No, sorry, but i hate this game. I try to play it and convince myself that i suck at the game but i just can't take it anymore.
- I don't feel i control my team. I really don't. Most of the time they just run out of reach or the stay still where they are useless. The reactions are too slow and sometimes it takes way too much time to do the action i command trough the controller.
- The defense system is like 30% useful. When i start tackling on a player, it's not that i retrieve the ball, it's more that the other player loses it. It may sound similar, but the second option means that even if the player loses it, there is always another from his team to get it back behind him. And when i do a sliding tackle, the ball ALWAYS goes to someone of the other team… or outside the field. When the ball bounces, it always ends up in the CPU's team.
- It did bothered me that this review showed clips on amateur mode, since in professional, world class and legendary, it's a whole different(and frustrating) experience.
- It's weird that sometimes they say that the game is more realistic. I have my reasons to believe otherwise and why it's bad for it to be realistic. First, the passing system has become waaaay too precise. There is a big difference between some passes that can either work ok or ruin your whole plan because the player passed the ball to someone you never intended. It happens way too often.
Second, the CPU's teams are the most clean and foul-less teams ever. Sometimes they can make your player fall on a penalty and it's never a foul. Other times you barely touch them or clearly touched the ball but the system detects it as a penalty and for some reason, sometimes a glitch in the replay doesn't let make take a closer look, so i think to myself that the computer just gave itself a goal. It has happened a few times.
Third, i don't want these football games to be too real. I'm from Peru and i know my national team sucks but i don't want this game to make me remember that. I want to be able to qualify to the world cup without restarting the same match over and over and with it being a fun experience more than a frustrating one. It's supposed to be hard, yes but as a game, it's supposed to help me escape from reality for a few minutes. I love the challenge but i hate that i'm not able to enjoy it not because i don't know how to play the game, but because the game doesn't help me understand how to play it. I sometimes think some passes work but they never do. Sometimes, the CPU's player just runs and no matter how hard i tackled him or how many players are around him, he still scores. And no, that player doesn't need to be Ronaldo or Messi, it can be anyone from any team. It's infuriating because the CPU is realistic for it's own advantage but not for your gaming experience.
And yes, you can go and tell me i just suck, but really, these football games need to be improved into a fun and challenging idea, not a "your country sucks, better play with the same teams over and over" one. We love football, i love football so that's why i get these games from time to time, but each year, they make me regret it.
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