I tweeted Romily Broad regarding the defensive bug where you can walk up and down vertically and not be challenged by the AI. His repsonse was he will look iton it but not really a bug as why would you want to do that. I suppose he has a point as you are really only cheating the game. I won't be doing it as Id get no satisfaction from it.
On another note I wish people would calm down with the whole stats thing. I played PES again last night for the "glorious AI". Whilst the have good movement for me the game is ridiculously point and pass on Top Player mode there is virtually no skill required. I have never played PES properly for a couple of years yet on top player mode it is so easy to score
As an example I picked the ball up in midfield turned and press the chip pass without even thinking it about it. It lands perfectly for my forward running onto it into the box. I dont even aim and press shoot and it more or less volleys it automatically into the top corner. How on earth do people get satisfaction and a sense of achievement from that.
FIFA isn't perfect by any means but comparing bugs and amount of freedom (at time PES overrides your pass choice on many occasions even on 0 bar) its FIFA all the way
Exactly! I'm not sure how people play PES. I don't think I'll touch it until they give the player as much freedom with the ball as FIFA does. Right now, PES in some ways feels like playing FIFA 99. It was a great game at the time, but they year is 2011 not 1998 FFS!
Anyway, to all those complaining about 3 minute halves and wondering how it would feel to play longer games - just get the PC demo, which is graphically superior as well, and edit the rna.ini file. You can set up 6 or 10 minute halves, change the weather to rain or snow and other cool stuff. Of course, you have to have a computer which was made in the last 5 or so years to play the game on PC, but I'm sure most people do have a PC that's more than capable playing FIFA in this day and age. It's not Crysis
I have to say that FIFA is moving in the right direction. I think FIFA 11 was sort of FIFA 10.5. With FIFA 12 I can actually call it FIFA 12.
Tactical Defending is a great addition. It's not so easy to grasp at first (for a day or two), but after that it starts to feel rewarding. For the first time in a football game I'm having almost as much fun defending as I am attacking. That's saying something. It may not be perfect, but it sure as hell beats anything we've seen before.
Precision dribbling is a nice feature, but doesn't really have a huge gameplay effect. Although it is nice to be able to dribble past defenders with the use of only the left stick with Messi,Silva, etc.
The Impact Engine has a great promise, but right now it's riddled with bugs. I hope they get it sorted out for the final release. It has a potential to make the game that much more life-like, but right now its more of a laughing stock and a distraction rather than anything else. I think it needed another year in the "oven" to realize its full potential. One nice thing about it though is the effect it has on player injuries. That was something that was not really a part of FIFA before and now I'm glad that they are back and much much better. If they added trainers coming out on the pitch or a cart getting a player off the pitch that would be top class. I guess they'll probably have something like than in a few years.
Other than that FIFA did add a few nice little touches like quick throw ins, drop balls, better graphics (on PC), better camera, players turning their heads to see what's going on around them and waving their hands in frustration when they feel the ref cheated them, etc, etc.
Oh yeah, I think this year I can feel the "Personality +" feature from FIFA 11 is actually in the game and affecting it. You can definitely tell there is an effect of player's stats on what he can do with and without the ball. Dribbling, tackles, running, jumping, stamina, speed, acceleration, tactical awareness, positioning, vision, all of these stats can be "felt" if you're paying attention. Sometimes, I would even go into the "Squad" menu to check out the stats of a certain player to make sure the action he performed matched the stats and it always did.
Of course there are bugs, and glitches, and other annoyances with FIFA, but it's moving in the right direction. Can't wait for the 27th! I might even buy the season ticket and play it on the consoles for the weekend before properly enjoying it on PC next week.