Overview:
Estimated achievement difficulty: Based on a scale of 1-10 (10 being hardest): 6/10
Offline:26 (735)
Online: 8 (265)
Approximate amount of time to 1000: 25+ hours (900) + 9 Cup Wins (see Roadmap)
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Number of missable achievements: 0
Do cheat codes disable achievements? None
Does difficulty affect achievements? Maybe
Glitchy achievements: Friendly Publicity, Shopping Spree, and Globetrotter.
Unobtainable achievements: None
Extra equipment needed? Second controller
Introduction
Hello, and welcome to the roadmap/walkthrough for FIFA Street! This is my first attempt at a roadmap, so bare with me. Make sure to read through the Disclaimers/Help paragraphs too before embarking on this journey.
FIFA Street is the latest iteration of the FIFA Street series (correctly titled FIFA Street 4) coming out of EA Vancouver. FIFA Street brings more "realism" to the Street series doing away with most of the arcadey aspects of its predecessor. In the beginning, the game shows promise, but due to a number of issues addressed in the later parts of this roadmap, to say FIFA Street is a disappointment might be an understatement.
Breakdown
Start and Play Through World Tour Mode: This mode will be where you unlock most of your achievements. This is basically the “story” mode of the game and you are required to beat 4 stages with roughly 5-6 required events per stage. Some events are quicker than others, but most are tournaments, which are 3 games to qualify, and a knockout round of another 3 games to win the tournament. The nice thing is that you will not miss any achievements by playing on the easiest difficulty, so go for it. If you want to save some time, during your World Tour playthrough go for Very Entertaining, Who brought the snacks?, 5 Tool Player, Time to Celebrate, andShopping Spree. Note:When you start challenging “real” clubs, and you get to “take” a player, only do so once.Mighty Heroesrequires at least 8 created (real world players do not have levels) players to level 50.
Grind Out Your Level 50s
After completing your World Tour playthrough, you might have one or two players at level 50, but the rest are high 30’s low 40’s. Luckily, there is an easy way to boost “experience” in this game. It is boring and way grindy, but it is the best way. Check out my solution for Mighty Heroes.
Go After Globetrotter
Just like in almost every FIFA for the 360, there is an achievement to play and win in every venue. You should get the 50% achievement about 75% through World Tour. Refer to my solution for a list of venues.
Online Work Part 1
The absolute worst part of this game is saved for last. First knock out the easier online achievements, Online Enthusiast and World Tour Around the World. It will help that your team is 95+ now, and hopefully online play will be easier because of that. Keep in mind that your wins and losses online in World Tour online mode are kept track in Street Season. Any match that is played online over Xbox Live, and is ranked should(see Disclaimer #2) count. In order to get Moving on up, you will need at least 6 out of 10 wins in ranked online multiplayer modes. Unfortunately, every 10 matches, it resets your record for that “season”, and if you have 6 wins, you don’t get automatically promoted, just tank the rest to 10 and you’ll get the achievement.
Mop Up
In case you are missing anything, go back and take care of those. After this point, you should only have 2 achievements left.
Online Work Part 2
This is where it gets fun. And if you are still reading this, you are in it to win it, and I like your style. The last two achievements in the game are related to Online Cups. If you are familiar with FIFA 12, you would know what these are about. The bad news is that they are only open for a limited amount of time (weekends only), and you have to win 4 Xbox Live multiplayer ranked matches (in this specific mode) in a row to claim the cup. If you are still following a long, you need to do that, 8 more times (9 total) across 9 different weeks. If you miss a cup weekend, then you would theoretically (assuming the cups appear in order and cycle that way) have to wait another 8 weeks for another shot.
Disclaimers
1. As of this moment, there are people out there that are complaining of a glitched achievement, Friendly Publicity (15), which involves watching a friends video in the EA News Media tab. I have not unlocked this achievement either, and I have watched multiple videos, multiple times, from different friends. People seem to be unlocking it somehow, guess a few are just unlucky.
2. This should go without saying because it is an EA game, but there are problems with the Street Seasons mode. I probably won 13 games in World Tour mode (online tournaments) and even in Street Seasons mode and it gave me credit for 5 wins. The achievement is definitely obtainable, just might take more than 10 matches unless they patch it. Since this disclaimer has to do with online. If someone quits (I assume by dashboarding, turning off their Xbox, ect) and not Start>Quit Match, the match does not count as a win or loss, it never happened. Very frustrating if you are winning and someone quits at the last second.
3. Just wanted to reiterate that it will take 9 weeks + skill at minimum to fully complete this game. There is a good chance at week 7+, there will need to be some boosting groups of 16 people to obtain the cup win. I don’t see people sticking around and playing the online 2 months from now. In Division Cup mode, you play people in the same position you are in, so as the online community dwindles, there are less random chances of getting a match for the finals, and of course you still have to win it.
Tips
Online: Even though this is FIFA Street, almost everyone I have played online has adopted the “mini” FIFA 12 strategy of playing online. I’d like to think I pioneered this movement, but I doubt it. Basically, what this means is that people online are not using tricks as a way to get open and score goals, they are using passing, and setting up goals the traditional way. Don’t get me wrong, if you can use tricks well, they work in your favor, but if you are novice with the tricks just play FIFA. A few things to throw out there that might help you win online matches. Use the edges of the court to your advantage. A lot of goals I score are by a “winger” sprinting down the side closest to the screen and looking for a trailer, someone in the middle of the court that is making a run towards goal. If you can drag the keeper with your winger, the greater the chance your trailer has to score a goal. I used the ground pass or cross equally with success. Get the ball to your best player. My best player was “me”, and I made him 6’4’’ and super skinny (real world me too). I like to just use him sometimes to create chances. Work the defense left to right until you can get a clear shot, and depending where the keeper is at, fire it down the line, or diagonally into the top corner. I like to go one way, quickly turn to the other way, and fire a goal. Seems to work with moderate success.
Futsal: This is by far the hardest game mode in the game. The goals are smaller, there are no walls to keep the ball in play, and fouls are called. If you are having trouble using skill or trick moves to score goals. Use my strategy for online, but only cross the ball into the middle of the court. It seemed almost every header I connected on was a goal on Bronze difficulty. Also, the best chance to score a goal is inside the goalie circle. Make sure you put enough power on it though, so that it just sneaks under the crossbar, anything lower, and it will probably be saved.
Conclusion
This game has its moments of being a great street soccer, or football, game, but it is marred by glitchy achievements, repetitive "story" mode, and a 100 point achievement which will take you 9 consecutive weekends to finish, if your lucky. If you are in it for the completion, be very careful before putting this is your disc drive.
[x360a would like to thank moronicco for this Roadmap]