FIFA Soccer 14 Review (XB1/PS4)

[BQ32]

Also to add; Your defensive line can continuously get beat by through balls because they play to high and the momentum system stalls there movement from getting back in position in time. This seems great sometimes but can be a huge problem and game killer as you become helpless on defense to the counter attack. I even set my custom tactics to 10 on pressure and customized my formation so that all backs work rate is high defense and low offense to counteract this problem yet I still helplessly get beat by long through balls and the defenders are out of position and can not catch up. Again this leads players towards continuously pressuring to get the steal and sending long through balls. Not very realistic.

I kind of resent the people saying to just stay away from online. Well I am an online ONLY player. In every sports game I play I intend on being one of the top players using realistic tactics. Some games I feel that I get there sometimes I don't, and sometimes I feel that the game does not allow you to become a top player using real life tactics. The games I consider to have the best gameplay are games that allow you to use real tactics and still dominate if the skill level is high enough. Though many think FIFA 13 was a spam fest you could dominate the game using slow build up play and a slower pace. I know this because I won division 1 using that style. In fifa 14 it is currently not possible to take a team like Barcelona and be high class by playing their style of footie. I feel like developers many times develop the game around how they intend on playing it and do not realize how the online community will attempt to exploit. If they do sniff out the online bugs and can patch it without severely altering offline AI then the game will be better for everybody. Lets hope they do and give us the great game instead of the potentially great game.

[Yeats]

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Your defensive line can continuously get beat by through balls because they play to high... I even set my custom tactics to 10 on pressure and customized my formation so that all backs work rate is high defense and low offense to counteract this problem yet I still helplessly get beat by long through balls and the defenders are out of position and can not catch up.

Pressure tactics and workrates have never helped with that issue in any version of FIFA. If you want your players to stay back, you have to adjust your team positioning sliders. It also helps to create custom formations using as many backs and defensive midfielders as possible. I created a high-defend formation with 7 backs and 3 defensive mids for example (can do that with the PC version).

I kind of resent the people saying to just stay away from online. Well I am an online ONLY player.

Don't twist things around here, you're the one who called the game terrible based on your experience playing online idiots. If you spend all your time in the sewer expect it to be overrun with vermin.

[readujt619]

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[bwright25]

Game looks great, but unfortunately game play is still dumb down online. Playing actual football is not rewarded. Just lob thru balls and all out pressure.

[Shimoda]

I Like the gameplay but i hate the cameras... We should have in the game all camera angles that we can use in the replays, for example... the las fifa that I will buy it

[wiifighter]

I just curious, any differences between X1 & PS4....

[craigbezzle]

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Will EA ever get rid of this ridiculous rubberband AI? I dominate for 85 minutes and then in the final 5, the AI becomes God. It's 2014, why does this still exist?

[Bgamer90]

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My video review of the game. Haven't played a soccer game on a console in a LONG time but I'm really enjoying FIFA 14.

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[JODYE]

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On the surface, FIFA is an enjoyable game, but then you as you get deeper, you start to see all the glaring issues and scripted sequences that really make this game no fun to play.

[jacory12]

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On the surface, FIFA is an enjoyable game, but then you as you get deeper, you start to see all the glaring issues and scripted sequences that really make this game no fun to play.

I'm debating picking this game up. Can you explain what you mean by this?

[JODYE]

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I'm debating picking this game up. Can you explain what you mean by this?

The game is scripted, like blatantly.

You'll get run outs, and all of a sudden your world class striker will just forget how to dribble a ball or trap it and it will take him 2 or 3 touches to gather himself, and the defender who you had 2 or 3 steps on will warp in front of you and steal it.

Or, you will time a perfect run, and hit someone with a perfect lead pass, and the goalie will race out, and stop you before you even have a chance to take a shot. This even happens when you are playing another human player. Defense will get beat and the goalie will go into warp mode, basically telling you that you weren't supposed to score yet.

Lofted lead passes are over powered, and you will see players speed up abnormally to get to them.

Goalies will all of sudden go into god mode and will stop anything and everything in sight, meanwhile you will see your goalie, not be able to stop a slow rolling dribbler. I dont know how many games I have somehow lost, where I would have 14-15 shots on goal and lose. I'm talking easy opportunities. Or you'll run into scenarios, where you could see 3-4 shots in a row off the various sides of the goal, and then the defense will miraculously clear it.

The AI is abysmal. Players within the box will run away from players with the ball to return to their "zone" and leave guys wide open. They don't react to balls in the air at all, and will not, until you manually control them.

I could keep going, but I'm going to tell you, wait until it is discounted if you really want to play it. Or rent it. Probably your best option.

[craigbezzle]

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I agree that the AI in this game is very frustrating...I mean after all, it is an EA Sports game

However, I have found two solutions:

1) adjust the sliders to cater towards YOUR needs so you get the best FIFA experience possible

2) after playing a career or 2 against the CPU, simply play online. You still get to play as your favorite players/teams, but I've found Human Opponents much more satisfying because when they consistently get beat, they know it's because you are simply a better player than them. When they whoop your ***, you know it's because they're super skilled and you should work on your game more.

FIFA was very frustrating to me playing against the computer. Now I play some Pro Clubs and Online Seasons with a little FUT mixed in, and it's brilliant.

[linny]

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This is one of the most frustrating games I have ever played. the scripting has ruined the game for me....I can always tell in the 60th minute if the computer is going to score in the 90th.

[MrPerfect2014]

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The PS4 Starting the new season after promotion bug has made this game unplayable. If you re not aware of this, its when you are in Manager Mode, you get promoted and the game resets your previous season to zero. Your stats all say zero games played, zero wins, ect....Not keeping track of previous season stats as a manager is kind of a major issue. If anyone has a work around please for the love of god post it

[BL8001]

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I said a lot of this stuff early when the game was released on CG in the CG thread.

A lot of people did not like hearing it.

I find the NG forum to be more level headed about what does and doesn't work in this game, and like what was posted above...in the beginning this game seems amazing but the more you play it the more you see all the unnecessary tricks the CPU ai employ. And it adds up quickly to turn you off to the game.

You can look past it, you can change sliders, you can play modes where it isn't as present but the heart of the game is the ai and it needs serious work.

I mentioned in CG how every player needs to have a halo (invisible) around them and react to the ball based on their proximity to it. A better and more active player would have a larger halo and a poorly skilled slow player would have a smaller one.

It's so infuriating when players stand and watch the ball roll by, this isn't rec league.

And the ai suffers terribly from just being plain cheaty. On amateur you can roll the CPU and all your players are like messi and all your shots are lasers. As you move up the diff level the game makes your players stupid and the ai amazing, but only amazing at having loose balls bounce their way and toe poking the ball away if you get anywhere near them, and after that happens it's like you are stuck in mud while your player fights the momentum model ea have in place and the CPU ignores it.

What this game needs is a system like forza has with drivatars. So someone like krebstar for example would be able to do the tactics but also play with say a team who likes the long ball and play that way and have that be "recorded" ai that could be uploaded and shared. Imagine what a wonderful game this would be about two weeks after release. A dozen of us could model teams after the real way they play and upload and share the team.

So I could take Dortmund and play a few matches very uptempo and pressing and share it and once you load it your Dortmund team plays that way.

If we could share and save around 100 play styles we could have an amazing game on our hands.

I mean maybe just maybe...the CPU would shoot.