FIFA Soccer 10
FIFA Soccer 10
- You have complete control over your players, with the ability to assign a specific role and movement to every outfield player on your team one at a time, and then combine them for the perfect set piece.
- The first true 360 dribbling system in a soccer game gives you precise control to skillfully play spaces between defenders that previously was not possible.
- Advanced animation warping technology lets skilled players face defenders and maneuver around them with highly-responsive lateral dribbling.
- More intelligent AI with more authentic behavior. Players now avoid passes not intended for them, avoid blocking teammate shots, and throw themselves in the way of attacker’s shots in defense.
- Work on individual skills in a fully featured practice mode before stepping on the pitch. Select exactly how many attackers and defenders you want in play, and practice set pieces.
FIFA Soccer 10 gives players new levels of control and innovation to experience the beautiful game like never before. Featuring core gameplay refinements based on responsiveness and intelligence, on top of an already potent game engine, FIFA Soccer continues to set the benchmark as the most complete soccer simulation. The seventeenth overall release in Electronic Arts’ popular FIFA Soccer franchise, FIFA Soccer 10 enables gamers and soccer fans alike to enjoy the nonstop action and fun of the #1 soccer game simulation, regardless of their skill on a real or virtual pitch. With FIFA Soccer 10, players can create themselves in game, join a club and compete against gamers around the world in online competition. Game features include exte
List Price: $ 24.99
Price: $ 31.99
More Kicks Than Karate,
I know that the FIFA games tend to get a little better every year, and I always think to myself,” This year’s installment is great, but…”
Not with FIFA 10.
I’ve only played the manager mode with the team I support the most, AS Roma, but simply from that experience, what a difference in the game play. I liked last year’s addition of an actual referee pointing the flag in the direction of team possession, so of course, that made it back to FIFA 10. New additions to the FIFA game include; a full schedule for your team, including preseason friendlies with teams in your league, and with teams all over Europe; improved player likenesses, including the way indivual players move (Francesco Totti actually moves like Francesco Totti); weather changes to go with day and night games, including rain and snow; in the rain snow games, most of the players on your squad switch to longsleeves, which was a feature missing from the previous FIFAs; it’s easier for defenders to tackle and win possession, which makes the game more difficult but lends to the realistic aspects a real match; and right and left backs can actually push up the sides of the field, which allows them to score and gives more team members besides just your strikers and attacking midfielders a chance on goal.
The only problem I have with the game is the price, and the fact that I’m a full time student without the time to play the game as much as I’d like. Fully recommended to any fans of the previous games. And just think to yourself once you play it…it only gets better from here.
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|FIFA 10 Review from a non-soccer (football) fan,
I must admit up front I rarely if ever follow soccer. That being said, I have played this game far more then I have played either NCAA 10 or Madden 10. The graphics are great, and the environment of the game from the crowd sounds to the announcers make me feel like I have been watching English Premier League football my whole life. This game is very addictive, and once you get the hang of the player controls you will find yourself learning a lot about the flow of game. At first I was offside quite a bit. Now I find myself looking for that extra pass that might result in a higher percentage shot on goal. I find the AI to be pretty challenging (for me), and I have it set on the default setting. Against good teams I find my games are very close. Sometimes a team will come in against me and just kill me. I think as I play more I will learn a lot more about the who’s who in powerhouse teams.
If you are a sports game fan, I think you will like this game. Its fun to play solo or against a computer opponent (face to face). Didn’t try online yet.
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|An improvement, but many little frustrations,
Fifa 2010 is a pretty solid soccer game. Allow me to break it down some:
Decent AI:
Playing on the harder difficulty levels, the AI still makes awful decisions from time-to-time. Defenders under no pressure make awful panicky clearances, forwards make runs while keeping a defender close and between them and the ball, et cetera. That said, overall the AI has improved greatly from earlier versions, and it makes the game that much more fun.
Improved physics & 360 controls:
The high points of this game are the physics and 360 controls. As opposed to previous versions, you have very precise directional control of everything. This is also somewhat frustrating, because it greatly increases the sensitivity of everything you do. The ball movements, player movements, and player clashes seem more real than ever before. It feels much closer to real soccer than any other game I’ve played before.
Manager mode:
They made a big deal out of how improved manager mode is. Frankly, I see little difference, except simulating games takes longer, I’m guessing due to the increasing number of variables taken into account. But I still see outlandish results, but like Fifa 2008, it seems fairly reasonable a majority of the time. Of course there’s some things like salary caps going on here, but nothing makes a big difference in my opinion. I still enjoy manager mode, it’s just not a very big change from before. The one thing here that I still find frustrating, is even if you start with a 5-star team, it’s incredibly hard to transfer star players. They simply don’t want to play for you until you have many stars. But by the time you can get these manager stars, some of the star older players (e.g., Ronaldinho) have retired.
I do find some frustration with the auto-coach mode in manager mode. The idea is that auto-coach will rotate your squad based on fatigue and injuries. This is great, but it makes a lot of changes. This is annoying because I generally have 1 set of players I consider my top starers. I would like to be able to save this lineup, and quickly reset my team to that lineup for big matches. Instead, I have to redo the entire squad manually. I would turn off auto-coach, but fatigue seems to be a very big factor now, so that would be even more frustrating. Also, sometimes the auto-coach does questionable things like put a midfielder into the goalkeepers position, when the goalkeeper is fully energized and not injured.
Be A Pro:
I created my own pro player, and have been working to increase his attributes. This is a painful and annoying process–by far the most frustrating thing for me in Fifa 2010. First of all, you need to play on the harder difficulty levels to unlock accomplishments. This is fine, but it should explicitly warn you about this, especially if you’re playing a game on amateur and you navigate to the accomplishments menu. In addition, I feel like the logic to determine when you are achieving these accomplishments is dreadful. For example, consider these two accomplishments:
1. Find your team mates with 2 different crosses in a match
2. Set up 2 goals with crosses in a match
I just played a match, and unlocked accomplishment 2, but not accomplishment 1. Uh what? Other accomplishments are equally frustrating, especially the “beat x players with skill moves.” It seems you must be painfully close to the defending player when pulling off these moves, before it will credit you with beating him with a skill move. This is annoying because you can clearly throw off defenders with skill moves from further away and even the announcers comment on how you just rocked that particular defender, but you get no progress for it in the accomplishments.
Seriously, I could go on and on about the accomplishments not being picked up, it’s a very buggy detection system. Or if it’s behaving as intended, it needs to be more clear to the player about why they aren’t picking up the accomplishments.
Overall Fifa 2010 is a solid game, but I still expect more from such a high-budget production.
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