This FIFA nextgen, from what I played so far, seems to be the best FIFA in years.
Most of my matchs were player vs player offline, assisted controls, slow speed and world class AI. I really like how AI position themselves defensively, and with the right stick to switch players, wich works very nice, I can always move my players to fill gape and keep the team in shape. The midfield has more presence in defence now, they form a line to protect defenders, they get closer to the defence line. This FIFA is the first in years that you feel forced to pass the ball around as you can not just make some passes forward and get in one on one situations só easily like in some previous FIFA.
I honestly think that even the assisted passing is not bad at all like in other Fifa's. You definetly have to concetrarte a bit more to link some passes together, you can not just hit the X blindly expecting the ball to quickly reach your traget's feet, it's important to put the right weight on the ball. Something that I like a lot a lot in This FIFA is how well the game knows the intended target (the player whom you want to pass to) depending on the power you put on the ball. I played on manual already but I'm yet to play in semi wich seems to be nice option.
Movement physics are not what I'd like to see but it's definetly improved compared to the Last FIFA I played (Fifa 12) wich was awful in this aspect. There are still some gliding movements but players are not changing directions with the ball under controll instantly, they stop a bit and the body reacts properly. They still haver much work to do tho.
Dribbling seems to be better as well. I manged to dribble past defenders without using special skills, ball control animations are more refined. This also needs to be improved in the next version, but it's definetly better than in previous Fifa. I also felt more confortable and more confident when dribblind with Ribery than with any other Bayern player, and that was just not because of speed, but also better ball controll, he can quickly change directions in tight spaces better than his teammates. Individuality is not as pronounced as in PÉS 2013 but it's clearly better that in any other Fifa.
I couldn't also forget to mention how first touch is also much better now and it's relevant to the game.
Oveall the game is good and it has been a plesureable surprise from what I've played so far. There are still needs to make more notable improvements in some areas, but this is without a doubt a good start for FIFA on this new generation and makes next Fifa sounds more promising.
