**!! Top 10 changes for FIFA 2001 !!**

[SCTW]

- More balls, orange for winter etc..
- INDOOR STADIUM! And use the indoor ball! (Green like a tennis ball, or let us choose what ball we use)
- Built in jersey editor
- I was expecting a better sound from Fifa 2000. Like some silence when u score an away goal.
- Yellows cards are not common enough
- Add Country flags on team select screen as in World Cup 98 or Fifa 98
- Make it easy for FIFA players to find each other and play against each other
- Stats on players and goalkeepers
- Commentating- the commentators are good (with the new patch,) but it needs to be more diverse and more real with the current game
- Better crowd interaction- having the crowd go against the visiting team or when the home team is bad being hard on them
- it would be better if the Uefa cup would be more dramatic by adding their theme song to it and see the player's line-up
- Ability to change keyboard/controller config
- Make better celebrations in the game. It gets boring watching the same celebrations over and over.
- Every player should have an own player's profile with statistic, nationality
- At the team select screen make it easier to select as in NHL (Pull down menus) I hate click the left and right arrows to find my team.
- It feels strange that the home fans are shouting of joy when the visiting team scores!?!?
- To make the players entrance more fancy, it would be nice to follow the players all the way from the "tunnel" or even from the dressing rooms
- There should be a bench where the substitutes can have their seats
- Refs on the side just like in Total Soccer 2000
- Let's give the players some fingers
- Have the crowd throw things on the field (or on the outside of the field)
- When a goal is scored the by the away team, there should not be as much cheering, when home team scored crowd should go nuts
- When a player scores on their own goal, crowd should boo LOTS if it is home team, cheer like crazy and some laughter if it is own goal by away team
- When a player does score own goal, make him looks more upset/embarrassed, other team players should be upset, show coach yelling at him from the sidelines
- In real soccer when a player misses the net, or is chased offside, or the ball goes out because a player cannot make a pass, he usually yells at one of his own teammates
- When a team wins the World Cup (or any other cup) there are usually fireworks
- Ref writes the player's name in the book
- Why do the FIFA players have an unrealistic facial look, after looking at NHL , and Knockou Kings series it makes me wonder
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[AjAxRuLeS]

Maybye :
-a duckout
-ONLINE GAMING CABLE
-More players in a team
-Indoor stadium

 

[Atiom]

You guys should ask for more GAMEPLAY changes and forget about cosmetical changes

1) Bigger Pitch (people have been asking for it since FIFA98, also the bigger pitch would make the game play more realistic and harder to score goals, since it would be more difficult to get from on end of the pitch to the other)

2) PowerBar (enough said, every great football game has to have a way to controll the distance of shots and cross, play ISSS and you will know why this is a must)

3) Better AI (enough said)

4) Make individual kits for each team (not that random thing of colors and stripes, theres plenty of space in the FIFA99 for that, they just have been to ****ing lazy)

5) Better ball physics ( In all fifas the ball seems to have a scripted path, I want to have more controll over it)

6) Better Referee calls ( every tackle from behind should be a foul like in a real game, the referees seems to random in FIFA2k, you never know if he will call the foul)

7) More controll over the tackle ( that would end player hiting the tackle butto like crazy, you should have to be aiming for the tackle)

8) Better gfx (its time to change the engine, give us 32bit textures and colors. And make better drivers for 3d3 and Glide)

9) MAke a less buggy game ( Fifa99&2K have been buggy as hell, FIFA99 dint even play more then 3 matches before crashing)

10) Good damnit FOCUS MORE ON GAMEPLAY.

 

[regwright]

I see a lot of complaining in this forum. I don't like the taste of spinach, so I sure as hell don't buy it when I'm going grocery shopping. If people hate the FIFA series so much,why don't buy this ISS Pro everyone is talking about?

That aside, there's nothing wrong with making contructive changes. Here's mine, keeping in consideration that a great soccer game demands two things: playability and depth of management options.

- EA needs start flexing some marketing muscle to get us the teams and leagues we long for. In my mind, the soccer world is incomplete without the Argentinian and J-Leagues. If you can't get Galatasary, whi include the Turkish league?

- Weed out the weeker sides from the International squads - Lebanon, Thailand? How about Ghana? Costa Rica? Uruguay?

- The Rest of the World section should include four or five sides from each continent i.e. (Joe Public (Costa Rica) Tigres, Nexaca (Mexico) Colo Colo (Chile) Aussie squads, African and Arabic clubs. This would provide more options for the Transfer market and could make way for the creation of a World Club championship.

