Re: FIFA 08 (Next Gen Chat)
Woooo!! Sorry I'll try and calm down a bit. Is it better than UCL? What stood out most for you. I'm so excited I've forgotten what quesrtions I wanna ask. But please tell me the guy who was Arsenal was a total newb because Liverpool 4-1 just aint right. How was the shooting and did scoring give you satisfaction?
Yes it's better than UCL without a doubt, even though I'm a big fan of UCL I think this has an all round better feel to it and I really enjoyed playing it.
Yeah the guy who played as Arsenal was a noob, he said it was his first time playing Fifa as he normally plays WE (in fact halfway through he had to ask me which was the shoot button because of course Fifa default is opposite to WE/PES so I had to tell him!).
Shooting I think I've mentioned in fair depth but to reiterate shooting is superb, and scoring is very satisfying, but I'd say that the really nice moves you can put together are almost as satisfying, I put together some great moves as Sheffield Wednesday but sadly I had no end product (just like the Owls in real life!)
What about the player skills? Can you feel the different between ronaldinho and for example materrazi? In the PC Version all players can dribble,shoot, run........ like C Ronaldo or Ronaldinho.
I only played as Liverpool and Sheffield Wednesday, plus a little time as Christiano Ronaldo in the arena, I can say for sure that playing as Liverpool and playing as Sheffield Wednesday feels different, and I found myself playing different, I actually played a shorter game with Wednesday because they didn't have the speed/skills/passing/movement that Liverpool had to play a slightly more direct game that having 3 tall players up front (Babel, Torres, Kuyt) makes me feel like playing.
I would say that different players play and "feel" (I know you like that word
differently, Gerrard as I mentioned is powerful in tackle, strong at running with the ball, Babel is more skilful and agile, Kuyt is less skilful but stronger. Christiano Ronaldo from what little I used him in the arena moves and reacts on another level compared to the average Liverpool or Wednesday player, I guess as he should
Whether or not the difference between players will be enough to make everyone happy I don't know, but at the end of the day I'm very, very impressed and happy with what I've played
so with the increase of player stats, i think we can tweak the players stats for a perfect footi sim like we did in PES! thats something that move the game to a other dimension...
Yeah I think that's the good thing about the amount of stats they have, people must remember that with UCL 360 especially the amount of stats each player had was reduced greatly compared to 07 and 08 because of the whole trading card aspect.
Also it's not just about the attributes you can see, certain players have hidden attributes which help to define the player they are, for example Gerrard is strong on the ball, has a powerful long shot, Lampard will shoot as soon as he can see the goal etc. etc.
id like to say thanks placebo for taking the time and effort to give us an opinion we can trust of the game. Thank you.
You're very welcome, I primarily went because I was jonesing so much for a Fifa fix but to be able to share some info with you guys is also cool
As for whether you can trust my opinion, I certainly wouldn't lie about anything but remember I came into the game being more of a fan of Fifa at this point in time than a fan of PES, but all I can do is answer questions as the best I can
Placebo out of 10 what would you give it on first impressions.
Hmm I'd say 8.5, I didn't get to see any of manager mode, and I couldn't figure out where you edit a player to change his appearance and skin tone etc. etc. so I think 8.5 right now is a fair score
How much better than UCL would you say it is?
How much better than UCL? At least 50%, 07 - UCL I thought was about 25% better so you could say 07 is 75% better than 08
The shooting alone is 37 times as good as 07 and 23 times as good as UCL
edit: You are an admin @ fifa forum/site?
LOL I can understand you asking but no I'm not an admin or anything on any Fifa site, I post under a pseudonym on the official EA forums because I like to be quite vocal in having a whine about the things they leave out of the next gen version. The only football game forum I'm really affiliated with in any way is this one, well if you exclude the vital Sheffield Wednesday forum
As a Southend fan, I was interested to see Tranmere are 1 star?! What does that make us now we keep selling our decent players?! And does that make league 2 sides 1/2 star etc?
Thanks again
I reckon you must be rated higher than at least Tranmere now cos you've just signed the big fella from us, Leon Clarke, who I rate pretty highly even though a number of Owls fans don't, if your fans get behind him and support him I believe he'll score you a few goals
The wife's home now so it's snuggle time, but I'll be happy to answer more questions later after we have swimming lessons, I have a fair bit more info to share, especially about the whole "Gary Neville skill move" question
