This is what happens if you have release the game every year without any inspiration.
For anybody who played FIFA 07, you must avoid this game. There is no visual improvement (well, there are a few, but it's not significant enough to say it's an improvement), and made the game to look blurrier in overall. I still don't understand the intention of all these blurriness.
There were, however, a few improvement that at least makes you think that they are trying a bit harder than the NHL series department. The commentary has become a bit more mature (better than FIFA 07, which was already quite nice to my standard), sound from the crowd is still quite nice, and the game has become more challenging, as I only can score up to 3 goals on difficult settings. However, I feel this is not due to the significant improvement in AI's defense, but because of the stupid control system. I am not sure how it will be like if you use the gamepad, but for anybody using keyboard, you should now realize it's quite hard to make nice passes. If you make a good one, it will look very nice, but usually, it's very hard. Because the direction you can kick the ball with the keyboard is still quite limited if you know what I mean.
The manager mode is pretty much same, except they have introduced pre-season friendlies before the real season starts. You can choose up to four teams from any league and invite them to have a friendly match with your team. So far, I haven't seen any team rejecting my invitation so I don't know if you will ever get rejected. Also, now you can make your own practice schedule from the calender, up to 3 practices per week from defense, midfield, or attack positions. This is in some way a positive addition and a negative addition as well, because now you will have more control over your practice schedule, but also it is quite annoying to schedule the practice every single week yourself. You can choose not to have any practice, but if you do that too much, your team will lose morale and also your young talents will not improve their skill as fast as you would hope.
Overall, this is not a horrible game yet. However, if EA keeps on recycling FIFA series for another year or two, it will quickly become another failed PC series that they never seem to have any intention to fix. If you are the sports gamer who hasn't played FIFA since 2002 or something like that, I recommend you to purchase this game. For anybody who played FIFA 07, and even those who played FIFA 06, you should avoid purchasing this game. Otherwise, you will be corrupting your mouth with a handful of curse words that I cannot list here due to the clean words restrictions. =)