Caporegime
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- 12 Mar 2009
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I traded it in for a few different reasons. Firstly, the offline modes and the AI. Now, I did buy Fifa primarily to play online clubs, but I would have at least liked the option to play offline when nobody else is online, unfortunately EA removed that option for me by making the offline modes an absolute joke. You can play against Real Madrid or Accrington Stanley and their players will behave exactly the same, trying tricks against you, lobbing balls 40 yards which always find their man, tackling you full on with studs up and getting nothing called against them but you do the same and get sent off...
Then there's the referees, I never imagined that they could make the Fifa 10 ref any worse, but they did. The linesman is a retard, he will call offsides whether the ball even reached your man or not, the referee will call a foul against you for your opponent tackling you, I've actually been red carded when I've not even made a tackle, I've been stood in the box with the ball at my feet and the CPU has slid in, the ref has blown his whistle and inexplicably sent me off. They never let the game play on either, you get an obvious advantage and the ref will still blow the whistle and call you back all the way at the halfway line or further to take a free kick incident that happened 30 seconds ago, yet if you get fouled on the edge of their box, play on and then lose your advantage the ref just waves play on, it's totally ridiculous.
So that's the offline discussed, the retarded officials and the Accrington performing roulettes and Ronaldo chops... Then there's the online where it just gets worse to be honest. If you play head to head you WILL be matched up with players who will quit the game on a very regular basis, since they reset the stats the other day (because of a stupid bug, to go along with the long list of confirmed bugs) I had played 6 games and won 6, the reason I won 6 was not because I was good, but because I scored a late goal in each of those games and then my opponent decided it wasn't worth playing on to try and draw or win. I can understand that these types of people are around, and that I can't expect everyone to be good sports, or humble in victory and defeat, but in Fifa it just seems every single one of your opponents is a complete ****.
Take it to the online clubs mode and it's even worse. If you play as ANY you get weird lag which you don't get when controlling just a single player, so that leaves you putting the ANY role in the CPU's very incapable hands. They will press when you don't tell them to, they won't clear the ball unless you actually force them to, they will run into you, they won't pass, they'll run into the opposition even if they have to dribble 30 yards with the ball to do it, they're just a massive, massive liability and we lost the majority of our games because the CPU did something retarded at the back. The only way to combat this is to give the ANY role to a human player and then it's so laggy for them that they are just as ineffectual as the CPU.
Then there's the general way that people play Fifa, it's not realistic despite what anyone says in the Fifa 11 thread. Basically it's choose team with good wingers, pass to wing, run up wing past everyone, cross, score, repeat. There's no need to mix up play because that tactic works so well that it isn't even worth playing attractive, flowing football because it doesn't work, mainly due to the fact they fudged the passing up royally. It's just a boring, bug filled mess which Fifa have tried to make more realistic by ruining the passing and all of the flow that the game used to have. Most of the bad bugs are still in there from Fifa 10 and just for good measure they decided they didn't need to Beta test before they sent the game out to the public either, here's a list of bugs that I've experienced:
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The AI, specifically how low rated teams behave on high difficulties
The commentary is often wrong, wrong names for players
Extremely slow manager mode which often freezes
Annoying manager mode email for nothing eg(schedule change)
Closing manager mode inbox takes forever
Pass assistance on can make your passes random
Players shapeshifting during cut scenes/replays
Arena sometimes being an empty blue shell and the morphing you through the GK
Offsides called whether the player received the ball or not
Skills, as above Wycombe doing Ronaldo Chops and McGeady Spins
Micro pauses for 4 or 5 seconds which freeze the game
The random boot changes for real life players
Foul bugs where you make a tackle but you get a free kick
Crashes in the team management screen online
Unlimited money glitch in manager mode
Various voice comms issues, garbling/having to start comms during match
Never showing the right player during substitution cut scenes
Manager never subbing you in manager mode then saying you are too tired to play next match
Some players have the wrong haircut when the camera is zoomed out
Corner flag glitch where players run to corner flag and continually dance
Goalkeeper glitch where he catches the ball then falls over the line with it in his hands
No handballs online
Custom chants are way too quiet unless you use software to increase the decibels
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