a familiar foundation: passing, defending and shooting on the pitch yourself, with competitions you could save on a memory card between sessions.
The original PlayStation manual describes Season as three consecutive seasons with a club from twelve leagues. You could also play existing tournaments or assemble your own field through Custom Cup. That choice gave both fixed league schedules and cups of your own design a place. Between matches, you adjusted the team and checked statistics. The season structure thus linked the direct football action to decisions whose effects would emerge in later matches.
This instalment shows how long football continued on Sony's original console. One television could accommodate a large group of players with two Multitaps and enough controllers connected. Outside those gatherings, one player could continue working through a competition and save the next fixture for later. FIFA Football 2004 was not the last FIFA on the first PlayStation, either: FIFA Football 2005 also appeared for the system. That makes 2004 a late step in a longer console history.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
FIFA Football 2003 for PlayStation 1 uses the same kind of direct football controls, with passes, crosses and switching to a defender. It has a separate Club Championship involving eighteen European clubs. FIFA Football 2004 presents different choices, including Season with clubs from twelve leagues across three consecutive seasons. The similarity lies in the football on the pitch; the available match campaigns and historical squads determine which year you would rather replay.
Like FIFA Football 2004, FIFA 99 for PlayStation 1 combines domestic leagues with international club matches. Its European Dream League brings twenty European clubs together in a separate competition. FIFA 2004 lets you play three consecutive seasons in Season with a club from twelve leagues. The earlier game gathers those leading European clubs into a dedicated field; the later game links a fixed club choice to a longer schedule. In both, you decide the winner yourself on the pitch.
FIFA Football 2002 for PlayStation 1 combines club matches with national teams and qualification football around the 2002 World Cup. FIFA Football 2004 also offers national sides, but its Season with clubs from twelve leagues provides a different longer campaign. Finding space, passing and finishing chances remain familiar. If you mainly want to guide a national side through qualifying, the earlier game gives the same kinds of football actions a different goal.
Like FIFA Football 2004, Pro Evolution Soccer 2 for PlayStation 1 offers complete football matches with a team you steer around the pitch yourself. Master League gives Konami's game its own long-term structure, centred on strengthening a squad. FIFA 2004 uses Season and separate cup tournaments, alongside a configurable Custom Cup. The actions within an attack are therefore similar, while squad building and the route through subsequent matches are organised differently.
This Is Football 2 for PlayStation 1 shares eleven-a-side football and lineup adjustments with FIFA Football 2004. Sony’s season competition includes promotion, relegation and qualification for European tournaments. FIFA 2004 offers its own Season of three consecutive seasons within twelve leagues, plus Custom Cup, where you choose participants and the tournament format. Both give individual results meaning within a larger schedule: Sony includes movement between competitions, while EA also lets you play cups you have assembled yourself.
