eindrücke vom gestrigen test der aktuellen fassung von fifa10 in london.
der text stammt aus dem forum des fsb.
http://kitanamedia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1162
MY FIFA10 PLAYTEST AT THE EMIRATES
Right,
where to begin.....well on arriving at the stadium we were shown into a
large conference area with what must have been a dozen lcd screens
running a 6 week old code on xbox360's. Before we could enter we all
had to sign an NDA. Which is funny because i never saw anybody actually
read the thing. We all wanted to just get on and play the game. I was
with Chris Davies (FSB), Tim7 (evoweb) and mjsmith2k(evoweb). We all
headed straight for a couple of screens.
Firstly the visuals.
Now i got to be honest here and say that it did not look too
dis-similar to 09. It was
sharper, definately. An improvement, yes, but
dont anybody think that its going to look vastly superior. I was happy
but maybe deepdown i thought it would look better. You could see some
player faces looked better. Apart from Almunia who for some reason
looked even worse than in 09. But maybe these things are still to be
included in the final build.
I didnt notice anything difference
in the crowd animations either but again maybe it was the build. What
has changed was the score display. It has been given a make over and
now has the colour of the team you are playing with as its background
colour. Looked good. The lineup screen before kick off has also
improved and now displays the kits. A big improvement over 09. Dont ask
me about the nets. Im not a net fetishist but they seemed ok to me.
Ok,
so to the most important area of any footie game, the gameplay.
Ill
start with how the game felt. It flowed real nice. It definately has
slowed down. Its more tactical. Your midfied players have more time on
the ball and become more influential. I played with Arsenal several
times and Cesc was a little magician.
The close control animations are
sublime. Dragbacks, flick ons, dummies, all looked very realistic.
The
360 dribbling was evident but not dramatic in my opinion. And when
sprinting you lost the 360 degree movement which brought major
dissapointment and was brought to the attention of the EA rep that was
there. There is hope that this will change in the final build because
it really was a bit of a let down. But overall the 360 degree was very
nice. Its something that you do have to play to feel and thats why some
of these videos that have been released of late do not do it justice.
It is now possible to take people on with the dribbling. Its not easy
pro evo style but with good dribbling players it is advantageous to
try. And the animations when you skip pass people looked really neat.
I
found
shielding to be a lot better too. In 09 you would just get shoved
off the ball by a defender coming through the back of you but it felt
so much better. You can bring players into play a lot more using the
shield. Obviously the stronger players were better at it.
Tricks seem a
lot easier to pull off. I managed a couple of flick overs and it seemed
responsive. I always thought that in 09 it was easy to pull off tricks
in the arena but nigh on impossible in the actual game.
Defending
now doesnt seem locked on. It
takes more skill and accuracy to tackle
now. I liked it. There were
so many new animations where defenders
fling themselves to clear the ball or to block shots. They need to as
well because Peter Cech goes ape shit at their errors. A nice animation
had him waving his arms in anger or another i saw was him applauding
his defence. Looked cool. Through passes have been reigned in. There
still there but the defenders are more wise to it. I had a few 1v1s but
this is an area that has been worked on a lot and if shows.
Passing,
i mainly used semi but did try assisted and manual too. Semi seemed a
lot like 09 to me. Didnt really notice a major difference. It felt nice
though. Assisted was still very ping pongy and im sure this will please
the 10year olds out there. Manual, im not really the best man to ask
but MJ liked it and said it was better so id take his word for it.
Now
i come to the Shooting. YES YES YES YES AND BLOODY YES!!! This to me
was the biggest change in the whole game. It felt very very nice.
You
can now score long range shots. High and Low. In fact we was worried at
first because they seemed to be flying in too often but this seemed to
even itself out over the course of the day. I scored a few outside of
the box even. Not 30 yard rockets i admit but i was pleased with them.
I did see Tim score a 30 yard belter with i think Gerrard but i could
be wrong there. It was a great goal none the less and one that just
wouldnt have been possible in 09. You really get the feeling that
taking a chance on a long range effort will bring some reward. A very
big plus and i loved it as did most others.
Now a funny thing
we noticed with the assisted shooting. It seems to have been made less
accurate. Shots fly wide alot more, when in 09 they were like homing
missiles. I hope this stays the same for final code. Also the ball
didnt hit the post with such regularity.
Overall the gameplay
has vastly improved. It just feels better. More responsive. Less cut
scenes. Nice to see the ref running upto players and brandishing cards.
Fatigue seemed more evident too. I think players who constantly press
will get punished this year...hooray! The advantage rule seems better
too, more sensible and less annoying. Player injuries seemed to occur a
lot more, and serious injuries too resulting in substitutions having to
be made. Not sure if it was too often to be honest. The jury is out on
that one. Still id prefer too often than too sparse. One gripe i did
have was the high passes. Now we have all been told that it takes half
the time for the ball to reach the player. I could not see this. The
passes seemed very floaty still. I tried switching play many times and
just could not tell the difference from 09. But the thing is i saw this
new ball physic in effect a few times when i was watching the guys
play. so its in there. Maybe i was doing something wrong i dont know.
Im sure there is plenty of stufff i have missed and will come to me
during the course of the evening and i will add anything of importance
but gameplay is feeling very very nice guys.
All in all it was
a very nice day and we were made to feel very welcome by the EA staff
and the Arsenal staff. We were asked a fair few times about our
thoughts on the game and im sure Mr Rutter will be getting informed. We
were given a lot of play time, a lot more than we thought we were going
to get.
To sum up. Fifa10 is a treat to play. The more time
you get with it the more you will realise that. And remember that we
were only allowed access to exhibition matches. Im sure EA have some
amazing announcments to make next week. Pro will have to go a long way
to beat this.....over to you Konami.
(a big thanx to EA for allowing us few privaliged to play the game)