Fifa have cracked it this year!!
Well to put it simply YES, after the really disastorous attempt of fifa 07 on the 360 things needed to improve. But this year EA have really pulled thir thumbs from their A**** and made a great game this year that has captured the beautiful game of football (soccer) to near perfection this year. They have slowed down the pace to real football speed so it no longer has an arcadey feel and you can truely call fifa a simulator now.
Theyve introduced a new shooting system where you can strike the ball in a huge variety of ways it is not likely you will see the same goal twice here. Player likeness has been given a huge overhaul this year too; you can really see the players act like their real life counterparts now like wen you see Adebayor use his huge strides as he bowls down the pitch and Cesc Fabregas with hes little walk of confidence distributing the ball around the park with ease everything feels like real football now.
At first the game feels really tough you find that you can never break down the defence or hardly even get a shot on goal, but once youve been playing alot you master it and youl be scoring like a pro with a studied build up and a lovely finish at the end which makes you feel really proud of yourself, the new passing is great and the gamelay is just brilliant nothing wrong here some people complain that its too hard but you know a football game is better when its harder to score like a real match rather than walloping teams like 20-0; that is unrealistic.
Commentary feels great at first it is great really but after a while you notice Martin Tyler repeating things over an over again and it gets a bit annoying.
Graphics look fairly similar to 07's but look a bit more polished. The looks of some of the players still isnt very good they don't look much like there real life counterparts and they still have weird body shapes. But they do look good from a disatnce while playing in gameplay.
Menu layout is practically the same as 07s
The fouls are still a bit dissapointing where you make a 100% completely clean tackle and you get penalised for it and its just really stupid. Apart from these few problems everything else is fine.
All the leagues and temas missing from 07 on the 360 that where on the ps2 versions are back with some new additions: Czech league, Irish league, Australian league so this is great news so we no longer only have 5 leagues to choose from.
Manager mode is back being good again with proper currency being re-introduced and promotions and relegations back because all the other leagues are back.
It has loads of modes including:
- Be a pro where you control only 1 player and try to master his postion
- Tournament mode
- Create a Tournament mode - Challenge mode
- Fifa Lounge
you can also create a player once again with a new system of appearnce creation, but you cant create a team.
Stadiums are quite plentiful but it doesnt have as much as you may have liked heres a full list of them:
Allianz Arena
Anfield
BayArena
Camp Nou
Delle Alpe
Emirates
Stadio Azteca
Stadio De Las Artes
Mestalla
Vicente Calderón
HSH Nordbank Arena
Millennium Stadium
Old Trafford
Olympiastadion
Parc des Princes
San Siro
Signal Iduna Park
St James' Park
Stade de Gerland
Stade Velodrome
Stadio Olimpico
Stamford Bridge
Veltins-Arena
Wembley Stadium
plus FOUR GENERIC STADIA (for lower-league matches)