- More stadium/fan realism. Flares, flags, toilet paper strewn at corner flags .. hostile away crowds ... stadiums half filled for suffering teams, battered pitches for second division teams.

- Try and pool commentary from FIFA 2000 and EURO 2000 to ensure the announcer uses all players first names. It would be great if keeper names were available. Realistic in-game commentary could be built around this. i.e. "And Barthez tips it over the bar" or "Recoba is in the glear" ... "McManaman, shielding the ball"

- Work hard to establish a difference between quality and mediocre sides

- Fights, extensive suspensions and injuries

GAMEPLAY

- scrap 360 move in favour of nutmeg, stepover, etc.

- increase variables around the net ... lob shot goals, botched catch attempts by keeper, more long goals ... in summary: by your third season, your goals should not all look identical. New and inventive ways to score, more intelligent player movement off the ball ... AI increased so computer makes strategic substitutions

- More realistic scoring races - too easy to win scoring title right now

- Internationals lost for duty

- Tougher transfer system - trades are rejected - offers made for your players - loan players become available - international players available

- all-star squad named at year's end, highlight reel for each game, post around the league scores with scorer during game.

In all, I love this game, and think it is a strong foundation on which to build a thing of beauty.

 

[Atiom]

Kid Im not buying FIFA2001 if it comes out with the same arcade gameplay of FIFA2000. I just wish Konami would release ISS for the PC.

 

[V|PeR]

Make the gameplay alot more like FIFA 99. I still play it over that piece of shit called FIFA 2000!

 

[cantonnas_leftnut]

nice list there landis. I agree with everything you have on it, lets hope someone from EA SPORTS come across it too.

I would like to add and build on a few more issues;

1) Smarter AI not only from the opposing team but from your own team mates, an examples would be passing it back to your goalkeeper in danger situations and having him automaticaly boot it away to saftey and team mates (say gifted players) getting in better off the ball positions acording to there skill rating and talent. Also, i have noticed that when you have your last defender running for the ball followed closley by an opossing player (human opponent only), your defender gets to the ball and it is almost faited that he will loose the ball leaving an easy open running and sidestep towards goal. (hence the pass back and boot to the goalie option i was after before i guess).

2) Although goals from corners have improved alot since the days of FIFA 99 (remember that low cross to the bottom corner almost always resulted in a goal). I still get frustrated when the computer seems at times (especially when its loosing) to get back a goal or two threw headers that seem to be totaly undefendable no matter how well timed and suttle the tap for a defensive header. I would like to see this defended easier, or at least make crosses (not only from corners and freekicks but from within open play) not always find there target, a stray cross now and then is all im asking for people. This could also apply to shots at goal (though now a days you do see it fly over or away from goal - but not enough ;O )

3). Last of all.. i am getting nostalgic now but i would love to see the moves return from fifa 99. the dive, the twirls. The days when you actually had to put some effort into pulling of a good move. Also, are we ever going to see an indoor game return to the series? like you had in an early fifa title (96/7??) I think it would be a nice change for when your friends come over plus it could be interesting with all the advancments youve made to the game since then.


Ok im done. nice forum;P, cyas later

 

[Beatie]

If EA just work on a few major things,
and go futher from there, then could make a exelent game...

1) Make the pitch a lot bigger
2) Return the special moves from Fifa 99

Bigger pitch, means harder to score, so results shall be more realistic.

The missing of the special moves, was the reason that I turn back to Fifa 99!

For the rest where a few very nice sugestions at this topic! If EA Just read this...

 

[FIFAKING]

The danger in all these wishes is that we lose the quality of game play. I started off with FIFA, and have brought every single release with the hope that the game play would changed. One thing is true and that is the level of difficulty, I find that even World class, Fastest is still a push over. Please EA if your listen make the game play top class and make world class level actually hard.

 

[stuie2k]

I think all the ideas are suberb in this post but the one that stand out to me is INTERNET PLAY. The fifa games are far to predictable and way to easy to win. Playin against each other will make it more of a challange. Or do EA pefer to wait as long as possible to squeeze more cash out of us?

 

[Cantona]

Everybody have great suggestions for the game, but keep in mind
that those guys at EA have to make a living
out of this game. It means they have to leave
room for improvement for Fifa2002. If they
were putting all your suggestions in this game(which I am sure they can), they will be out of job next year. This is a business.