Played 10 games, here are some thoughts:
- At the risk of sounding like rhombic here, I think the change they made to the tackle engine is the greatest improvement I've seen since I started playing FIFA. It was in the demo but I didn't notice it as much until I played an online game. NO MORE DRY HUMPING UP AND DOWN THE FIELD. Instead of it being a static button, it's more like passing, for example. You have to "power" it up and when you let go, that's when the tackle is made. It takes a lot of getting use to from a defensive perspective, but it completely changes attacking online.
- to follow up on that, get used to taking away passing lanes. That's the best way to play defense this year. On ball, ur positioning is everything.
- the AI seems significantly better to play against, but the bar was so low there that I'm not willing to call that a success yet
- I mentioned this in the fut thread, but the gap in goalkeeper quality is massive. Whatever mode you play, get a good keeper. Bad ones let in everything.
- if you play online, when both players press continue or resume from the pause menu, there is a 3 second countdown before play starts. Much needed
- on the radar, each team is now either black or white, versus in the past where I believe you were ur jersey color? Which sometimes meant you had the same icon colors. A lot of people are bitching about it, but I prefer it. It takes two seconds to figure out which color you are, and then there's no confusion about it.
Enjoyed playing it this morning. It's EA though so I'm sure they'll patch in the humping tomorrow.