I am a big FIFA fan and think its alot better than Pro Evo, but my god online is shit sometimes. 20% of the goals I score are screamers, 30% of them are casual finishes after good team play, then something like 50% of the goals come from the defending team or the goalkeeper making a mistake e.g. punching a simple catch into the pass of the striker!

WTF is it when ur under the kosh as well, the attacking team seems to have players intercepting everything and getting the ball away seems difficuilt.  It also seems to give the attacking team the luck, for example in a 50/50, the attacking team will win it 8+ times out of 10. 

I am pretty good at FIFA, and it seems I only concede through a fault of the game, for example just now I conceded a goal, the ball was bouncing towards the goal, I sent my defender back to clear it, and instead of doing a bicycle kick or side volleying this SLOW moving ball towards the touch line, he makes a half hearted kick at it and helps it into the net, WTF like They often do this when its going for a goal kick/throwing/corner as well

I find if ur winning, the game turns in your favour alot more, you seem to intercept more, get more freekicks, your GK plays better, you win more challenges etc.  I have noticed these even when im winning, but obviously alot jmore when ur losing and everythings going against u.  Anyone else find this or is it just me?

Ich Will wrote:

OOOOOOOOO k.

Anyway, it's not better than Pro Evo at all. Shit passing, shit player movement, shit player responses, shit shooting, shit tackling...shit game. FIFA is awful. Everytime I play it I win 1-0 or draw  0-0, due to the severe lack of chances because it's so easy to defend and so hard to play nice attacking football.

lol, same.

Reedyyy wrote:

lol, same.

It's awful. If a player is in acres of space, with no-one near him I guarentee if you try to play a throughball to him, it'll go straight to the defender.

As for defending - Keep pressing X...attack stopped. The only way people score against me is the defenders taking about 2 hours to turn. I'm not even good at FIFA. I openly admit that, yet I still beat or draw with everyone online.

VanillaFace wrote:

SWOS > Rest.

I have to comment on this. I bet you wasn't an original player of SWOS on the Amiga.

Following Spyro's shoes now, eh?

gahh  i hate when they concede stupid goalss.

like when the ball is bouncing in your box and you press to boot it away but the header it like a foot behgind them to the opposite player.

Ich Will wrote:

It's awful. If a player is in acres of space, with no-one near him I guarentee if you try to play a throughball to him, it'll go straight to the defender.

As for defending - Keep pressing X...attack stopped. The only way people score against me is the defenders taking about 2 hours to turn. I'm not even good at FIFA. I openly admit that, yet I still beat or draw with everyone online.

Haha you're just used to Pro Evo where EVERY throughball gets to its destination and you can easily hoof the ball anywhere towards the goal, run onto it and score.

My biggest gripe with FIFA is the 'keeping, can be so shit at times, try bringing your 'keeper out to clear a ball and he comes out, goes back, waits for the striker to get to the ball, comes out again, oh and the offside trap, press to play an offside trap and about 10 seconds late the defenders decide to move up.

But it's still WAY more enjoyable than Pro Evo, I can actually play it for longer than 5 mins!!