FIFA 08 Feedback Survey

[Omni]

Hey all,

We've put together a survey to give you all the opportunity to feedback your thoughts and opinions of FIFA 08. You can find the survery here!

[Baker011]

Thanks so much to those of you who have already taken part in this. For those that havent, please do as it would be great to get your thoughts and input!

[lilnyballer]

Hey EA.. please add bosnia-herzegovina to Fifa 09..thanks Over all fifa 08 is good.. here is the link to my poll..

Fifa 08 Adding Bosnia and Herzegovina

[Hello12344]

Hi ... Ive Found A Bug In Fifa 08 That Causes My Players To Disapear ... Like Jordi Codina Of Real Madrid ... I Cant Choose Him To Be Put In The Squad ... He Just disapears From The Whole Game :S

And Why Isent Real Madrids Stadium On There ... I Cant Find It Anywhere ...

And Yes Im A Real Madrid Fan haha ..

[Jack-i-shot]

put rainy day matches back in

[BrianBscotty]

Hi there. I took the survey a while ago and tried to be as indepth as I could but would like to add more and the survey is now closed. So here goes. I would really like to bring up the fact that Manager mode really needs work in a few areas. First, the Ai for management decision from the CPU. It never tries to bring out a lineup that isn't exausted after the first 10 matches. I have to sub guys out for certain matches to keep my energy levels up. The CPU sends out its regulars which have next to no energy. Which brings me to my next point. It reaaly doesn't matter because fatigued players aren't really any worse than rested players. So my rested squad has no clear advantage over their tired squad. Also I've noticed that the CPU management AI doesn't seem to buy upgrades as I do. Their players don't seem to be able to significantly improve or get worse. They just finally retire.

Also, big concern. I sell Christiano Ronaldo to Cardiff. I play them in the FA semis two matches later and I'm like "oops, now I've done it." Of course they don't play him until the 85 minute after I'm winning 5-0 and then he's brought in as a FB. huh? And they paid 180,000,000 for him. To sit on the bench? Same with Tevez to Arsenal. The AI did start him the next season as a ST. But you'd think that the CPU could adjust lineups to get a difference-maker like either one of them within a match or two. Please fix for 09.

And back to the AI. Match management is pretty bad. Like I said before, bad subs at the wrong time, no formation changes or noticable tactical changes to make the game more challenging. I'm not really on online gamer. I'm a MM kinda guy. Please begin to have a CPU manager that is the virtual equivalent of a Wenger or Rafi or Sir Alex. And please make such critical strategic things as fitness management a priority. And have the Chelsea and Arsenals spend their funds on improving players, buying a fitness upgrade and stadium upgrades.

Really, for the most part, I'm totally ingrossed in the game. Best 60 bucks I ever spent on a game. It's just that these things grate on the nerves. And the roster guys need to rate guys so that they play like their real-life counterparts out of the box. It took me 3 seasons of upgrading myself to create a squad that resembles the "real" ManU. I can see alot of guys being frustrated with this game, especially onine with the default rosters. Thats why I think the "Barcelona" syndrome happens. Only the highest class squads play with anything resembling fluidity and controllablity.

[smeltzerinho]

what's a 'survery'?


and it says it's closed

[StevoAVFC]

It's closed

My idea anyway was this;

Be a Pro Lobby
Let the host have more options and control over the game. Theres nothing worse than someone having to have gone AFK(controller) and everyone sits there waiting. So maybe a kick option when a player has been idle for 1 or 2 minutes.

Be a Pro Ingame
When someone goes AFK(controller) the player they are controlling becomes useless and will just stand there, could there be a way to let the AI take over that person after they have been idle for 5-10 seconds. When the person returns and presses a button or moves direction the player switches back to human.

Be a Pro Pauses
With possible 7vs7 10vs10 coming? Its going to get alot more stop/start with everyone pausing. I dont know any possible solutions but if anyone does bring it to the table.

[TheGavsters360]

how about only letting captains pause the game. If any team member needs a pause they could request it.

Also how about some more control on the players. It needs to be tighter and more responsive and they need to stop running about like they are on ice skates. Turns and stopping sometimes feels akward

[chillout24]

I have been playing this game for a long time...and here's all or a lot of the things I found wrong with it that should be fixed. I play mainly online games with other people and I play with the best teams (usually Barcelona or sometimes Manchester United) so the skill of my players should let them be able to do everything well, which it often does not.

