Re: FIFA 08 (Next Gen Chat)
Great goal Tim7 -
WHat a great complete package this year from EA - Much praise must be given.
Just the fact the you can upload your faveourite goals and watch others' goals will be awesome. A truely great feature.
Im loving the demo - honestly - i could just kick about in the arena for hours on end. What would be cool is a 2 player arena - so you can do tackling and shooting sort of thing. Like on the nba game.
The game has such a class sheen about itself, all the animations etc have such a life-like feel to them. Tricks in game are hard to pull off corectly, and effective when they do come off. Just as it should be.
Keepers are also a huge improvement for me, although a little suspect on crosses, where they turn their backs on the ball for a second, hopefully this will be solved in the final version.
Shooting and crossing is also improved, where again now you have to think about the players direction of travel and balance and timing before hitting a wonder strike. (something that annoys me about pes, bad shots seem to be just random)
Overall, its a great challenge, and you have to work hard for your good move and goals. Which again is how it should be.
Another thing for me is this:
When Placebo stated that different players 'feel' different, i didnt believe him. Although i respect Plaebos great work on here and i loved reading his review, but i have to admit - i thought he got caught up in the moment and was maybe over excited. Well i hold my hands up mate, cause you were right. Ronaldinho is really classy on the ball, Toure seems really strong, messi is an ooiyning little bastard clicking round people heels etc etc. players with different stats do feel a lot different which is great becuase for me it was something lacked in the previous games.
So sorry placebo for doubting you!
The final test for me is how the lower (crapper) sides play. Its ok in the demo where we play as some of the best sides, but for me, how EA make the lower leagues sides worse will be the clincher.
