I caved in and bought it on the way home earlier, despite playing it the other day and not being impressed.
Not sure what to make of it.
Pros -
No more being able to play the same passing move every single time, then push through and chip the keeper and barging the defender off the ball, every single time
Something about the way the players play the ball and bring it under control just looks and feels better than before
It's not ridiculously fast
I'm liking it a LOT more than Fifa10...by this point Fifa10 had already been confined to my "shit games" pile. This one's got promise and seems more challenging than the WC game.
Cons -
The "rebuilt" career mode actually is the exact same career mode as last year except with new menu screens. Infuriating yet not at all surprising
Pro passing - Sometimes the ball goes to a completely different player to who/where you pressed to pass it, which kind of defeats the point
AI has gone a bit spastic - Some of this may just be me getting used to the game, but so far it seems; it's impossible to push forwards because your midfield and centre backs refuse to let you; counter attacks break down ala PES10 because the computer is too slow to react with supporting players; every opposing cpu team plays EXACTLY the same way; forwards just seem to stand behind their markers like Ihni binni dimi diniwiny anitaime, all the time, and if they're not standing behind their marker, they'll run until they're behind their marker
Personality+ - doesn't exist
Johnny Evans does not look like that, and never has
EA and their ripping the piss out of people - you have to pay more money to play the live season mode (why?), and, it seems you can't take the game round your mates and play it online unless you "Purchase" another online voucher? That's genuinely pathetic, even for them.
Fifa bug watch
- When I scored my players ran into the crowd to celebrate, as in, they ran around, on top of where the crowd were. This has happened twice
- United fans singing Chelsea songs
- Once in the practice arena, the goalkeeper myseriously materialised on the half way line, and stuck to my player?