1. There is often a terrible delay between when you press something like a skill move or a pass or a shot and when it actually happens. You will press a button and nothing will happen for 3 seconds and the defense will steal it. This is extremely frustrating.

2. The skill moves often do not happen even if your player is Ronaldinho or C. Ronaldo for examples (great dribblers) at a full bar of stamina/turbo and has not done any moves previously, and you press the buttons perfectly. I will press something and the player simply will not do anything even though I am certain I press it correctly and defense will steal it. Sometimes I will be sprinting and be sure to slow down to a regular run to press the buttons, and sometimes will not be sprinting at all and the skill move will still not happen, or will be delayed way too much and the defender will have stolen it by that point. Sometimes I will try to do a rainbow skill-move, and I will press it perfectly but there will be a delay or lag in the game so it makes it come off my back even though I am sure I pressed it perfectly.

This also happens with regular dribbling- sometimes I will press a button to cut the ball back or pulalalala a certain way and the game will either wait too long, make it in the wrong direction to what I actually pressed, or many times will make it not happen at all. These skill move/dribbling issues are particularly bad in the Online Be a Pro games where it seems to take forever (if at all) for a skill move or dribble move to happen.

3. The players will often play completely stupidly. If a ball is played directly in front of a player they will often stop running or turn around and go back the way they came in the opposite direction of the ball. For example sometimes a shot or pass will be deflected, and there will be a player right next to it and he will not go to it, and you also cannot control him if you press the change player button because for some reason the game will just not let you change to him. Often another player who is further away will run towards the ball but of course not get there in time. Or sometimes you will play a through-ball in the air over the defender's heads and your player will be clear towards the goal, and the game will make the player you are aiming for do these "side-steps" kind of running which slows him down and causes him to not be able to break through as he easily could and makes the defenders a lot likelier to catch up to him and steal the ball. I see no reason for that to occur, again it's just a player acting stupidly.

4. "Through-balls" are awful. They hardly ever work because the game almost always tries to play the ball through a defender who of course will stop the balll 99% of the time. Even when a defender is not directly in the way, the through-balls seem to be set to go to a certain destination, and if your player could easily get there earlier the game makes the player wait until the ball gets to that destination by which time a defender running towards the ball has already caught up to intercept the ball . As I mentioned with “air” through balls the same things happen with the ball being played to a defender, but also if you do happen to play a good ball over the defender’s heads and out in the open where your player can easily get to it if he continues to sprint, the player will often uncontrollably slow down and/or do the slow “side-steps” running which the game forces him to do, even if you continue to hold the sprint button (again an example of a player acting stupidly) and it still makes the ball go to that destination, which again often gives the defender all the time in the world to kick it away. The game should make through balls go past defenders like Pro Evolution Soccer and the way players play balls in real life, and shouldn’t force your players to slow down/do “side-step” running when they begin to approach the ball.

5. Regular (non-through-ball or lob) passing is often very inaccurate. You will be certain to press in the direction of a particular player, and the game will either send the ball to a different player who is not in the same exact direction you pressed or often in a completely different direction, or many times will kick the ball away to no one and it will go out of bounds or get picked up by an opposing player. Instead of making the ball go to no one can't you make the ball go to the nearest player? I mean what are the chances someone would want to pass the ball to no one or pass the ball out of bounds?

6. There seem to be a lot of problems with what the referees call and doesn’t call, and also with them not playing the advantage rule when they clearly should. Sometimes I have committed fouls that I am certain were fouls, like I have slide-tackled and completely taken out a player’s feet and not touched the ball at all and the ref has continued play, without even the playing advantage icon displaying. And sometimes I have barely nudged a player, not tackled at all and the ref will call a free kick or even a penalty kick if it is inside the box. Rarely but sometimes these calls where I have barely nudged a player get me a yellow card. The most annoying thing a referee will do is that a player will foul me, and I will be still be on my feet or there will have another player right there to continue with the ball or pick up the pass so I would be clear towards the goal, and the ref will call a foul instead of playing the advantage rule. The refs do often play the advantage rule, but a lot of times they do not when they clearly should and it seems it’s always when I have the best chance to continue towards the goal.

