Well what can i say than just WOW...just WOW.
What a totally abhorrent gaming experience I just had. I got the EA Play for 3.99 and got a refund. I really wanted my 3.99 back for the waste of two hours I had to endure. Remember This is Football on the Playstation 2? Well that is better than this pile of steaming garbage.
Where do I begin?
How about the hundred different options in the controller menu. WTF? Are users that crap at this game they need assists for everything? Why don't they put in an assist for the menu too, just incase we can't navigate up and down.
The player models are horrible, utterly horrible. When they run, and turn, and change direction, its like they are missing animations between the transitions. Theres no organic flow to the movement. No one can just turn on a dime like that, you need foot planting to change direction. And the agile dribbling...yuk. Robotic, unemotional and lacking nuance.
The running animation is scary, long legged nephelim with massive strides. Salah doesn't run like that. Mane doesn't run like that.
The ball. My goodness the ball. Its like a bowling ball. Theres hardly a bounce or a bobble to be seen. But the worst is the lack of ball shadow! I could never tell if the ball was in the air or on the ground, unbelievable for this day and age!
I tweaked the sliders that I normally have and they didn't help. Even giving the cpu a high control error didn't effect them. It was just laser pass, laser pass. They hardly cross from deep either, they just dribble to the line then lob cross it. Everything is concentrated on the pitch in the penalty boxes, no gameplay exists anywhere. The defending is all over the place too, I found myself scrabbling for buttons so I could make a standing tackle. Why, why, why?????
Everything is stiff and fast, theres no flow. Its exactly like watching those esports fifa pros (LOL) play a livestream. Loads of little players making perfect passes and buzzing around the screen with little skill involved.
The last straw for me was when Atheltico Madrid, in one attack from their box to mine, did three overhead kicks, two in the midfield when a simple pass would have sufficed. I immediately ripped the installion out and claimed my money back.
Fifa 20 shits all over this. It had its problems, but it was a far more considered game. Graphically it looks like its taken several steps backwards, its utterly, without remorse, the worst football game I've played for years.
Pes 21 is a far more enjoyable and dare i say it more sim, realistic game of footy with all its faults than this esports garbage.
Goodbye forever Fifa.