Alright, so I realise this might go against the grain a bit. But I've now played a good few hours, mainly in MM and all single player...and...it's still broken in all the sames ways as 09. It actually seems to me that they haven't tried to improve the single player experience one bit.
Great, we have 360 dribbling, and skill moves, but who f*cking cares, when all the CPU defender, of any skill level of course, has to do to disposess is look in your general direction.
Maybe Ive just played too much single player FIFA, and EA cant improve it anymore. Certainly they don't appear to have tried. This is the pattern to all of my matches:
- I can't keep posession in crowds, and players stumble around like there's an earthquake whenever the screen gets crowded
- I can get good space out wide, and crossing looks nice, but its dull to just play that way.
- At some point the computer has enough, and decides its time to score. They cannot be tackled at that point. They run horizontally across the field leaving a stumbling, bumbling mess of my defenders in their wake. And theyre playing for a league one side.
- Shooting is wrong. I like it, it feels good. But on full manual its overly sensitive, and on semi (ive never played auto) its a joke. You can tell from what position youre in if you have a chance fo scoring, because its scripted and the keepers are gods. How often do you end a game with 1 or 0 goals, but youve had 12 shots on target? Thats simply not realistic.
- The CPU however, will take their one chance a match, if they even get one.
- Do EA watch football matches, and think, wow, it's so interesting that every single goal comes from a one on one. Those strikers do get through that defensive line that stand on the halfway line alot. We'll make our game that way.
- What do you think EA call the script that says 'Oh that was a good sliding tackle by the human, we better make it so that when they stand up they run away from the ball, so the CPU player has time to get up off the ground, and claim the loose ball'
Its so annoying. They might have well of just come out and said, look single player fans, were not actually improving that this year. Sorry!
I'm annoyed, I really expected all the new freedom to translate into a better game, but its still the same cheating crap. Maybe thats all the programmers can come up with.
Just for variety I might ahve to try PES this year

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