Its 100% a step backwards - Id say its FIFA 11.5 at best and Im being polite.
EA have brought back overpowered chipped throughballs, reduced finesse shots (so much so that its far easier to just use the normal shot, which is curious when finesse was meant to be a more accurate placed shot when it was introduced) but its seems so much easier to score volleys or other spectactular first time shots yet players cant even control the ball normally which seems ironic. GKs seem to be worse at dealing with low driven shots...
I can pretty much 8 times out of 10 from KO pass straight to my ST and get off a shot - Ive not been able to do that since FIFA 10 and even then it was much harder. The attacking AI makes this so much easier its silly at times and shows up constantly how stupid the defending AI is - Ive not scored a goal I could truly say is because I beat the other player but more they couldnt get their defence to do what they wanted...
Its a poor game in comparison to FIFA 12, anyone who says different I dont think they know what they are on about. The way I see it is that FIFA 13 hasnt fixed any of the issues from the last one but either reintroduced ones from previous versions or just added new ones...
First touch isnt that bad, but I dont think its a useful feature, just another random event to add on top of the obvious EA scripting. The problem is that people are slowly realising that its just easier to run with the ball than to attempt to pass it until they are in shooting range...
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