Overview:
-Estimated achievement difficulty: 6/10
-Offline 40/49 [810/1000]
-Online 0/49 Previously 9 for 190
-Approximate amount of time to 1000: 35 - 50 hours
-Minimum number of playthroughs needed: Multiple games
-Number of missable achievements: None
-Do cheat codes disable achievements? No cheats
-Does difficulty affect achievements? Yes
-Glitchy achievements: None
-Unobtainable achievements: All online achievements due to closed servers
-Extra equipment needed? No
FIFA 08 is the 2008 version of the FIFA franchise. Due to the closure of the servers it is now impossible to get the online achievements if you had none before, so I will not include them in this roadmap. There are some tricky moments in this due to the difficulty settings relating with some of these achievements and the Challenge Modes.
Walkthrough
First of all it is a good idea to make a checklist of the grounds you have played in. You will unlock Tour Bus when you have played in all of them. A list can be found here. Next we will create a whipping team. This will be the team to play against if you want an easy ride through most of the games. Go in to Team Management, Creation Zone then Edit A Player. Pick a team from the English Coca-Cola League 2. I suggest Accrington as they are awful already. Go into every player and edit their stats down so they are rated at 1 in every stat. This will take a while but will be well worth it. Also go into their tactics (Team Management; Squads) and change their tactics to leave gaps at the back by moving their defenders wide. Edit their mentality to All Out Attack and closing down to All Over The Pitch. This will wear them out quickly. These steps will make it much easier if you just play this team for the next few achievements. Just make sure you play as one of the top teams (Man Utd, Barcelona et)
Go to the Main Menu followed by Team Management, Creation Zone, and Create Player. Make yourself a player to unlock Genesis. Give yourself great stats and put yourself at one of the top clubs. Score 3 goals in a game with this player in any game to unlock Scruffy Socks.
Next, go to Game Modes, Create Tournament then New Tournament. Make it a knockout tournament with 2 teams. This will unlock Tournament Creator. Play this game picking whichever sides you wish. Obviously easier against a team with a 1/2 star rating. If you pick amateur difficulty, when you win this game you will unlock Competition Winner and Grass Roots. Now start a game of be a pro against your whipping team. Put yourself as a striker for one of the top teams. Your goal is to achieve a match rating of over 90. Do this by staying in position and scoring a couple of goals. This will get you Single Player Hero. Next play a quick match and make sure you change the difficulty up to semi pro. You are best to change the half length down to as short as you can to make the games go quicker. Win this match to get Part Time Player.
Now it starts getting more difficult as you will start playing games on the harder difficulties. If you play your whipping team it shouldn't be too hard though. Play your next few quick matches on professional difficulty. Win once to get Professional Footballer. Win 5 in a row to get 5 Game Streak. If you think you are going to lose, hit the dashboard button and go back into the game and you will continue your streak. You will need to win 50 games in total on this difficulty to get 50 Game Streak. These don't have to be in a row, just over the course of playing. You should be able to get the 10 Scored achievement in one of these games, and scoring a goal in the first 5 minutes of game time will net you Lightning Finisher. If you feel confident enough, start off by scoring 2 own goals to get Beat Yourself before going on to win. Now we need to step it up to world class difficulty. Use your whipping team again to make this easier. You will notice the difference in difficulty as it will be much harder to get the ball off them. You will need to play at a few games on this difficulty to get the man of the match achievements for getting man of the match with a defender (Defensive Hero) and a midfielder (Midfield Maestro). Don't concede any goals in one of the games to get Blank Sheet and score 5 goals in a game to get World Class Finisher. You may have to increase the half length to give you enough time to get the goals. Winning a game will get you World Class Player. In one game, set the half length to as long as possible. Make sure the game finishes in a draw so you can go into extra time. Score 2 goals to win in extra time to get Extra Bonus. Next play one game and win on legendary difficulty to achieve The Legend. Even playing your whipping team this may prove difficult as they don't let you get near the ball but play short halves and you should be able to nick a goal or two.
Now we can start with management mode. Start off in any league you want, but make sure at the end of every season you change which country you are managing in. Managing 15 different clubs in 15 different leagues will get you the Management Merry-go-round achievement. Make sure when you are in certain leagues your teams win the league unlocking the following achievements.
- English Premiership (UK League)
- French League 1 (French League)
- German Bundesliga (German League)
- Spanish Primera (Spanish League)
- Dutch Eredivisie (Dutch League)
- MLS (US League)
Of course make sure you pick the best team in the league to give yourself the best chance. You don't have to play every game, you can sim for a while, and if your team is not top of the table play a few games until they have a big lead then sim the rest until you win. The other leagues youb don't need to win so you can just sim until you have 15 seasons completed. Finally, you need to play through the challenge modes. Some of these challenges are very difficult and will pose you some difficulties, especially in the later stages. Persevere and with enough time and skill you will get all these, by far the hardest achievements in the game. With any luck you will have the ten challenge mode achievements done.
Online:
There are a total of 9 achievements that are online-based. However, since the release of this game, EA has closed the servers for FIFA 08, so the highest amount of gamerscore you can earn in this game is 810.
Mop Up:
If you have managed to get the challenge mode complete and all of the miscellaneous achievements done, you should only have to play a bunch of games on professional difficulty to get your 50 win streak.
Conclusion:
If you are going back to this after playing the more recent versions, you will find the gameplay a bit clunky and the graphics a bit poor, but it is still a good game. It is a shame that the servers are down but that is EA for you! There are some difficult achievements, but with enough practice they are all doable.
[x360a would like to thank Corrupt x360a for this road map]