The other thing I am not sure about since I play online games where there’s no instant replay, is the refs will often call a throw in when I am almost certain that it came off the opposite team that the ref says it did. There’s no way for me to check this without instant replay, but it has happened enough times where I am expecting to take a throw in or expecting the other team to throw it in, and it’s the opposite team who get the ball that I am pretty sure the ref has gotten it wrong a few times. This is not a huge deal as throw-ins can often go either way, but it is weird that a computer-controlled ref would get calls wrong.

7. There are problems with the way the controls are set up and the fact that what you press before you get the ball or with a previous player registers for when you actually receive the ball or get the ball with the next player. For example if you keep pressing the clear button on defense it will not only clear it with the first player who hits it, but also with the next player, who may be in a position where you could have control and do not want to clear it but rather control it and start running/passing it up the field. This could make him wildly clear or if he’s in an offensive position take a shot that is from way out and has no chance. So you just end up giving the ball back to the other team. Another problem with the controls and the registering of the inputs is that you have to hold the A button (on Xbox360) to make your player run towards the ball, but if he gets the ball unexpectedly this also makes him pass the ball as soon as he gets it. This gets extremely frustrating because you will be running to put pressure on the other team, and then if you do actually get the ball you immediately give it away by passing, often times to the other team or to no one (again I think it should not be possible or be very difficult to pass to no one since no one would likely ever intend to do that).

8. The announcers often seem to have a delay in what they say. For example, if a shot is taken at a goalie and he deflects the ball but it still goes in the announcers will say “Oh he’s denied him” and will talk about that, all the while the players are celebrating the goal. Then by the time the game is already restarted at the midfield line by the other team, only after the announcers have finished talking about the save will they finally talk about the goal way too late now. The same often happens with offsides calls when they have started talking about something else.

9. This has only happened a few times, but sometimes I will be running down the sideline towards the opposing goal, and will press the cross button quickly three times to do a fast ground-cross, and instead of crossing the ball the player will just pass the ball directly in front of him out of bounds. I am sure I never pressed the pass button, I only pressed the cross button and he wasn’t pressured by defenders so I don’t know how this could happen. It didn’t even look like he attempted to cross the ball, it was as through I pressed the pass button directly out of bounds over the other team’s end-line.

10. When playing online with other people, people who are losing and bitter often try to leave early so you don’t get maximum points for the win. Sometimes this happens after the final whistle has blown or you have just won the game on penalty kicks. The game will show your players celebrating or the match highlights will begin to show, and you will get the disconnection screen shown. By this point you have certainly won the game, can’t you make it so the game has officially ended the instant the final whistle or final penalty kick is done, so the players can’t disconnect after that point and take away from the points you earn?

[claudiobrazil]

Please!!!

Let The Next Generations Console Owners Use The Directional Buttons To Move The Players.

I Thought That At Uefa Euro It Would Be Possible But It Was Not.

In The Current Generation It Is Possible!!

Please....with This Simple Thing Your Game Will Finally Beat Pes Konami!!

Congratulations On Your Work...

And Thanks

[smeltzerinho]

5 v 5 Online

1. Make it so Captains can kick out players when they're there, but not playing (freaks!)
2. Too many pauses in the game, agree with above poster, only let captains pause the game.
3. Have private rooms, I'm sick of being told to leave a public room
4. We need tournaments, leagues etc. It's proved popular, now we need competition.

and finally..


FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WE NEED A FRIENDS LIST! That or at least let us go to our PSN menu without having to quit the game.

[x-AL-x]

Bring 5 a side matches back. Imagine 5 a side tournys and leagues, they truely would be awesome

[TonyPony]

ONLINE LEAGUE MODES - After reading complaint after complaint, i think the most important change i would like to see in fifa 09 is online league modes. The current league allows a player to join with any team and you have to check back to see who is online.

So I would like to see a manager mode mixed with Online leagues. you should be able to customise the league, ie teams, number of players, etc. So a league could have 6 teams (Barce, Man U, Liverpool, Bayern, Inter and Real Madrid), and then each player starts off with the same amount of money, and has to bid for players from other clubs or the same clubs in the league. This would make leagues so much more exciting. There should also be a lobby for online leagues where you can post feedback to the rest of the league. Players should stay injured throughtout the league, and yellow cards and red cards should cause suspensions. Iv been playing fifa since '94, havnt missed a game title, and the most fun I have had in ALL of the Fifa's, was setting up a league with myself and 16 friends on the playstation forum of South Africa. This would make fifa 10/10 for sure!!!!!!

