How EA could make Fifa 2005 an enjoyable game:
+ Realistic AI system, with computer doing different attacks during the game, exploring eventual weaknesses of the player´s defense. As for computer defensive play, it should force the player to act the same way; and therefore scoring would be challenging. However, defenders must mistake or be outpaced sometimes...
+EA, pleeeease allow us to play with realistic shooting, more ways to dribble, bicycles and full volleys (which must be very rare, as they are in reality). Claiming for this surely is not to ask too much. OTB and player walk are great, and must be kept in the game.
+Player abilities should make more difference and have clearer effects (By the way, in Portuguese version there are two Ball Controls, one standing for Dribble and the normal one...
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+More training options, specially team management and free selection of FK spots.
+The new OTB control on dead ball situations is a good idea, but scoring goals from corner kicks is waaay too easy (driven>>A>>run past defender>>20+ goals in a season with Ivan Córdoba)
+ As for Team Management, there should be a number of default tactics and options (style of play, marking...); however they shold be fully customizable, as they were in RTWC 98.
+ And talking about RTWC, the number of national teams should be increased to...170 NT´s? what an awesome pipe dream
. Anyway, the presence of Holland, Japan, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, Chile, and other respectable teams that I´ve forgotten is absoluttely essential.
+ AT LEAST Brazilian and Argentinian seasons and Libertadores cup. As for Latin American (using Brazil as sample) players database, it is better than before, but it still needs some improvement (slightly better attributes and more accurate faces).
+ Non-season UEFA / Champions Cup.
+More athmosphere. Better title celebrations, an active crowd, substitution animations... And weather effects. (By the way, saying that weather effects weren´t put into the game to save memory, like a game producer told us some time ago is nonsense.)
+ Decent menus; organized, time-saving, with less rolling bars. I played Fifa 2000 some time ago, and I´ve noticed that their menus are very clear; 11 players per page, normal-sized fonts, both league and club are changeble at Team Managent through the same screen... simply the obvious
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+ An well-done and external Creation Center (easier to import external files) BUT it need to come with the original game. Choosing the appearance every element of the face separatedly would be excellent. In my opinion, the possibility of creating female players would be welcome.
+ Even with external CC, the championship creating feature MUST be internal.
+ Carreer mode was a good idea from EA. Five years is enough (FIFA can´t be CM), but it has many serious problems; such as:
.Bug-full player / team statistics,
.the player can´t lose his job,
.passive transfer system(computer seldom buys any player),
.years pass and the Champions Cup do not change,
...and other issues. Training and transfer points system is OK; rising more or less according to your perfrmance. In order to improve balance when you team gets better, weaker teams should improve slightly (less than yours) as the time passes. As I have already said, FIFA can´t be CM; however I wonder that if the Career does not have a minimum level of depth, it´s better not to have a long five-years mode.
+Fewer bugs and less omissions. For Heaven´s sake, how can a respectable producer release a football game without replays (after the patch, mine ones crash the game; how lovely.), direct IP and support to the vast majority of gamepads. Or then a game with missing badges, an horrible statistical system, featuring fantastic Lyon vs Lyon matches, winning Italian cup and wathing the other team celebrating... I am stopping here to not bore you.
Hope that our claims get to be useful someday
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