Feast on football

Europe will be in the grip of football fever this summer, and here are some of the beautiful game's most beautiful games.

This summer, with May's Champions League final followed by Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland, football fans are in for a treat. And what better way for you and your friends to warm up for the big matches than to line up on the pitch.

Pro Evolution vs FIFA

Few games have divided fans like Pro Evolution Soccer and FIFA; like their favourite team, devotees to each series would never dream of crossing to the other side.

Shingo 'Seabass' Takatsuka has refined his Pro Evo series over the last decade, focusing on exhilarating end-to-end football that makes every game feel like injury time in a World Cup Final. FIFA games have always strived for realism, benefiting from EA's experience in developing sports games, and boasting authentic squads and meticulously detailed player models, kits and stadiums.

The most recent iterations, Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 and FIFA 08, both make excellent use of the power of PlayStation 3 to offer the most visually impressive football games ever seen. Pro Evo boasts completely new Artificial Intelligence to ensure computer controlled team mates use the ball and the space around them as you would expect from a world class footballer. FIFA introduces the exciting Be a Pro mode, in which you control a single player of your choice and are rated according to your positional awareness and impact on the game.

Europe holds its breath

The world will be glued to the European Championships in Austria and Switzerland this summer, and the official Euro 2008 game from EA captures the sights and sounds of this quadrennial celebration of European football. As well as all the teams and matches from both the qualification stages and the tournament itself, the game features Battle of the Nations - a league table charting the online performance of players from across Europe to decide which country is home to the best players.

If you need a break from realism, FIFA Street 3 is a flamboyant game of four against four, set in different street locations from around the world and featuring caricatures of more than 250 of the world's best players. Ostentatious trickery is the key to victory, or you could go for no-nonsense aggression...

All games offer comprehensive multiplayer modes, both offline and online, to keep rivalries going long after the real-life final whistle

Sing when you're winning

Anyone who has been to a stadium knows how much football fans like a sing-song, and you can celebrate victory at the top of your voice with SingStar and SingStar Vol. 2 on PlayStation 3. The SingStore is home to hundreds of downloadable tracks, including terrace favourites from The Undertones and Kasabian.

We hope you enjoy what promises to be a wonderful summer of football. It's not called the beautiful game for its goals, tricks or stadiums, but because it unites people and puts them through the entire spectrum of emotions, together. And that's what you can do with these great games on PlayStation.

Good luck to whoever you're supporting this summer.