My patience has run out now. The same gripes that haunted 08 have come back again and now I cannot stop seeing them in my games.
I've got 2 MMs - one as Wycombe in Lg2 and one as Charlton in the CCC.
Wycombe was going ok, but I have the same problem as Chris - all the games are the same - but that said, it was enjoying it to a point.
The Charlton MM is horrible. The matches are pad-throwingly frustrating and EVERY game follows the same pattern.
1) Knock it around as 'thats the way to play FIFA'.
2) Try to dribble forward and have the ball nicked off your toes every time.
3) Try to play long ball - cut out by defender.
4) Try to get ball wide - every sort of cross cut out by defender.
5) Try to pass it around quickly - animations slow to react.
6) Shoot from distance - ball flies over.
7) Rinse and repeat every fucking game in a 46 game season.
The thing that really spoils FIFAs gameplay for me are the animations - and I'm not saying that as some graphic-whore-saddo. Let me explain!
The animations ARE superb and yea, better than PES blah blah - the problem I am on about is every pass has to go through the 'trapping animation' and in that split second, you can most likely lose the ball.
The right-stick trapping doesnt seem as effective - it either does nothing or if you hold it down, knocks it too far away. Same with long balls, you always see the jumping up chest animation where 9 times out of 10, the ball bounces 10 feet away from you.
This is one good thing with PES is that they have an animation that is organic to where the ball is bouncing. I.e. if its waist high, you might do a crouching header, if its bouncing up knee high - a jumping back heel etc.
Just means the game flows so much better as its not stop/start/lose ball all the time when building attacks.
There are (horrible) faults with both games, but I know I will play PES more, so FIFA is no redundant.
I'll be sticking on AVF tonight for around £30 as I'm off to Roots Hall now.
Wish I could like it - but hey, maybe FIFA 2010
