The commentary is better than ever with Alan Smith drafted in to help Martin Tyler and the crowds are as chanty as ever.įor those of you looking for a bit more depth, the Career Mode should cater for all your needs as the management aspects are pretty beefy for this kind of game, with all the usual transfer options as well as the ability to update your backroom staff and even talk to the press. A lot has been made of this on the various idiot forums out there and it’s not as big a change as people are claiming but it does feel like a nice refinement, even if playing FIFA these days seems to require having octopuses for hands.Īs expected, the matches are represented in beautifully detailed and animated graphics and the players are well-represented as well, with Wayne Rooney looking suitably ugly and Joey Barton looking like he wants to fight you. There is now a choice of defensive techniques available to you, from the usual standing and sliding tackles to blocking and jockeying. The main on-the-pitch change is to the defending. Pretty much everything you can do on the pitch gives your player a stat boost until you’ve either created a goalscoring genius, a skillful playmaker or a silky defender and nabbing these ‘accomplishments’ is pretty addictive, to the point where you can easily spend half an hour in the arena trying to score freekicks or dribble past the keeper. Albeit one that doesn’t look like a girl with Downs. Most of the time these just involve wiggling your right analog stick and hoping you turn into Zidane but the sheer amount of variation is impressive and the more stuff you do with your virtual pro, the better he gets until you’ve got the next Messi on your hands. As with previous efforts, this iteration of FIFA gives you plenty of room to express yourself with all manner of tricks to pull off. You can also choose to play matches as a team or just by controlling your individual ‘virtual pro’ so there’s plenty of variation in there. Typically, FIFA 12 throws in your usual exhibition matches, leagues and cups as well as a fat career mode that can be played as a player, a manager or both.
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Sure, the box blurb and excitable cocksuckers at other, less good review sources will harp on about ‘improved AI’, ‘more realistic collisions’ and other completely unquantifiable bullshit but when it comes down to it, I play the same way I played every game in the series more or less. The short version is that FIFA 12 just about does enough to warrant a purchase, but with the understanding that when it comes to the nuts and bolts of the game engine, this hasn’t really changed that much. After all, FIFA 11 was barely distinguishable from FIFA 09, with EA having settled into a series of small evolutions now that they are on the top spot with Konami’s PES series languishing in a puddle of its own tears.
I get to use my knowledge of football and tactics without having to exert any effort and, as far as this genre goes, it doesn’t usually get much better than EA’s FIFA series which, in recent years, has adopted the approach of shoving as much extraneous shit in there as possible and letting you deal with it.įans of the series will have already bought this and will be on GameFAQs trolling the PES threads, but us normal folks just need to know if this is worth picking up. That’s why these football simulation-o-trons appeal to me. If football separates the men from the boys, I barely qualify as a foetus I shoot rather less well than Dick Cheney, I run like Dawn French approaching a lettuce and, invariably, any attempt to bring down and control a football sees me on the floor trying to catch my breath which, by then, is covered in piss. Actually, more like the left feet from that fucking Daniel Day Lewis film. Unfortunately I was cursed with two left feet. The passing, the skills, the moments of brilliance. I particularly hate Chelsea so much that I might actually die from it one day.
I hate Sky Sports, men who wear football shirts and people who hold their arms out and go ‘wahhhh’ when someone misses. I love my team, even when they lose (which is more often than not) but I hate all football fans and all other teams.
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