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FIFA Street 2 for Nintendo DS
FIFA Street 2 for Nintendo DS takes place on small street pitches where two teams of four footballers give each other little space. You choose a team of well-known players and try to beat the goalkeeper with quick combinations, unexpected moves and powerful shots. A match can be about having the highest score when time runs out or being first to reach an agreed number of goals. The smaller playing area quickly brings attackers and defenders together and makes losing the ball immediately dangerous.
Tricks are an important part of attacking. You perform them with the random-move button or through the virtual stick on the touch screen. They earn points for the Gamebreaker meter. Once it is full, you can unleash an extra-powerful shot. In Rule the Street, you create your own player and assemble a team. You improve players with earned Skill Bills, bringing tournaments and new locations within reach. You can also try to win extra footballers for your squad.
Alongside the single-player career and individual matches, there is local wireless play for two people. Each person needs their own DS system and their own copy of FIFA Street 2; sharing one cartridge through Download Play is not possible here. No cable is needed. The second system and the second game cartridge are not included.
Region and language
Our Nintendo DS games are European editions, unless stated otherwise. This product contains a loose cartridge for the European market. A box is only included if explicitly stated in the product details. We note any different region in the product details. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
With FIFA Street 2 for Nintendo DS, you receive a loose cartridge. A box and manual are not included unless we explicitly state otherwise in the product details. This is the standard way we supply this copy.
The history of FIFA Street 2
FIFA Street 2 came to Nintendo DS in 2006 as part of EA Sports BIG. That label used familiar sports as the basis for exaggerated actions and compact matches. For DS, this was the first FIFA Street release, despite the number two in its title. The original FIFA Street had appeared on home consoles a year earlier. With this sequel, Electronic Arts expanded the street-football series to portable devices, including DS.
Exient developed the DS version. It used the core street-football ideas of small teams, tricks and a charging shot meter, but built them around the handheld's own controls. The touch screen received a virtual stick for performing technical moves. The regular buttons remained important for passing, shooting and defending. Attacking therefore required switching between two control areas, a striking experiment in the early years of Nintendo DS.
The different editions of FIFA Street 2 did not have identical content. On DS, quick matches and the Rule the Street career took centre stage, with a custom player and improvements for your team. The extensive juggling and defensive counter-moves from other editions are absent here. FIFA Street 2 mainly shows how EA brought its street-football idea to the dual screens early on, before FIFA Street 3 received a new portable interpretation.
Similar games for Nintendo DS
FIFA 08 on Nintendo DS also uses real footballers, but places them in a complete team on a large pitch. You build attacks through passing and play ordinary competitions or tournaments. FIFA Street 2 shortens the distance to goal and rewards tricks with a powerful shot meter. The same sport therefore produces a different pace: positional play on the pitch versus brief street contests.
FIFA 10 for Nintendo DS lets you lead a club or follow one professional through a career, with matches within ordinary football. You can also design set pieces on a tactical diagram. In FIFA Street 2, you instead improve a street team with earned Skill Bills and unlock new locations. Both feature progression beyond a single match, but connect it to very different footballing goals.
FIFA 09 on Nintendo DS offers Be A Pro, where one player develops their role within a complete team. It shares with Rule the Street the idea of a custom footballer who gradually improves. FIFA Street 2 directs that development towards small teams and technical street matches. FIFA 09 keeps the player within a club season, with a fixed position and performances assessed during every match.
Pro Evolution Soccer 6 for Nintendo DS offers another approach to football with existing clubs and national teams. Passing, creating space and building towards a shot matter more than filling a trick meter. The touch screen helps with formations and penalties; Street 2 uses it for technical moves right in the action. Both match construction and use of the stylus therefore feel different.
Inazuma Eleven on Nintendo DS also makes room for spectacular football moves, but places them within an adventure about a school team. You recruit players, follow a story and build a squad using RPG elements. FIFA Street 2 stays closer to individual matches and a compact street career featuring well-known professionals. Both make team development matter, but Inazuma gives characters and discoveries much more room between the football.
