The game controls will be familiar to anyone who's played FIFA, and since it's clearly a console port, a controller works much better than the keyboard.

The only provided field is Arsenal's Emirates Stadium, and the matches are limited to one four-minute half. The demo allows you to play as and against Manchester United (U.K.), Lyon (France), Werder Bremer (Germany), AC Milan (Italy), Guadalajara (Mexico), or Barcelona (Spain), and each team includes recognizable superstars, like controversial World Cup star Cristiano Ronaldo.

It's fun to play with famous players like Ronaldinho, Lionel Messi, and Wayne Rooney, and it's hard to knock a demo that allows unlimited four-minute matches with six international club teams, but there's simply not enough content or customization to warrant a higher rating. That said, the 550MB download doesn't deliver anything unexpected or much different from the demo for 2006 FIFA World Cup. Another global football (soccer) season means another edition of EA Sports' excellent soccer sim, and we shouldn't take this FIFA 07 demo for granted, considering that FIFA's hefty cousin Madden NFL hasn't provided a trial version in years.

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