Blimey, just watched a lot of videos from Gamescom and sigh, I'm just pleased PES looks so good this year because I can't see any difference between this and FIFA11, except with a nice new camera angle and maybe sharper graphics.
The thing is, if no-one is using the tactical defending and just abusing the game's poor physics to ram players off the ball rugby style, then you can guarantee the game's AI is gonna do it too. These new features seem as half arsed and effective as, like I said before, their 'revolutionary' new climate system for World Cup 2010 where playing at high altitude stadiums would radically affect player stamina. It didn't. It was almost non existent. Every year EA boast upgrades (I think before FIFA09 they promised over 2000 improvements) and most are invisible.
Agree again with nerf, the youth system seems like a rehashed scout system from 09. No real improvements. And I'd wager there'll be some kind of buggy problem with it anyways, maybe new youth players won't develop properly or some will disappear if you do x, y or z. I'm being negative about the game but the last three years point to this being a big probability.
Sadly the worse the game gets, the more people seem to buy it which is bizarre in it's own right. But I think that trend will begin to diminish now that it finally has some proper competition again. EA got a lot of new customers because they improved the game tenfold, now seem to be losing a few because rather than ramming home their superiority they've released sub par products that don't work properly and I think they've pandered to the market of under 15's, and how they'd like to see a football game.
