''UEFA Euro 2000'' is the official game of

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football tournament hosted in Belgium and the Netherlands. The game was published by EA Sports and developed by EA Canada. It is available for PC and PlayStation. The game was EA Sports' first game based on the

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after obtaining the official licence from

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, which had previously been held by Gremlin Interactive. The game features all 49 teams from the

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of the Euro 2000 championships, as well as the hosts Belgium and the Netherlands who qualified for the finals automatically. The player can choose one of the teams and attempt to qualify them for the tournament and then participate in the finals themselves.

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provides the game's music, whilst commentary is from

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and

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Reception

Critical

Reviewing the PlayStation version, PlayStation Max made several comparisons to EA Sports' other football video game, ''

FIFA 2000 ''FIFA 2000'' (titled ''FIFA 2000: Major League Soccer'' in North America) is a football simulation video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts. It was the seventh game in the main '' FIFA'' series. The game was released ...

''. They considered ''Euro 2000'' to very similar but slower and more jerky to play than ''FIFA 2000'' and also noted that it contained fewer teams compared to ''FIFA'' due to its focus on European international teams, whereas ''FIFA'' has international teams from across the world as well as club teams. This led to a rating of 65%. ''

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'' gave the same console version a negative review, stating, "It is tough to believe this game has been thoroughly playtested, but it's clearly passed all the necessary criteria to warrant shelf life. The whole product feels incredibly rushed, with more emphasis on making the menu system look nice than making a game worth playing." The site went on to say, "Even in the graphics department, things have taken a slight nose-dive, with player definition not up to the usual standards. The one saving grace is the crowd and commentary, but it's made pretty much redundant when offset against the game's overall failings," which led to a score of three out of ten.

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reviewed the PC version, commenting that the frame rate that the game ran at had dropped compared to ''FIFA 2000'' possibly due to increased crowd and stadium detail. Noting the similarities between the game and ''FIFA 2000'', they cited it as a "classic example of the company milking the soccer fan's money for yet another largely identical game of the ''FIFA'' soccer series" and suggested to "wait for ''

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''".

References

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* {{Authority control 2000 video games Association football video games EA Sports games Electronic Arts games Esports games Europe-exclusive video games FIFA (video game series) PlayStation (console) games UEFA Euro 2000 UEFA European Championship video games Video games developed in Canada Video games set in 2000 Video games set in Belgium Video games set in the Netherlands Windows games