Re: FIFA 16 Demo Available, Post Impressions Here
Just spent the last few hours playing and overall enjoyed it. Broke up thoughts into sections below.
General Gameplay
Fouls
Custom Tactics
FIFA 14 was an improvement over 14, and 15 improved on 14. It seems clear that 15 has improved over last year, and as it's been the last few years, it seems that it did it in ways EA didn't market or have as "back of the box" features.
So far, this looks like a promising year for FIFA in terms of gameplay.
Just spent the last few hours playing and overall enjoyed it. Broke up thoughts into sections below.
General Gameplay
- With default sliders and the "Slow" setting, it already seems a near perfect overall pace. It's basically the pace of last year on "Slow" with adjusted sliders.
- The AI is definitely harder to break down, and it seems you're far more rewarded for picking out good passes and watching for runs as opposed to putting your head down and running at the defense, or spinning and cutting back repeatedly in order to get a shot on goal. Once again, something that needed sliders to fix it last year.
- Your defenders are without question smarter and better at keeping shape and defending. It's not perfect, but it's certainly an improvement.
Fouls
- Certainly not worse than last year, and possibly even better. I saw a red card just a few minutes into the game that was certainly a red, I saw hard tackles with no card, and I saw earned yellow cards. Also saw some small nagging fouls that were called as well.
- We might be on track for more fouls overall, as I was able to see two fouls per team in one half of play—on four minute halves, that's pretty good.
- Just as in past years, don't be afraid to slide in hard and pick yourself up a few fouls and cards.
Custom Tactics
- I'm honestly not sure what to think about these as of now. They seem to be affecting some aspects of gameplay, but it's still hard to make teams play different from one another.
- It seemed that I could get a team to play long balls, but then when I tried to get Barca to play slowly with possession, they'd still hit it long. Which is good to have variety, but not when it seems so similar to the other tactic.
- One thing that might help on the full game is actually saving the tactics/team sheets as opposed to just switching them up in the middle of a game.
- There is a new option added to all players under "Instructions" and it's how aggressively the player tries to intercept the ball.
FIFA 14 was an improvement over 14, and 15 improved on 14. It seems clear that 15 has improved over last year, and as it's been the last few years, it seems that it did it in ways EA didn't market or have as "back of the box" features.
So far, this looks like a promising year for FIFA in terms of gameplay.
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