FIFA is not a simulator either. It's closer to FIFA Street but with 11 players and pitch instead of home bloc

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Skills kill FIFA. Animations? Have you seen FIFA 12 animations?! Dude they are way worse than on FIFA 10! Or FIFA 11 on PC for that matter. How did they ruin them is beyond me.
I'm also on the side which thinks that FIFA got worse in last 2 years. If they polished FIFA 10 up, then I wouldn't even look in PES direction (after all FIFA 10 was the one I played most on console

). After that FIFA 11 on PC took the crown (played that one for 1.5 years, straight

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FIFA 12 ruined it all. Starting with pointless sliders (rubbish thing if you ask me and broken beyond belief too, also nice cheating mechanism for VP and so on), collision system which does not work as intended to, etc.
FIFA 12 feels more like full priced beta (which should be released for free

), than full fledged game.
You may bash me, whatever, I've played football games for almost 18 years now, so know quite about their evolution and revolution.
However, FIFA 13 trailers as well as the other game trailers both don't look promising... Guess demos will tell the whole story. Again :/.