Just played 4 or 5 more matches as England in the qualifying mode and my feeling right now is that the game is shit, really not liking it at all, yes responses are improved, yes it has rain, but the feeling of being in control of my player is gone, movement seems spongy and less controlled than Fifa08, manual passing now is a fucking joke, fifa08 had it pretty much spot on other than perhaps lobbed through balls which needed work but now manual passing is far from manual and is next to useless. Don't get me started on opponent AI because it's shocking, played Macedonia at home, semi pro, I'm England, there was one point in the first half for about 10 minutes I couldn't get the ball off them, they completely passed it around me and dribbled around me as if they were Arsenal and I was Accrington Stanley, 20-30 passes without a single one being off target, pathetic, AI can super pass, super dribble, super tackle no matter who they are, if this is what Fifa09 is going to be based on they can fuck right off.
Playing Euro just makes me want to go back and play Fifa instead, so I guess it's back to Fifa08 manager mode with Sheffield Wednesday for me