Forget about all old systemic footy games, and experience the next-gen of football reality simulation!
The game is "SOLID", in every meaning this word has; player reactions, judgments, and most of all your full control over the match, are all sawed together to create for us one of the most amazing and realistic football action I've ever seen in all football games since Winning Eleven 1.
This game is different in all ways you can think of it; yeah, maybe it is a football game, yeah, maybe you do ball passing and shooting like any other football game, but the way these things happen are now totally random.
You can't compare this game to any other football titles, it is wrong and unfair to judge FIFA 08 that way, you should play it with full attention to the fact that it is the "new" system of playing football games.
I'll not talk about graphics or gameplay, as my last three paragraphs explain my feeling and love to this footy title. I would like from EA next year to work more on presentation, such as having "no cut scenes" at all, and combining them with the real-time match for better experience, that's all.
Enjoy FIFA 08, seriously. :)