[stanleyrel]

Since the survey is down I will post my feedback here...I can already tell you that I agree with most of chillout24s points:

First off, 08 is a massive improvement to 07, where defenders were utterly stupid (for both teams) and the difficulty was (no matter how high you set it) always very low. Some new featureshave been added, tho the current be a pro modus isnt exciting at all imo, because oyu cant play it alone. The multiplayer is just the same as in 07 and the multiplayer in 07 was a disgrace in my opinion. You had no options about people who were joining your games, people making a disconnect meant oyu would get no points for a game that you usually had won and those abuses werent fixed in the 08 version for all I know. I couldnt use the multiplayer for the most part oft the year tho, because it simply wouldnt work. Anyways that disconnect problem HAS to be addressed. It would be so easy to just say the person who disconnects first (no matter if intentional or not) loses by 5 goals to nil and the other guys wins it by five and gets all the points and tokens connected to it. Problem solved.

The gameplay is nice and simple enough but the "moves" are utterly useless. In the beginning I tried using then, figuring out they take 2 or 3 attempts for me to actually perform them and will then only work in 1 out of 3 occasions because the defender will simply knock the ball away. In my experience plain running is way more effective and way easier to perform. Please make moves easier to perform (and not make me constantley press left-right with the trick stick to make it perform the trick eventually) and more useful (not the 1 out of three and even if your successfull your usually in pretty much the same position as before).

Players are completly stupid...the closer you come to the enemy box the more ridiculus your players will behave...if you play a straightforward standart pass in the box (coming from either side of the box) you will either play the ball into the side netting, outside of the box (instead of towards the spot where already there is one plyaer waiting) or straight to the goalie. If you try a normal cross from the sidelines it will only find your player in 1 out of 6 attempts or so, no matter how skilled your player (and you yourself) is. The other times it will go out ( even if you gave a slight notch to the other side to it) or, way more frequently, straight to the goalie. IF your cross somehow finds the intendet target, he will either head it: a) horribly wide b) straight at the goalie c) so slow and powerlessly that the goalie has it without any problems at all d) not at all and instead try to volley it wich ALWAYS means he will fire it high.

The entire shooting system is described nicely, Reynolds effect and everything, but in the end, on a higher difficulty setting, it just doesnt work anymore. The only shots I ever see from my players are: a) straight at the goalie (very often) b) wide (very often, different margins, sometimes agonizingly close, other times horribly wide) c) really well placed but will be saved nonetheless in 90% of the times (rare) d) rather good and go in (very rare). The same is not true for opponents, who find the net from any distance at any given time and under any given circumstances making the game utterly frustrating. Your own plyaers can only find the enemy goalkeeper from 20 yards out while your opponent with 3 enemys in front of him will fire low and rather close to your goalkeeper who will wait for some seconds, then do a heartless dive (that even I could do better) to miss the ball by fractions so that the ball goes into the net. Sometimes opponents do spectacular shots too, failing a bit more often then the above mentioned example (that will find the net nearly all the time) making the game really weird. Sometimes, tho, your opponent will miss the goal by fractions too. In some really weird cases, your own goal keeper picks the shot up that is fired straight at him. In any case, my statistics usually allow a goal in every 1.2 shots on target while in turn I need about 9 shots on target to find the net, sometimes failing tho (15 shots 1 goal,l 6 shots 0 goals etc.).
Im playing on Pro with keeper settings at world class. I do agree that world class keepers should be difficult to ebat but the computer just breaks this. And your own keeper would be pretty much as useful if he just stood behind the net. Oh and another point: 1 on 1 situations, in reality really dangerous, will only make you score (or make me score anyways) in 1 out of 3 or close to that (reality its more like 2 out of 3) while the computer scores in 9 out of 10. What Id like to be able to is properly aim at the far post from more situations then just the one on one. Every time I try that it either ends at the corner flag (I mean what the ****?? I am 8 yards away from goal coming from one side) or straight at the keeper.

