Once you get past the somewhat annoying controls this proves to be a diesant game.
One thing that really annoyed me was the annoying control scheme. The A button is pass but it is also the button for changing players...I found this very annoying because if you want to run on to the ball and then pass it to another player; if you tap pass even a microsecond out of time then it will change you to another player and the ball will no doubt be taken off you.
I also found it annoying when you got to pass it...if you accidentally (or purposely for that matter) tap pass twice; the ball go to the player then he will immediately just randomly kick the ball into space and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.
Aside from the annoying control scheme (being the only negative about this game) I found that this is generally a very good game and even non-soccer lovers will enjoy it. The ability to make this game as long or as short as you want is also great because you can choose the time of each half....you can have anything from a 4 minute game to a 90 minute game. I personally choose a 16 minute game (8 minute halves) because that way it makes the game last a little bit longer than it normally would (the standard is 6 minute halves)
All together with 8 minute halves it took me 14 hours to play through 2 full qualifying tournaments and a full FIFA tournament so were looking at quite an average game in length All in all I give FIFA 2006 a 7.5/10 because..hey despite the annoying controls this is still a pretty good game and I think that it would be fun for anybody aged between 10 and 100.