I have played the game about 2 hours now. I think I have a mixed feeling about it.
First, IMO it's definetely BETTER than FIFA 2001. The pitch are more real, and when you see the game actually it feels like you see a real football match (just look at the screenshot). Gameplay is also heaps better than FIFA 2001 generally.
But I guess I've been playing too much of Winning Eleven series (AKA ISS). For those who have played it then you know that ISS doesn't look good (it's on PS for Goodness sake) but PLAYS really GREAT. It has creativity, good game physics, strategy, AI, player statistics... k, enough about ISS, back to UEFA challange
I've made a list of what Infogrames SHOULD have done to the game. Please read em carefully
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-Kudos to Infogrames on the goalie, they act like a normal person
But the players are too FAST, so I can score pretty easily. Slow down the game a little bit. Give some more 'weight' to the players movement.
-It still has that Fifa-ish lag (though not as bad as fifas), get rid of it.
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-There's this weird movement when you make a full stop, then move, it would jerk for a frame like he's into running mode?
- Get rid of that 360 degrees spin, gives me a headache. Replace it with fake kick movement or other more believable movement.
- The lob is too high. You should make it an option to have lower and faster lob (like beckham cross or something). I suggest that if you press the lob without holding the directional key, it would be high lob, if you press the lob with dir. key, it would be..err..Beckham cross (you get this right?)
-Kudos for the sensory kick for shoot AND lob (ya know, how hard the player kick the ball?), but why not on regular pass? (I've seen this implemented on FIFA 97, boy was that long time ago). It would be so much real.
- Though the passing system is heaps better than FIFA 2001, but there's still some issues.e.g, when I tried to pass the ball back, yet the players pass it forward and the people on the back would run to get it, funny stuff
Or when I'm on the edge of left wing and tried to put the ball out by passing it left (since no one is lefter than me ;P), it passed the ball right to the player near me. Hmm... This is bad. So all you have to do is press the pass key a few times and it will make sure it would be directed to your teamate (though probably not the one you excpected
K, that's about it right now. I have lots of ideas on how to create better soccer game and I know you guys here do too. Any game developers who want to make me their game conceptors feel free to contact me right here on this board. (yeah, right).
UEFA Challange is a good game and I pick it up over FIFA anyday. The only 2 good things about FIFA are the graphics and the full players/clubs copyright. While UEFA has good graphics, some of players/clubs copyright, and decent gameplay. (That's the conclusion BTW
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Ah, pretty long for the first post, hehe..
And sorry for the foul English, not my first language you see..
Ciao