The KI is pretty stupid...I dominate the enemy completly in 90% of my games even if the computers team has 1 and a half star more then me. The computer never does any thrilling moves. The only stunning things the computer rarely makes is: a) dribbling past virtually 15 (practically just 4 or 5) of my defenders always getting the ball directly in front of his foot if a defender makes connection with the ball (wich usually he doesnt) and then the computer player usually will score from 14 yards firing very close to the GK who will (as explained a bit above) be really surprised by this show of skills and allow the ball to pass him without making any serious effort to stop it.
b) make a through pass, that will urge the marker of the intendet target of the pass to take another 5 steps forward to make the target of the pass be completly free of defenders (so only the GK to beat)
so that he will slot it in in about 90% of the times.

Injury time is ridiculus too...I have scored 2 goals and conceded 1 within officially 1 minute of stoppage time...basically (no matter how long stoppage time is announced to be (it will always be 1 minute unless thers been 2 goals scored in this half)) stoppage time lasts until 1 team plays really slow or the GK makes a long hump forward meaning stoppage time may last anotehr 15 or more virtual minutes.

Corners are ****ed up big time. If the computer gets a corner he will score in less then 1% of them, making me feel very comfortable EVERY TIME the computer gets a corner. Im doing nothing at all besides moving 1 player as close to the corner taker as possible in case it is taken short.
Your own corners are about as useless tho. Direct corners will be converted in about 3% of the times or so, indirect ones are about 3 times more efficient, not counting the much higher chance of another corner. I really dislike the fact, too, that your centerbacks will never move forward as long as you have fullbacks (wich, in reality, is the other way around) so that your super huge and strong center backs will never score goals.
Oh and by the way: The fact that you can order your GK forward is nice, but he never even got a header on goal in my life for either side. TOTALLY useless feature.

The game still is pretty easy...outside the box you can keep the ball pretty well and defending never really is too big a problem (unless the computer takes one of his 2 "special" moves). I rarely lose a game vs the computer (and if I do its nearly always a 1-0), I rarely tie a game (and if I do its either 0-0 or 1-1) I usually win with either a goal to nil or two to one. I do enjoy playing this game but the above mentioned parts make it terribly frustrating at times.

So all in all: Make crosses WAY more useable please (for the computer too, because his crosses always end up ion the arms of my GK or the head of my defenders) without makign the defenders look too stupid please (even though this probably wont work). Make headers useful please (the only time I score with headers is either into the empty net or from corners and as I mentioned, I almost never score with the head from a corner) and much better looking (not that slow, really weird looking header that it is now).
Make GKs more realistic (and your own one useful at least to a slight degree). Rework the shooting section please. 1 out of 30 goals or so from me come from long range shots and I try them rather frequently. And as mentioned before, my shots always look really bad no matter from what position. And if they do look good, they get saved still. Computer always makes good looking shots, why cant I? Make the general player intelligence better please. I could bite my teeths of in frustration everytime I see a straightforward pass utterly ****ed up. I mean even I can do better then all of my players and Im not much of a player really.

Then there are some bugs with the opwn formations, making one not being able to be selected from the team you designed it for (my created team has like 8 different formations and always the newest one cant be selected (every time I change to a different formation I cant change back (in menu) and everytime I want to change to a new one (in game) 1 is always missing), no matter how often I assign it to that team. The design gets pretty boring too. Own tournaments lack the variety, you should be able to make two legged KO tournaments without group stages, you should be able to have more options for group and KO tournaments (not only 4 or 8 teams per group etc.).

Im probably going to try PES next season and see if thats better. EA you really got some work to do in my mind.

[SirCrowmarsh]

I can't believe Chillout24, you having a laugh? You actually want the two most over rated teams in Fifa 08 to be better? Don't think so.

Team chemistry could be better done and have more effect, that way you don't need the best players but the way you use them that counts.

I don't think you should get to close to real life football and this is a game and you should be able to conquer all through clever skill and management.

I stopped playing online a long time ago as I was fed playing against Barca or Manu, I had the game from the start and never managed one half or one star game online so I stopped and I would have gave it away if it wasn't for the management mode.

I don't know if you realise this but IMO if you could sort the management mode little quirks out you would really have an unbeatable game here, you would attract a fair number of the manager sim players out there to boot.

