
Shooting, if you’re controlling a good player, can often be unnervingly accurate.
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Even playing a long ball from one full back to the other sparks a satisfaction that almost borders on the weird. It’s a combination of factors that go into making the current FIFA feel: realistic passing animations, smooth ball physics, convincing shooting. The 360 dribbling is an addition, remember, to an already superb game of virtual football. Now you’re able to keep the ball in play with skilled thumb control, directing your player away from the defender so that momentum and speed isn’t lost by the “drag”. Before, the eight-way directional control often forced you, frustratingly, over the line, especially when being challenged by another player. Take, for example, sprinting down the wing. With it you’re able to weave out of situations that would have been impossible in previous versions of the game. Whatever the reason, it’s here now, and it’s time to rejoice, because it’s brilliant. So easy, in fact, that you might wonder what’s taken EA Canada so long. It does exactly what it says on the tin: with the left analogue stick you’re able to move your player in 360 degrees. You don’t notice it at first, but once you’ve got a few games under your belt it starts to make its presence felt.

The one revolutionary gameplay feature is the very first 360 degree dribbling system ever seen in a football video game.
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But I doubted it would be much more than a roster update with a few new bells and whistles. Adding hundreds of subtle features is all well and good, and the team has done that this year, but, I’ve been thinking, there’s no one revolutionary gameplay feature left for the team to implement that would result in a significant step up. The game engine it’s built on, one that’s put PES into the shade since the release of FIFA 07, feels at its peak. Now, 12 months on, that statement is untrue, because FIFA 10 is even better.įor a while now I’ve been wondering how EA Canada would better FIFA 09. Last year I said FIFA 09 was the best FIFA ever created.
