You can hardly accuse EA of missing a trick - the company appears to find every way possible to monetise its premium franchises. FIFA Street 3 is the version of its market-leading football game that moves the action from the football pitches to the backstreets.

What's more, it injects a more exaggerated and impressive array of tricks for the assorted players, chucking little bits of realism out of the window in the process, but keeping the spirit of a bit of a kickaround.

That said, it doesn't lack the traditional FIFA gloss. Beautiful visuals, real players (although deliberately adopting a different graphical style from a straight recreation) and picturesque locations are present and correct, and it all encourages you to get down to the action quickly.

And when you do, in the short term, it's good fun. Working out the tricks of your assorted players is entertaining, and the game encourages you not to take things too seriously, and to utilise the various moves built into FIFA Street 3.

Naturally the tricks vary from the simple to learn through to the more sophisticated, so there's merit to practising the game. The more tricks you do, the quicker your Gamebreaker fills up. This is a gauge that, when it reaches the top, can transform your team into a far more superpowered outfit. It's really good fun, too, and well worth working up to.

But there's a problem. As much fun as FIFA Street 3 proves to be in the short term, it doesn't have enough in the tank to sustain it. There's simply not enough in the game to do, to push you and to challenge you. It's a game that spills most of its tricks in the first weekend, and leaves you digging out the fuller, richer FIFA experience instead. Sure, the tricks are fun, and it's a surprisingly straightforward game to pick up and play, but you'll rightly be hunting for a bit more depth to the game itself, and it's simply not there.

Of course it's a different matter if you're playing with a friend, and that does transform the experience as you'd expect. You can forgive many of FIFA Street 3's foibles in the midst of an over-the-top match up with a friend, but it does rely on this to earn it any kind of medium term recommendation.

In all, FIFA Street 3 is a perfectly serviceable, exaggerated football game, that still has work to do three games into the franchise. We can't help harking back to something like Sega Soccer Slam, a single game that never warranted a sequel, for a more arcade-focused footballing recommendation.

FIFA Street 3 is a passable single player experience, and a good game to play in multiplayer. There's still so much more that EA could do with a less-than-serious FIFA derivative, though, and there's not enough evidence of that here.