Lots of great additions in 2003, but it has removed good points from earlier versions.

1) the new free kick system. its great to be able to control spin, please DONT remove that, but make it easier to curl over the wall and make the keeper more receptive. if its on target its always a goal or if its off its sky high. make it easier to get it on target but make the keeper better at saving it. that way there is more variation
2) we wanna watch substitutions, not see a loading meter
3) headers need to be harder on goal
4) creation centre
5) atmosphere!!!atmosphere!!we dont want clean shirts and emotionless players. Utilise graphics engines my making it look like its really raining (like mgs2). puddles, mud on shirts and try and make it look like players have been playing 90 minutes of football by giving us some sweat and fatigue.
6) return the through lob to the 2002 system coz its useless in this one.
7) crowds need tweaking
8) corners are useless
9) *very important* when you take a free kick in midfield, you cant do anything. its either a sky high lob or a piddly pass. go back to icon passing for midfield set pieces. and lets see some runs. in football, players dont stand still in set pieces - they run about. set pieces near goal are great though. please do not remove the ability to control placement and spin from the analogue sticks, its class.
10) the greatest addition possible would be detailed team management. After chossing a formation, the ability to adjust the length that players run and specify zones of activity would be great. like on championship manager.

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Ive thought of a great idea for fifa 2004.

Players dont just get fatigue in football games but throught the season. For example if you use the same player for 10 games straight, then his performance will go down and he wont play as good.

So in order to have a player with high performance rest him once in a while. Maybe you could have a new stats bar which says performance which is out of 10. 1 been the lowest on performance and 10 been the highest.

Also the fitness stats bar may affect the performance bar. For example the higher the fitness bar is the less chance a player has of getting fatigue. So therefore if a player has a high fitness, he wont get fatigue quickly and his performance stats bar will stay up longer!


Oh and there should be the stadium announcer before and during the matches. He could READ OUT THE PLAYERS FOR BOTH TEAMS GREETED TO CHEERS from the crowd. Also for substitutions he should say something like "SUBSTITION FOR CHELSEA, GIANFRANCO ZOLA FOR EIDUR GUDJOHNSEN" and when a goal is scored he should say something like "GOAL FOR ARSENAL, NUMBER 14 THEIRY HENRY!!!". This would add more passion and feeling to the game so PLEASE, PLEASE put this in!

I know ive posted this in other threads as well but dont u think it would be a great idea if EA included this in fifa 2004!

raven we get what ur saying. it is a good idea and should definately be there for realism but stop posting it everywhere