FIFA 17 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[BSDShoes]

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Is it just me, or does the computer take every single corner kick short? Is anyone else noticing this?

AI most certainly lacks variety, but then again every EA sports game has that very issue.

[therizing02]

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Played a few more games this am hoping that I missed something from yesterday. Sadly, nothing has changed.

Mindless "build up" by the CPU and more of FIFA just with a new engine and some fancy marketing jargon and menus. This demo is an absolute snoozefest.

Czar said it best: "stop playing video games and start playing basketball". Unfortunately with FIFA there have been only a handful of times within the last 8-10 years where I felt like I was playing *plug in team name* and not playing a video game. No matter the package it ALWAYS feels like you're playing against the engine and not the team. No formation adjustments and the "strategy adjustments" happen when the CPU decides it's your turn or theirs to score a goal. Simply put it's just FIFA. I'm sick of the dev team, their philosophies, approach, and priorities.

I'll definitely download the EA Access trail, hoping for different results but with other great titles releasing at the same time I may wait until its a free download from the Vault.

[AnnihilusLivius]

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Really enjoyed this goal from Sterling. Dunno how to feel about some aspects of the game. The thing that annoys me most in FIFA this previous years still exists in this demo -- every damn team plays like Barcelona. 85% accuracy in passing the ball...70% possession of the ball. It pisses me off lol

[PPerfect_CJ]

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Really enjoyed this goal from Sterling. Dunno how to feel about some aspects of the game. The thing that annoys me most in FIFA this previous years still exists in this demo -- every damn team plays like Barcelona. 85% accuracy in passing the ball...70% possession of the ball. It pisses me off lol

That stripe on City is not right. Seriously, why would kits be so obviously wrong? That better be fixed for the retail copy!

[bigeastbumrush]

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I might be wrong but I think for the retail version you can play The Journey with any premiership club

You're right. I just saw Hunter on Manchester City in a pic.

This is great news. So I'll just join the worst PL team.

[Chalupajuana]

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Did a video with my impressions

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I thought the AI was solid first couple games but once I looked at defensive AI tendencies on my recordings on my ElGato I saw how bad their positioning is. Some schoolyard stuff in this video. I do like the physical play overhaul for the human player but the CPU tends to be way too passive because of it. Couple of times where they had chances to shoot or push down touchline but instead posted up a defender and layed the ball off to someone outside the box.

[talucchesi]

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I honestly feel I'm playing a different game than you all

Played 4 games on World Class and loved every single one.

Someone actually said there's no long balls but my first game I saw about 4. This game isn't revolutionary, but I think it's AT LEAST right up there with PES for different reasons.

Whatever, to each their own I guess...

[dubcity]

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Ugh, CPU ping ponging one touch passes is still there. Nothing made me rage more in 16 than the CPU stringing together 6-7 one touch laser passes, and then ending up with a shot on goal out of it. Feels scripted. I like the speed of the player movement, but the ball still moves way too fast on passes.

And whoever said the players look strangely bland on close-ups, I agree. It's like there's old-gen mixed in with frostbite, and it makes some of the players look like bad wax statutes with no detail.

[ThrowBack]

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I am happy this game has 21:9 support now but it really chugs on my PC. I can get 60 fps cut scenes and replays but gameplay is a slide show. Might just cancel my preorder and either get the Xbox One version or just mod Fifa 16 on PC.

[Velocityy]

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I've noticed the CPU defense just slowing down and letting guys go by on their runs. They don't challenge you in the box at all....they're keeping their shape, but just kind of stand there useless.

I hope that can be changed, because no defender just lets a striker go by with ease.

[winston]

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The cpu laser-guided, torpedo passes and perfect first touch are as ubiquitous as ever. Nearly every match the cpu has 95% passing accuracy. Custom tactics do nothing, as usual.

The FIFA16 demo charmed me, as did the initial release of 16, before they patched the life out of it and turned it into FIFA15. This feels like that over-patched 16 with slightly touched up gfx and one or two tweaks to the gameplay which do next to nothing to enhance the overall experience.

FIFA16 proved to me they have a great game engine, but that they can completely mess it up.....like they have done again with this demo.

I don't see any reason at all to shell out £40 for this unless the full release receives glowing praise because they've turned it back into the sim that it can be.

[BL8001]

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Something to note.

We know from EA's words that after 15 came out they split dev teams and one focused on 16 and one team started the transition to the frostbite engine in 17. They stated that 17 has been in development for 2 years.

I am feeling a lot of deja vu with 15. Which makes sense because they most likely pulled the 15 code over to 17. Speed being back, the player models lean more towards 15 than 16, fouls being more like 15 etc.

The whole game has the new frostbite "shine" on it plus whatever other AI and new feature tweaks they did. IMHO this is why the AI is behaving the way it is. It's 15 with some 16 things stuck on it with 17 things added.

It feels disjointed to me. The first thing to suffer a setback is the AI.

I just had a match as man u vs man city and they were down a goal and all they would do is just dribble around harmlessly in their own end. If I pressured them they would just hit this hopeful ball up field but they had nobody up there. I would just gather it with my RB and come back on the attack until I lost the ball and we repeated this again.

Even the announcers were getting on them about needing to abandon the dribble and play route 1 but they ignored it. Self Aware AI except not.

Somebody posted earlier that demo's before have been great and then the full game just so so. And maybe this year is opposite year.

I hope so. I would much rather have 2 great futbol games.

[xicpanad]

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I loved Fifa 16 and still go back to play it, despite some things that really piss me off completely. I learned to accept it as it was and enjoyed it that way. I didn´t think though I would have to do the same for 17. It´s diferent, it´s better in terms of pace, but the CPU reactions and team mentalities are all remembering me of fifa 15 and 16. There´s no need to spend extra money for that, and specially now that it´s so hard to resist the evolution PES has made this year. I´m pretty sure I´ll skip this one.

I understand and accept that the new engine needs some tuning to improve, so I´ll let EA alone to make those improvements, and when I feel the time is right, I´ll get back to Fifa.

PES has done the same, with a new engine, they needed some years to get back on track and finally this year they almost nailed it. I believe the next years we´ll see PES gradually coming back from his grave.

[KingTocco]

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So something I noticed from playing both the Xbox One and PS4 versions of this demo is that the PS4 demo is much more crisp. The colors are much better, the framerate seemed more consistent, and on the Xbox One version I got more of a hazy view during the cutscenes. I also noticed that the video at the end of the Journey mode game was extremely choppy on the X1 version and not on the PS4 version at all.

I was strictly X1 for this but I might switch it over to PS4 for these reasons.

[Pappy Knuckles]

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Going from 10 minute halves in the beta to 4 minutes in the beta isn't cutting it for me. I already pre-ordered, though, so so no big deal. I can wait until release to really get my fix.