anthony1975uk
Club Supporter
Right lets get the first thing out of the way. I Love Winning Eleven or PES as its called in the UK, and i have been happily playing WE8 since its japanese release date and its awesome, but every year i do look forward with hope for EA's offering as im happy to have an abundance of footy titles to play.
My thoughts on 05 are this - i think Danny Isaac should take a step back or step down, he hasnt managed to nail the gameplay yet and im not sure he ever will. When you base a Football game around marketing features your on to a loser - as most of your development time is taken up on the gimmicks, for instance the first touch system - which works really well mind and is a great addition over 04's effort - should be in the game as standard, its so fundemental to the game, yet its taken them how many versions to implement?
After a day or two of solid play the trouble with fifa is it loses its appeal alltwo quickly, its a game designed to look good but it doesnt allow yourself to express yourself on the pitch. I scored a wonderful goal with Vieri of Inter - i did a little dummy shot then curled it beyond the keeper - but it didnt feel like i had done it. Isaac and his boys have now taken the backward step of scripting some shots in the box and just outside - you can spot this by the way the shots curl around the keeper and its very disappointing.
The fifa team still also hasnt got the mechanics right for team play, you have no freedom of passing and the players seem a little rigid also the most annoying factor is your back four and midfield because they dont move in tandem - they never support the attack and theres hardly anyone in the box. Which brinks me to corners and freekicks, the freekicks are ok except for wehn you get a freekick by the corner flag and the only option available is to shoot which is ridiculous. The corners are terrible because you cant fire in a corner and attack the ball, your three options allow little maneouvering and in fact the opposition keeper claims it the majority of the time.
The crossing model has been tweaked again - i thought they had began to sort this in euro 2004 where on many occasions you could whip in a cross but that seems to have been eliminated for a more lobbed up and down cross - double tapping the cross never beats the first man.
There are plus points though, liscenses are thee, the graphics are quite good, the stadiums are nice too, but the tactics need an overhaul theres no scope for positioning, man marking or compiling your own formations.
So to be fair fifa 05 is fifa 04 with tacked on bits which to me is a year of wasted opportunity by ea again - they need to pull the development out of North America - sorry guys its just not your main sport and it shows, its too pretty to play, theres no grit - which is probably why Madden and co do so well as they are their national sports, give it to a european developer.
Winning eleven 8/Pes 4 is the game of complete choice,you guys who love fifa - dont be scared of picking up pes its much much better than pes 3 which incidentally i never liked, try it and you will love it.
cheers
Ant
My thoughts on 05 are this - i think Danny Isaac should take a step back or step down, he hasnt managed to nail the gameplay yet and im not sure he ever will. When you base a Football game around marketing features your on to a loser - as most of your development time is taken up on the gimmicks, for instance the first touch system - which works really well mind and is a great addition over 04's effort - should be in the game as standard, its so fundemental to the game, yet its taken them how many versions to implement?
After a day or two of solid play the trouble with fifa is it loses its appeal alltwo quickly, its a game designed to look good but it doesnt allow yourself to express yourself on the pitch. I scored a wonderful goal with Vieri of Inter - i did a little dummy shot then curled it beyond the keeper - but it didnt feel like i had done it. Isaac and his boys have now taken the backward step of scripting some shots in the box and just outside - you can spot this by the way the shots curl around the keeper and its very disappointing.
The fifa team still also hasnt got the mechanics right for team play, you have no freedom of passing and the players seem a little rigid also the most annoying factor is your back four and midfield because they dont move in tandem - they never support the attack and theres hardly anyone in the box. Which brinks me to corners and freekicks, the freekicks are ok except for wehn you get a freekick by the corner flag and the only option available is to shoot which is ridiculous. The corners are terrible because you cant fire in a corner and attack the ball, your three options allow little maneouvering and in fact the opposition keeper claims it the majority of the time.
The crossing model has been tweaked again - i thought they had began to sort this in euro 2004 where on many occasions you could whip in a cross but that seems to have been eliminated for a more lobbed up and down cross - double tapping the cross never beats the first man.
There are plus points though, liscenses are thee, the graphics are quite good, the stadiums are nice too, but the tactics need an overhaul theres no scope for positioning, man marking or compiling your own formations.
So to be fair fifa 05 is fifa 04 with tacked on bits which to me is a year of wasted opportunity by ea again - they need to pull the development out of North America - sorry guys its just not your main sport and it shows, its too pretty to play, theres no grit - which is probably why Madden and co do so well as they are their national sports, give it to a european developer.
Winning eleven 8/Pes 4 is the game of complete choice,you guys who love fifa - dont be scared of picking up pes its much much better than pes 3 which incidentally i never liked, try it and you will love it.
cheers
Ant
