The commentary in Fifa08 is very poor, both in terms of comments used and how they're implemented, many, many errors this time, I believe the commentary implementation was either rushed or there were budget issues which meant it didn't get the polish it deserved. There is also a number of areas where menus are very poor to navigate, specifically things like no quick movements in the squad, you spend ages scrolling all the way up, all the way down to change players, also anytime there's a menu where you can sort by a certain category, once you view one player, then go back, it's all unsorted again, very poor.
CPU AI is very, very poor, in terms of how they generally go about their football, ie super dribbling, super tackling, making no fouls. Specifically in terms of line-ups and substitutions it is abysmal, example Peter Crouch being brought on as a midfielder, or a defender, defenders being brought on as wingers, players retiring and being replaced with completely inappropriate players, for example Mark Viduka retires and the AI replaces him with Aaron Lennon (a 5 foot nothing winger) as a target man forward, lineups need to constantly be re-assessed based on new players bought, players declining through age, players improving, and the are which absolutely MUST be improved is rotation due to fatigue, seeing players with zero stamina because they're not being rotated is ridiculous, especially the fact that they have zero stamina but can sprint all over the pitch just like your players with full stamina, where's the simulation in that? Poor, poor game design and programming.
Goalkeepers can also be poor, especially with long shots they have a tendency to look away from the ball as they run back to their goal-line, that should never happen, they should step backwards instead, they also react very poorly to crosses, no matter how good the keeper they have a tendency to stay in the middle of the goal-line and let crosses over their head to the far post for an easy tap-in (a strategy the AI uses far too often).
Refereeing is another area that needs significant work, basically the AI never foul and the human player is constantly pulled up for fouls which never are fouls, the AI should be much less perfect in the tackle, we should see AI red cards, AI penalties more often. The other thing that needs fixing is the advantage rule, it's fine playing advantage but it must be pulled back to book the player later on for bad tackles, we should also see straight red card applied properly for fouls when an attacker is through on goal, we should also see straight red cards for very bad tackles from behind.
The screens are fairly clear but they're extremely poor to navigate, it seems to be an EA trait but I can see little thought to make them easy to navigate. You have a roster of 40 players and the only way to navigate is to slowly scroll up and down? That's really bad in a modern age. Also columns that can be sorted are reset as soon as you view one player and then go back, if you've sorted the columns there's a likely reason why you did that and as such don't want them unsorting again after viewing one player.
Mobile phones are for talking to people and sending SMS, I have a 360 for gaming.
You MUST MUST MUST MUST improve your quality control, the amount of bugs/glitches/poorly designed game elements is abysmal, even worse is the shocking lack of caring about such things, an attitude of "we don't fix bugs, people should buy the next version" is shocking and should be put to an end. With Fifa08 you really did a great job of changing football gaming and giving us a simulation of football that the majority want, but you need to fix all the very poorly/cheaply designed elements such as abysmal AI managerial and tactical decisions, also we need a proper edit mode, we need to be able to edit the faces and appearances of players.
Fifa08 is a mixed bag of very good, with very bad, commentary sounds great but is very poorly implemented, gameplay is generally great but spoiled by very poor AI, manager mode is very good but spoiled by bugs, glitches and poor game design (AI roster/fatigue issues and such).
I slagged Barca off a few times haha
Nice. When it asked what teams you use, I just put Various Teams for all of them. I slated the goalkeeping, response times and CPU AI. And said it would be simply amazing to see Be A Pro and Manager Mode combined 
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