Does anyone else hate how you can make a 180 degree clearance and it'll go all the way to the other end?
Yeah I hate that, very unrealistic, as is sprinting madly after a ball that has been played over the full back to the winger and hooking a clearance away which goes in a perfect straight line next to the sideline which doesn't go out of play, making the attacking team lose all their momentum. In real life the only options you would have really are to head/clear the ball out of play for a throw, hooking a perfectly straight clearance all the way up the line is not an option.
I also don't like how passes can be intercepted so easily, even if the defender is wrong footed (momentum going one way, pass aimed the other) - it turns a lot of matches into scrappy midfield slugfests.
This game is getting boring and repetitive for me now for the following reasons:
Online - 99% of people are dickheads, using 5 star teams constantly, having all assisted controls and using cheap tactics such as the kick-off bug and cutbacking. They also constantly hold A and B (which gets the controlled player and another AI player to pressure you), and because of the response times, this is a very effective tactic which gives you little/no time on the ball, you can't do a smart change of direction to go past them either because the AI which controls how the players pressure you is too responsive to changes in direction. Everyone online does it and it is fucking stupid how effective it is, if you try and pass it round to avoid them then it just gets intercepted because anything within 5 yards of a player gets intercepted it seems...
If someone closed me down all game in PES5/6 I would murder them at it and win by a few goals easily most of the time because well timed traps and changes in direction would skin them or win free kicks most times - The way to defend in PES was to block off passing lanes and back off a player until the right moment when you can nip in and take the ball (like real life) but in FIFA it is just constantly close down all match.
Also, 5v5 online isn't all it was cracked up to be with it being even more unresponsive, people pausing the game constantly, people quitting when they start losing, people abusing each other, people rushing for the best players on the player select screen etc.
Offline - The AI always has a perfect defensive line, is too responsive to your tricks/turns, Manager Mode is unrealistic, the underdog AI, all teams play the same style.
Game design - The keepers in this game are terrible - they are almost unbeatable at their far post and awful at their near post, this should be the opposite, too many shots are parried and instead of pushing shots round the post, they push them into a strikers path for an easy rebound goal because the keepers are so slow to get up off the floor and react to a second shot.
The shooting is crap, you can't hit it with much power and none of the shots dip and they only seem to curl if they are mishits, the volleys are also crap, I have never seen one volley on FIFA go up in the air and then dip down, this is one of my favourite things about PES5, how some of the shots dip. I have never even seen a full volley (ball not bounced) struck cleanly in FIFA, they all roll along the floor or fly miles over.
Player ratings making no difference - Only speed and strength have a big impact on the game it seems.
Set pieces - Defensive free kicks end up just being hit and hope hoofs because of the terrible camera angle, you can't tell where your srikers are. Attacking free kicks are repetitive because you always have to aim for the same corner (over the wall) apart from when you are right at the edge of the box. The corners are rubish as you can't see where your players are, and the aerial challenge system is crap, chich I will come onto...
Aerial challenge system - It sucks, a maximum of 2 players can challenge for the same ball, and only the one who the AI decides will win the challenge attempts to head it.
Player models being too similar - In PES you could easily tell the difference between two players based on their height and build, on FIFA you have to look at the player name bar because they all look similar. It's hard to even tell the difference between black and white players sometimes, you have to look closely.
Playing PES5 with some mates just highlights the faults in this game even more, I love how you can use super cancel to muscle smaller players off the ball (but risk giving a foul if you do it too much) and take your players off their "rails" with super cancel to get to a ball first.
It had mazy dribbles, spectacular volleys, unstoppable powerful strikes, powerful headers, glancing headers, nice free kicks, goal-line blocks etc. FIFA matches seem to be much the same every time and it gets repetitive.
. So when I get to Newmarket and have no internet access I will load up FIFA and then load my Squads 2 and then do the transfers that I will have printed out. Then after they are all done I will save and overwrite Squads 2, but then also save again to a new slot called Squads 3. Then before I start my Manager Mode, I should make sure that Squads 2 is loaded.
but he could of carried on the 1v1 but didn't
