Just played a few games and as I expected its awfully the same and the new features are typical FIFA trademark gimmicks.
First touch - really inconsistent in the way it works and unrealistics, for example I passed a simple nicely weighted ball to my left back who was in space with no opposition players around and he had the touch of a rapist and just fumbled the ball out of play, totally bizarre. Then theres the fact that the first touch seems to work in favor of the opposition, many times the cpu opposition would control the ball badly but the ball would drift into space opposite of where my player is and he would just run with the ball in space and attack, only once did the cpu's touch let him down and allowed me to get the ball back. It's gimmick like the impact engine.
Intelligent AI - or whatever they call it where your CPU players are meant to make clever forward runs into space etc, not once did they players do any meaningful runs, many a times I would get the ball in midfield waiting to spray it to the wingers, but none of them run or look for space, they just stand or jog statically, the only player who would run is one of the forwards and a totally useless run it was, all they do is run in a straight line in the same position from slightly deep. Friggin useless.
I noticed no other significant differences to FIFA 12 in gameplay, the graphics in 13 are very blurry and odd too. Straight after I played the demo I went and played PES 13 Demo 1 and my is it so much better, the AI intellgence in PES is miles ahead the CPU players have actual intelligence where they make various different runs and movements, and the game is so much more dynamic and fun, shame the defending side is so poop or maybe I'm just crap at it.
To sum for me its the same old FIFA tripe, and they will continue to make such rubbish as the blind sheeps flock to buy them being fooled by the bogus marketing, so long as people buy them EA will never make any real improvements to it and just con people with gimmicks. But I blame PES for being so crap over the years for this.
First touch - really inconsistent in the way it works and unrealistics, for example I passed a simple nicely weighted ball to my left back who was in space with no opposition players around and he had the touch of a rapist and just fumbled the ball out of play, totally bizarre. Then theres the fact that the first touch seems to work in favor of the opposition, many times the cpu opposition would control the ball badly but the ball would drift into space opposite of where my player is and he would just run with the ball in space and attack, only once did the cpu's touch let him down and allowed me to get the ball back. It's gimmick like the impact engine.
Intelligent AI - or whatever they call it where your CPU players are meant to make clever forward runs into space etc, not once did they players do any meaningful runs, many a times I would get the ball in midfield waiting to spray it to the wingers, but none of them run or look for space, they just stand or jog statically, the only player who would run is one of the forwards and a totally useless run it was, all they do is run in a straight line in the same position from slightly deep. Friggin useless.
I noticed no other significant differences to FIFA 12 in gameplay, the graphics in 13 are very blurry and odd too. Straight after I played the demo I went and played PES 13 Demo 1 and my is it so much better, the AI intellgence in PES is miles ahead the CPU players have actual intelligence where they make various different runs and movements, and the game is so much more dynamic and fun, shame the defending side is so poop or maybe I'm just crap at it.
To sum for me its the same old FIFA tripe, and they will continue to make such rubbish as the blind sheeps flock to buy them being fooled by the bogus marketing, so long as people buy them EA will never make any real improvements to it and just con people with gimmicks. But I blame PES for being so crap over the years for this.
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