I like the suggestion above of creating online manager mode leagues. I mean playing a game one online game as it is now surely can't compete as playing with a team your managing, right? More realistic transfers, more leagues, an international tournament, more interaction with the media and the FA, for example if you are doing well the FA could call on you to have an interview for the national job. Grounds need to be sorted, have an option if you start from a lowly club that when you upgrade the ground you can see the results, the way it is now is soul destroying. I had Morecambe in the Premier league with a level 10 ground but when at home it still showed the same ground I started with. Get rid of the cut scenes and make for smoother replays. Refs/linesman, dugouts. Ability to move players off ball more accurately. Corners need looking at, in manager mode dare I say not enough AI players get sent off? Saying that fouls need to be looked at, I hardly make any sliding tackles in mm but I regulary get booked for harmless standing tackles or even off ball. Generally manager mode has to be more engrossing without getting to stuck in statistics that just turn you off, that's why I finally gave up manager sims.

The crowd needs to better, songs, animation, louder, ETC. Here is a longshot but I would love to see the day where you have the ability to download stuff and put in the game. For example Crowd songs, grounds even club orientated menus.

Why not expand on the podcasts and have downloadable tv reports or similar like in GT5p? Talking of podcasts can we have the people who do it speak in the accent of the country intended? For example if it is a UK one can we have just UK accents. Same for all the other nations as well.

[StormyArc]

1.) When you have set the auto-switching to one houndred % manual after I cross the ball into the area (most of the time it doesn't go where I was aiming for) the ball gets cleared it wont let me use a player who could only be about 5-10 yards away it says I want to be a player who's about 20-100 yards away.

2.) In the English League you have to play a FA Cup Tie & a League Game on the same day & if I remember right if you Quf for the FA Cup 4th round & the League Cup Final you have to play 3 games in about 2-3 days.

3.) Custom Online League, you can't set it so the other players can't pick a team that has been picked by someone else, what leagues they can pick from, has to have a headset or not & you can't set the number of times each player to an odd number of times.

4.) All the teams 3rd kits should be unlocked from the start.

5.) It doesn't say when you've done a Secret Achievement

[anselmoso]

My proposals for Fifa 09:


- Make the radar customizable so that we can set the size of the players on the radar by ourselves. (Personally I think the player circles on the radar are a little too small and the radar in general is a bit indefinite) It would be optimal if we could customize the size and background colour of the whole radar, the colours of the player-circles on the radar and as their sizes.

- Include the english commentator in each (regional) version. The regional (especially german) commentators are often "limp" in comparison to the English, which we only get in the demo(s).

- Improve the german commentators. They are much to "emotionless" and "limp".

- Work on the “Pro” camera so that this experience becomes even more thrilling, which could also become the future of online-soccer. In Fifa 08 there are many situations where the camera angle is suboptimal for the current situation. I think it would also be good to include more player speaks in this mode and not only when the player is near the goal.

- Include the "Pro" camera in the online mode, especially for games with more than 2 players.

- Work on the responsiveness of the players, especially when turning directions. Right now there's still too much "chewing gum on the shoe"-effect when making a 180 degree turn. But I think that’s been worked on, already. This has also to do with the whole gameplay-topic, which should be a bit more agile. Fast reaction and response.



- Better the player animations so that there’s no “break” in animation when changing directions. I think this has to do with the topic "360 degree controls". The players should be animated completely fluid for an even more realistic soccer experience.


- Create a more realistic crowd that doesn't look that artificially.

[acgth9]

a couple things about EA and fifa 08. first off, creating an account is like pulling teeth, i had to go through many pages before anything was accomplished. make giving feedback easier plz.

about fifa 08. it is really sad when you have a love-hate relationship with your favorite game. fifa 08 is rife with inconsistency. i truly want these to be taken seriously, but i doubt they will be on this large of a forum. the first mistake made was the decision to put header and pass on the same buttons as for passing. many times one of my defenders gives away a breakaway when one on one with defender recieving a ball in the air and he decides to header it two feet away to the offense when what i wanted and what wouldve have done the job was a kick pass back to the keeper. many times during a game a player headers a ball when kicking is appropriate or vice versa. i do not see why a separate button could have been chosen for the header button to prevent such stupidity to occur. i am sure during beta testing this problem would be clear unless it was ignored. it is a blatant problem in the final version.

the second and biggest most important problem that needs attention and is the easiest to fix is the fact that when you press a button on defense, the command carries over to offense. for example, when you are holding A (on the xbox 360 version) to do a press and you get the ball but dont let go of A soon enough, the command carries over and you pass the ball away and you wonder how such lalalala is allowed to happen. the fix is simple, when ever you go from defense to offense just make fifa throw out what ever command was made before the possension change.

just fix these problems for fifa 09 and maybe you can start to change EA's reputation as being an inconsistent game creator.

