Re: FIFA 08 (360 & PS3)
I'm looking forward to FIFA more than PES this year. That's not to say I expect FIFA to play a better football match (although it might), more that I know exactly what to expect from PES. It's clear from all reviews (and videos which look like exactly PES6) that PES2008 plays like PES6 but with added smoothness, which means it's PES6 ported to PS3, and PES6 was the most disappointing PES game to date.
I've not played FIFA07 next-gen with manual passing, but that, along with the other innovations in FIFA08, sound reasonably exciting. That said, there's probably an element of "grasping at straws" trying to find anything new in this years' games and after giving up on PES, which has clearly got lost in a time-warp in 2004, I find my attention switching to FIFA as the game that offers the only hope of a new and interesting football gaming experience.