In my previous post, I had talked about how some tweaking of the custom tactics for the opponent teams would make this game absolutely brilliant with variety and randomness. Thanks for your overwhelming response for that idea. As a result of your support, now I'm going to suggest you some custom tactic set ups for various types of opponents. My basic assumption is that you would be playing for a top team or a champions league team.

Relegation battlers: Let's see how they normally play....

I love this game. As I get better I realise that very often the scoring happens to be from a throughball that results in on one-on-one situation, which you can finish with a finesse shot. Nowadays, it is happening too very often. This is what people complain as 'route one football' of FIFA 09. This is not a bug or a glitch. I'll explain you why this happens and I'll also suggest you a solution which would make your game lot more tactical and lateral. If you haven't experienced this one-on-one thingy,...

Guys! You might have read my long game play review of FIFA 09. Thanks for your nice feedback there. Now, I'm gonna share my experiences of some aspects of FIFA 09, which could be helpful to you. Once again, a long post!

'I love this game' is not the same as 'I'm good at this game'. I'm a decent football gamer. I'm not a great player but I'm pretty good. I play just for fun and relaxation and I don't play for ranks or points. I don't want to master this game for two reasons - one is...

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The AI is just superb. Interestingly, the AI plays like human beings now. They make mistakes, they make hard tackles, they make fouls, they get yellow cards and they even get sent off. I simply love this aspect. It gives you a chance against the AI. It makes you look for these things and exploit the AI like you would do to a human opponent. The intelligence of your fellow AI players is already controlled and improved by the custom tactics settings. The intelligence of the...

I've got my FIFA 09 and I've been playing it over the weekend. There is so much in FIFA 09 that it is not fair to review the game after just a couple of days of playing. But you don't need to play for too long to understand the game play improvements and features. So I'll review the game play aspects of FIFA 09 in this post. See, I haven't played much of Be A Pro seasons, Manager Mode or even the online games. All I've done is to play the offline exhibition games and quick custom tournaments....