Should I be Writing This After Only 3 Games Of FIFA07
yes ...
1. Frame rate , ok we all know about it , but what are EA going to do about it ? why should it be down to the customer to mess about with Ini or other files to try and fix this problem, someone mentioned the port from Xbox to PC has caused EA problems ... Ok fine, fix it ... Don't leave it to customers to get a work around.
2. Could be tied to the FR problem but don't think so , players walking and running animation. Its terrible, no matter if its a slow player or a fast one or in between, as an example Messi Barca. His legs and arms go faster than the speed he runs at. And that is anohter thing, even with Sprint on these players look as though they are trying to run up and wind tunnel or running on wet tar. How long have EA been working on sports games , and the size of the company yet there walking and running animation in SOCCER is terrible..
3. Ball phsyics , still not 100%! Passes still seem to glide rather than rolls , ok before you jump down my throat , yes the ball does roll , but that doesn't mean that the passes still look as though they glide. Shots , far to powerful and fast moving. How long has been FIFA been going? must be over 10years and yet they can't seem to get ball physics right.
4. AI , Keepers ... Call keeper , I hold the buttom down to charge the keeper out to try and close down the forward, Ive seen Johnny Vegas move quicker (a UK joke) one tonight against my son, I bring the keeper out to the forward who is running in a straight line toward the middle of the goal , I Call keeper and he runs off the side , not at the forward. Not only that when you call the keeper he is slow to move. Same with your other players , midfield , my highlighted player, I press and hold Call defender to auto tackle or get close. He walks or I should say takes a few steps forwards then goes into a walk inch forward motion then starts to move well after you have pressed and held the button to bring him out to the cpu player on the ball..
With all of the above the game feels slugish , doesn't look good animation wise (Ive not even once mentioned the player graphics) and ball physics and player AI slow response, the game does not feel right ...
Now to game or player graphics, unless you have a high end PC then this game is never going to look good, even then I read one post where someone with 2 GF9500's in SLI seem frame rate glitches. Do graphics matter all that much, not to me, its ball physics ,AI gameplay, and player animation. But you do want the teams to look good and the players as real as possible to give the feel your playing as that team or player..
And I think this is where EA have let themselves down again, what is the point of spending all that time and effort into depth of field , motion blur , live stadiums and all the other plastic coating sunlight beaming through the rafters of the stands, when its the gameplay ball physics and player animation and AI that need to work. EA in trying to make your PC screen look like some hollywood movie of a game of Football (sorry Soccer) have missed a sitter in football terms with what should really matter first, the game of football.. Get that right then you can think of ways to add all these next gen lighting and shader graphics.
Take it back to basics , and get the game right before trying to glame up the rest.
oh.. my PC
P4 2Ghz
80Gb Seagate HD with at least 20GB of freesspace
1Gb DDR
GF6600GT
Best I can get Frame rate wise , to lessen the FR lag is 800x600 MED. With that there is still a problem with FR not as bad when I had it at a Higher Res MED. But even on 800x600 MED players running animation as above, sometime the old keystone cop/Benny Hill funny runs ...
Its a shame , but I fell for it ! Had not got a FIFA game since 2003 .. And won't be again unless EA get there act together and rebuild this game into a football game and forget the shader and lighting and fancy movie blurs and depth of field rubbish and get a game of football laid down first ..
yes ...
1. Frame rate , ok we all know about it , but what are EA going to do about it ? why should it be down to the customer to mess about with Ini or other files to try and fix this problem, someone mentioned the port from Xbox to PC has caused EA problems ... Ok fine, fix it ... Don't leave it to customers to get a work around.
2. Could be tied to the FR problem but don't think so , players walking and running animation. Its terrible, no matter if its a slow player or a fast one or in between, as an example Messi Barca. His legs and arms go faster than the speed he runs at. And that is anohter thing, even with Sprint on these players look as though they are trying to run up and wind tunnel or running on wet tar. How long have EA been working on sports games , and the size of the company yet there walking and running animation in SOCCER is terrible..
3. Ball phsyics , still not 100%! Passes still seem to glide rather than rolls , ok before you jump down my throat , yes the ball does roll , but that doesn't mean that the passes still look as though they glide. Shots , far to powerful and fast moving. How long has been FIFA been going? must be over 10years and yet they can't seem to get ball physics right.
4. AI , Keepers ... Call keeper , I hold the buttom down to charge the keeper out to try and close down the forward, Ive seen Johnny Vegas move quicker (a UK joke) one tonight against my son, I bring the keeper out to the forward who is running in a straight line toward the middle of the goal , I Call keeper and he runs off the side , not at the forward. Not only that when you call the keeper he is slow to move. Same with your other players , midfield , my highlighted player, I press and hold Call defender to auto tackle or get close. He walks or I should say takes a few steps forwards then goes into a walk inch forward motion then starts to move well after you have pressed and held the button to bring him out to the cpu player on the ball..
With all of the above the game feels slugish , doesn't look good animation wise (Ive not even once mentioned the player graphics) and ball physics and player AI slow response, the game does not feel right ...
Now to game or player graphics, unless you have a high end PC then this game is never going to look good, even then I read one post where someone with 2 GF9500's in SLI seem frame rate glitches. Do graphics matter all that much, not to me, its ball physics ,AI gameplay, and player animation. But you do want the teams to look good and the players as real as possible to give the feel your playing as that team or player..
And I think this is where EA have let themselves down again, what is the point of spending all that time and effort into depth of field , motion blur , live stadiums and all the other plastic coating sunlight beaming through the rafters of the stands, when its the gameplay ball physics and player animation and AI that need to work. EA in trying to make your PC screen look like some hollywood movie of a game of Football (sorry Soccer) have missed a sitter in football terms with what should really matter first, the game of football.. Get that right then you can think of ways to add all these next gen lighting and shader graphics.
Take it back to basics , and get the game right before trying to glame up the rest.
oh.. my PC
P4 2Ghz
80Gb Seagate HD with at least 20GB of freesspace
1Gb DDR
GF6600GT
Best I can get Frame rate wise , to lessen the FR lag is 800x600 MED. With that there is still a problem with FR not as bad when I had it at a Higher Res MED. But even on 800x600 MED players running animation as above, sometime the old keystone cop/Benny Hill funny runs ...
Its a shame , but I fell for it ! Had not got a FIFA game since 2003 .. And won't be again unless EA get there act together and rebuild this game into a football game and forget the shader and lighting and fancy movie blurs and depth of field rubbish and get a game of football laid down first ..
on the gameplay and ball physics and the rest , then EA may as well give up now ! More than 10yrs down the line and the game still does not have the feel of a game of football.
, then moved on to Fifa 99. Then I got every Fifa untill 2005, when I got Fifa 05 and PES4. PES blew me away. It's so much better than Fifa. The next year I got 06 and uninstalled it the day I got it, went back to PES4. Then I got PES5 and it was even better. 