winston
Champions League
- 7 August 2005
There are only a limited number of options, and I'm starting to think "team styles" are partial mentality adjustments as opposed to entire-game, entire-pitch tactics. (Like "advanced instructions" in PES.)
For example - I keep mentioning Real Madrid, but... Their passing in the final third, in my demo experience, is just passing the ball around quickly and carefully until they set up an actual tap-in. But over the rest of the pitch I'd say they're the same as any other team.
So lower-league teams... I'd bet they're set to standard custom team tactics - which may no longer work, in order for "team styles" to have a more noticeable effect? In which case, they'll just play "to the difficulty level". So, Legendary = wonder-passing.
All of the above is conjecture, and pointless, I know, but... Aren't we all.
Yes, I'm expecting a limited number of styles but EA's own promotion states:
"catenaccio to counter attack, quick passing to direct play, you'll see some of Europe's best clubs' playing styles authentically recreated and feel a change in defensive and attacking approaches every time you choose a new club or opponent"
So, "every time we choose a new club or opponent" (I read that as every team we play against, not just the few elite teams whose styles are supposedly being recreated), we'll "feel a change in defensive and attacking approaches", which will presumably be limited to possibly as few as 4 styles - "catenaccio to counter attack, quick passing to direct play".
And custom tactics either somehow work alongside those Team Styles, or are disabled to enable Team Styles. It seems to me that Custom Tactics was a great idea that were never really implemented in a meaningful, noticeable way, but had they been, they would have easily been able to capture Team Styles within their numerous settings.
