It's the best Fifa has ever been, now with only a few missed sitters.
So here are the bits that annoyed me.
The ball physics seem a bit floaty to me. Certainly compared to Pro Evo. Shooting lacks weight and power, unless you are using a Gerard or a Kaka. Also it seems so hard to score from some angles in the box unless you make a little shift to the side first, then it becomes too easy to score.
Though the physicality of the players is a nice addition, it's far too pronounced, and far to easy for bigger players to knock even the most skilled smaller players of the ball.
Crossing is just bloody rubbish. It's so hard to put a cross where you want it and the low cross and ground cross seem to be almost randomly generated. And the players on the end of the few crosses that do go where you want tend to be a bit crap at headers.
The goalies are far too good!!
Defending seems so random and difficult, or maybe my years with Pro Evo have messed me up.
As with all football games it is far too reliant on stats. I watch League one football every week and I know that Jason Puncheon can kick a shot as hard as any premiership striker and Beckford is a top finisher. the main difference is their ability to make the right decisions under pressure. The stats in the game do not reflect this and rely on making a players abilities much lower and consequently a lot less fun to play with. To be fair this is a gripe i've had with every football game since ISS on the Playstation.
Good things.
Set pieces, direct free kicks and crossed free kicks are superb, with a level of control that makes the crossing problems even more galling.
The 360 degree control. My girlfriend says it makes the game more realistic to watch, and I'm sure it's a great thing, but it's hard to get used to it when you are used to having the leeway in the analogue control that 8 way movement gives you. I tend to be a bit ham-fisted with the subtle new controls. By the way, I'm sure that ISS on N64 had 360 degree movement, or maybe it just disguised it with leaning players.
The addition of the Jockeying and the Skilled dribble combined with the sudden stop give the game, just occasionally, the 'facing up to each other' look of real football that every other game has always lacked, and has given me the most 'Hell Yeah' moments in the game so far.
Other things.
There are a lot of subtleties to the game, and I'm sure it will become better and better with time, though keeping up with all the skill and dribbling controls when being pressed by 5 defenders is a feat of brain power I can't quite master.
So it's a really good game, with a few things it could do better. It's less annoying than the last few versions of Pro Evo, but if the creators of both could get together and pool the good things from both games, we could really be on to something.