[Wayts]

It's not a bid thing but i think many people will agree. If you are from England,Scotland,Wales. You should be classed as English,Scotish or Welsh. Because i find when i play a game with someone from the My Country lobby that if they are welsh or scottish they slag me off, and i assume that it is the same with some english people slagging off welsh & scotish people. So like every other country on the game, English people will have england flag etc.

[Darth Kebab]

The main thing for me is responsiveness, I felt as if the demo of Euro 2008 fixed this but the gameplay was too fast, now the full game of Euro 2008 is about the right speed but the responses are still not as they could be, taking a ball first time slows the player to the crawl where it doesnt really matter how far he was ahead of the opposition the slow touch is instantly caught up with.

Another one is the close control, it is very hard to shield a ball or turn quick as by the time the command registers the opposition can just stick a foot in, fair enough to say try a trick but footballers with quick feet do not need tricks, I also feel the buttons are badly laid out for tricks, I like the way PES dealt with this, double tap R2 or L2 to do a stepover, anything more complex would require a more complex move with the right analogue stick.

Another one for me is shot choice and choice of foot for the shot, if you watch a player like Henry his speciality is to open his body to curl a shot with his right foot, 7/10 times this will be ignored and it will choose his left foot, this goes for all players though but just used him as an example.

I would also like a see a shot placement option that is the same as PES, ie aiming up would place the ball to the keepers left if shooting from right to left, no direction would be centering the shot, and pulling down would go to the near post, this may also help with foot selection.

The one handed standing parry by the keeper has to go as well, especially when he doesnt chase the loose ball after.

It is getting better but it still requires more urgency in the responsiveness, sometimes it feels like you are dealing with ice skating tanks on the pitch.

Probably too late now for feedback but hopefully somebody agrees with some points I made.

[ellredz]

Originally Posted by EAUK_Omni

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hi all, i think this game is ace.
i must say somthing first

glory glory man united
glory glory man united
glory glory man united
and the reds go marching
on on on!.

[jimbonik]

The Manager Mode is good but...

It would be so much better if you can do a two player mode being two different teams. Please make it possible. You can do it in torniment mode but it is nowhere as good as manager mode!

[Superkavo_CFC]

be a pro season

*you should have a create a player and start from the bottom and work your way to the top


*in the shop were you buy boot, kits and exp packs the wages you get should be the money you can spend in that shop


*you can change your boots and look anytime in the season

[StormyArc]

I also think you should include non-league teams in the National Cup e.g. English F.A. Cup. & the Final of all the Cups in the country & the Playoff Finals should be held at there National Stadium & not at the home teams ground, because if you pick someone in the Englsih One or Two & defie the odds & Quf for a Cup Final you don't want to play on a small ground.

In manager mode the A.I. Managers don't rotate there squads & it also looks like they don't inprove their staff.

Can you add more week league teams e.g. Wales, N.Ireland ext. ext. & they can quf for the Champions League(EA's Version of it) & Uefa Cup(EA's Version of it) and that cup needs fixing e.g if you win the English FA Cup & League Cup & Finish in the top 5 of the Premiership & if the Runner Up of the FA Cup has also finished in the top 5 two of the teams who came up from the Championship shouldn't Quf for the Uefa Cup it Should fall to 6th & 7th place teams & 8th should be in the Inter-Toto Cup.

What also be good if you include the Fair Play League for a Uefa Cup Quf Round spot as they do in real life.

& when you create a player & buy the exp points & the arena points for the player in the football arena then when you put him in a different team he shouldn't be returned to default, it happend to me I created a player & put
him in Man U.T.D. got him upto about 67% overall then put him in Barcelona & put him from a LS to a L.A.M. he went back to 60% overall & I couldn't buy any of the exp points.