FIFA 2010

http://www.easportsfootball.co.uk/media/play/video/9208827

nice! shd've ran to the fans at the other end tho

any joy w/"skilled dribble" yet?

this ws good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BigVqfoD3LY

I keep playing on top level and not getting enough space to do the fancy shit, I'll probably need a few hours on the new training thing. Also, it gives you Lampard on the start screen so you don't get an easy way to practice the top level/new skills.

I did some combined stepover/Marseille roulette thing that went between two players in a way that would have been impossible on FIFA 09 though, so that's good.

The 360 control is kind of a doubled edged sword in that it seems to affect the direction of your passes in a way that can make you pick out a guy you didn't want if you're all sloppy about it, and it also makes your first touch ridiculously important because it's so easy to run it out of play or accidentally towards another defender instead of just in a brutal straight line towards goal. It feels properly like the biggest step forward in a decade just to run around with it in general though, there's none of that "this is the same game from last year" feeling outside of the presentation/cutscene aspects

it also makes your first touch ridiculously important because it's so easy to run it out of play or accidentally towards another defender instead of just in a brutal straight line towards goal

OTM. For the time being, this feels quite hard. You cannot get away with all the automatisms you acquired in previous editions

Do Brits care about these FIFA games as much as us Americans care about Madden? Do they make FIFA worse every year just like Madden, adding a bunch of useless bells and whistles?

Do they make FIFA worse every year just like Madden, adding a bunch of useless bells and whistles?

Do not want realistic Fratton Park atmosphere.

there's no FIFA challenge, if that's what you're asking

and we have no ryanmoody21, sadly

played the 10 demo for 9 or 10 games and this is definitely playable, so it's an instant improvement on 09. i think i could actually play this if i had to, although it would take a bit of getting used to. the players seem to glide on the surface and the ball still moves weird, which is a fifa hallmark, but once i got used to it i wouldn't notice. i guess the pes demo comes out next month? i am in no hurry, so i will to try that before i make any decisions, but it is good to know that fifa is at least back in consideration.

not this seriously, sadly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds-yAQ3_zzs&feature=channel_page

emmanuel adebayor boycotting fifa 2010 over rating

i take it this won't be worth getting/available on PS2

Do they make FIFA worse every year just like Madden, adding a bunch of useless bells and whistles?

For years they used to - then PES started overtaking them and getting more & more market share, so they started making it really good, just to show what they could have been doing all along.

didn't know this - in 09 (so I guess in 10) if you tap LB when looking at another player, they'll make a forward run

pes demo tomorrow

spent all last night cursing at the stupidity of the control in PES2009 legend mode. so, so frustrating.

still spent all night at it, mind.

come to the dark side (get a next gen console and an HDTV first tho obv)

by the time i've reached the dark side, light will be back in fashion.

do we have enough people here to start an ILX/FIFA league thingy?

I'm down for that and possibly for some clubs action

u r on ps3 tho, right? I think the majority of us might be on 360

no 5 star teams?

I don't know how it works this year but last year there was a screen on your leagues page which showed you who was all online at any one time from a given league

Apparently you can already upload your picture and make your guy?

Def up for doing a league, only real problem last year was that they had all this online stuff you could do but I ended up just playing it against random terrible mongs and getting frustrated.

not kidding about the HDTV. i'm still playing on a standard 21", which is "okay" with most games if i sit close enough, but managing the squad and formations in FIFA is hella hard

btw now PES claims to have 360 dribbling too. when did they think of this?

xps i'm up for a league, if i get some time to work on my skills first

hmmm, seems I'm on my own on the ps3 here...

After further play:

+ Overhead kick clearances
+ Seems more possible for good penalties to go in even if the keeper goes the right way

- Saved penalties still ridiculous one handed supersaves that go out for a throw

I stopped playing the demo cos i. I hate demos and ii. I want to savour the wait cos I'm all calvinist or protestant (or whatever faction) like that

waiting for finished video games was actually one of the major points of disagreements between the calvinists and the lutherans, ironically.

I always mix up who was into waiting and who was into torrenting in those wars

leaving a passive-aggressive note for whichever housemate didn't charge the Wii remotes:

http://www.flutterbyewings.com/nunoftheabove/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/martin-luther.jpg

:)

srsly, if u haven't already, wack the game down a difficulty notch and try playing on full manual... so good

but very hard; getting a shot on target in the arena is a herculean task

Demo still doesn't seem to be out in the US - I thought it was out today :(

too lazy to download and burn

are we talking fifa 2010 on a next generation console? i wish.

ha just heard the in-stadium tannoy announced "congratulations to jeremy x who was married in the stadium on the 11th of the month"

!!!

hahaha, I heard a mid-game "could so and so please contact a steward" announcement but couldn't make out the details.

The full manual shooting just seems masochistic and pointless - you press forward and it goes straight at the keeper, anything infinitessimally to the left or right of that and it goes well wide.

http://fifa.easports.com/enGB/_img/features/featurephotos/14-authentic-transfers.jpg

I like that their screenshot demonstrating FIFA's newfound transfer realism has Chelsea with a budget of £64 million having already spent £22 million, and Teemu Tainio playing for Man City.

The rumours and confirmed deals lists are a good idea though, and the actual figures seem a bit more realistic.

64 million should say "86 million".

why isn't this out yet

casillas going for £14m also pretty dumb

Marlon Harewood is the most £2.5 million player imaginable though, to be fair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvFyq0uXwLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcutlKrJ7lA

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmTS35fA4NU&feature=channel

i like the idea of a sweaty fifa fanboy locked in his room for hours with the pes demo trying to score a rubbish goal. the second one would obviously make the most reasonable man power off in rage, but the first and third aren't that bad at all, so if this is the worst the sweaty dude can come up with, it speaks in pes' favor

dudes - FIFA 10 feels 99.5% the same as FIFA 09. Not worth a $60 US upgrade, imo. Still a great game though. Crosses felt slightly better (sharper & more variety)?

I disagree

sweaty fifa fanboy at it again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM0SNWGi1Lc

sorry tht was flip, this is how I think it's different:

- technical players are as good as the outright fast players now; so xavi can be as effective henry; pace is far less effective.
- each goal is more important, if you score you can hold out much easier;
- animation is more realistic, huge improvement in this regard; it just makes the game far better; animation is gameplay imo
- through balls are far less effective.
- you have to mix up your game more, passes with crosses, instead of pass, and then through ball before shooting and you have to look for players in space
- ball travels quicker and at a lower trajectory when you cross or spray the ball the around
- defenders make last ditch attempts at clearances, including some nice new animations
- ball reacts more realistic in play, totally physics based gameplay
- defending is much more tactical instead of pressing all over the place
- they've including a 'jockeying' animation this time round, which makes it easier to discern when you're doing it and helps you figure out if you're doing it right
- long distance shots are worth taking on more often; long distance passing is now viable
- AI controlled players are better, they track opposition players very well, which just makes opening defenses more difficult and requires player creativity and more patient attacks
- skilled dribble is fantastic

this is just from the demo, which is a few builds behind the current build, which will probably be a few builds again behind the retail game; full game has virtual pro, free kick editor etc

game controls feels so different to me, coming from playing tonnes of 09; the 360 dribble is subtle but fantastic and the player urgency is brilliant

let me rephrase that then - as a more casual player, the games feel so similar I can't see myself spending $60 dollars for some play tweaks that could have easily been a patch. Still feel satisfied with FIFA 09 (still satisfied with Winning Eleven 8 / PES 4 tbh)