Sience waiting for FIFA07 i hear the same stupid things...”the new features...new gameplay...new this...new that”. And always we wait a new game, something different than the precedent. But everytime we get something old with some new good things and some new stupid things (the goal mechanics - the first game where you put the ball under the crossbar and is not a goal, and this is against football in general, they dont even bother to test the game first before release).
I like FIFA, but not the original released version. I like it because i can change allmost everything (thanks to you guys) and after some hard work, i have something close to reality. But every year i get bored much faster because are things that i can not control and my patience has ended. Last year in june my 07 was still on my PC but after the ”great” 08 and the totally stupid 09 i dont have nothing installed right now. After 3 years i concluded just one thing: this EA departament, this EA guys, who give us the fabulous news about the next garbage, they are clueless about football. Is imposible to make a game about a sport who looks strange to you. I am from Europe, and is like i start to make a game about baseball! Is imposible to do the same mistakes every year and to add new ones. Just to repeat why i will not pay for the next FIFA releases:
-the goal mechanics
-the fantastic defence stupidity (with that stupid Charlie Chaplin collision system)
-the head passing (when the ball travels 2cm)
-the real stupid oponent goalkeeper who waits on line when i have a counter atack.
-the stupid shooting mechanics where power=altitude.
-the national team taking my best players when i have a Champions League match (but they dont even know what Champions league is)
-the tag ”stupid” mounted on every oponent player no matter what name is written on his back (the FIFA Ronaldo, Messi, Ronaldinho and others are just regular guys with no knowledge about shooting or passing and the ”special” skills are taken from another comedy show: Benny Hill).
-the crowd emotions have nothing to do with the match itself. I was winning a game with 4-0 as a visitor and at the end of the match the home crowd was very enthusiastic.
-the fault mechanism is also not real, the spinning of the ball is not real, the direction of the spinning is not real, the goalkeepers reactions are not real, the management of the club is not real, the manager objectives are not real (just promoted and the objective is the win the ligue), the passing is not real, the shooting movement of the players is not real (looks like they gonna throw the leg), the stoping of the ball is not real (Rooney dont need 6 moves to stop a ball from bouncing!) and much much more.
The key words are: STUPID and NOT REAL. Dont buy this game no more. Dont give a job to this stupid EA guys. They are living a good life because their bosses think that FIFA is a hit. Is not. Is the same garbage in different paper. They dont even bother to create an open discution about the game, about their mistakes, about what to do next year. They put a new face to Ronaldo, make the ball bounce more or less and voila! they got the job for another year with great succes. If they was interested in their jobs, the Creation Master or the other fantastic tools, a stadium builder for example, it was in the official game allready. Because a whole year, a team of programmers, EA programmers, work on this game and this is all you got? Ha! I think they put a day or two in a month working on this FIFA, between SIMS or PGA TOUR (another garbage where just the name is changed from year to year).
You want news? Just read the news from last year and thats it. Nothing different.
