FIFA 09 (PS3)

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Editorial reviews

Product Description
br Step onto the pitch and play professional football your way in FIFA 09. Experience the most authentic football simulation EA Sports has delivered as you live the fantasy of playing as a professional player and customise the game to suit your style and ability.br br Powered by the third generation of the EA Sports football engine, FIFA 09 features more than 250 core gameplay additions and enhancements that deliver the most responsive, intelligent and realistic action ever for the series. Enjoy turning defenders with more controlled dribbling and ball control, snapping off precision shots with improved first-time shooting mechanics and firing beautifully timed passes with greater accuracy, placing the ball exactly where you want it.br br With new player momentum physics the speed and weight of the player determines everything from the distance of a slide tackle and the power of a header to the severity of player collisions and the height of a player's jump. Plus, players now behave according to their physical attributes with larger, stronger players dominating collisions, battles for control of the ball, and position in challenges for two player headers./p ul liPolished, Refined Gameplay: Featuring 250 additions and enhancements to core gameplay, including new animation technology that creates more responsive first-time shooting and passing, faster and more controlled dribbling, and improved trapping, and new player momentum physics that delivers realistic player collisions, authentic jostling for the ball, and more variation in tackling./li liCustom Team Tactics: Become a first-team coach with the power to tune and balance 11 tactical sliders for 140 attacking and 40 defending options (more than 50,000 combinations) so CPU players and your team perform just like the real-world team or how you think the real team should play. Save your tactics to make strategic decisions to exploit

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Manufacturer's Description
Step onto the pitch and play professional football your way in FIFA 09. Experience the most authentic football simulation EA Sports has delivered as you live the fantasy of playing as a professional player and customise the game to suit your style and ability.p Powered by the third generation of the EA Sports football engine, FIFA 09 features more than 250 core gameplay additions and enhancements that deliver the most responsive, intelligent and realistic action ever for the series. Enjoy turning defenders with more controlled dribbling and ball control, snapping off precision shots with improved first-time shooting mechanics and firing beautifully timed passes with greater accuracy, placing the ball exactly where you want it.p With new player momentum physics the speed and weight of the player determines everything from the distance of a slide tackle and the power of a header to the severity of player collisions and the height of a player's jump. Plus, players now behave according to their physical attributes with larger, stronger players dominating collisions, battles for control of the ball, and position in challenges for two player headers.p

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2009-06-30 rating:
addictive but suffers many little flaws
This is a very highly addictive game but it still has its fair share of problems that are not a big deal at first, but become very annoying the more you play to keep it simple these are the pros and cons about the game. br /Pros: br /graphics improved, gameplay slightly quicker then fifa 08, great presentation and music, Commentry good, great dribbling system, online play better then before, manager mode has more features, players make better runs, better finishing, excellent create a celebration,adidas live season means players skills updated weekly(however does not work in all tournemants), good offline session for 2 players, good new online features such as ultimate team mode, downloadable transfers pack to keep the squads up to date. be a pro improved. br / br /Cons: br /aI for the computer makes them excellent at tackling,poor collision detections, card happy refs along with some poor decision, goalkeepers can become unplayable when you are losing as they save everything, player movement is fixed so you cant run and move to the left or right slightly and instead you a 90 degree turn, Tackle system harder for the player, cant improve player ratings in edit player mode, computer can make poor substitutions, injured players perfomance is not effected by injury, can be slow at responding to commands especially online, can get laggy especially online, computer can out muscle you almost all the time and they can get pass your players without even dribbling, 99% of ur corner kicks will be cleared, free kicks almost impossible to score, shots lack power which makes it less realistic especially in penalties when you use full power and kick it straight only for the keeper to catch it and that never happens in real life and some glitches like players legs going through the defender to score the goal, computer ai fouls to much even when a player already has a yellow card. too easy to score when shooting is assisted and almost impossible to score without assistance,ai automatically do things you dont want them to do like clearing the ball out for a corner for the opposition when u could have got the goal kick, poor sim results (newcastle came second in the league when in real life they got relegated), computer becomes almost impossibe to beat when they are winning as players become better and then they become easy to beat once you score 2 goals as it can easily become 5, computer is too accurate at clearing the ball, players respond slow at times even when the ball is next to them and finally the the ref doesnt give advantage as much as he should. br / br /Conclusion: All these pros make the game highly addictive especially when you can update the transfers and online play is excellent. There are many little flaws with the game but the major flaw is the collision detection is completely wrong as players will fall over as soon as they make contact with the computer ai. However, despite this the game is highly addictive and these features give it the advantage over pro evo, i only hope that they address these issues in Fifa 10 especially the collision detection.

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review by: date: 2009-06-24 rating:
From a new footie sim player
The only reason i got this game is that it was part of a bundle, the game looks incredibly slick, great work by EA on that front. br / br /Sadly, this game, though initially fun, is a triumph of style over substance. Passing, shooting, in fact any of the staggering array of button combos available, either don't seem to work so well, or happen a good few seconds after you wanted. In the practice arena i can get the player to do all sorts of tricks - in a match i've yet to achieve anything other than a step-over. br / br /Suffice to say, if you're a Jedi knight and can glimpse two seconds into the future you'll probably like this game. The rest of us will just get fustrated. br / br /Bizarrely, the game play feels faster in the Exhibition matches than elsewhere in the game. br / br /"Be a Pro: Seasons" is apparently a new mode in the game. Pick a single player and play your position over 4 seasons. Sadly this means you'll spend a lot of your time simply staring at the screen, waiting for the ball to come, and when it does the previously mentioned sluggishness means that you'll get tackled straight away. Its virtually impossible to come away from a tackle with the ball. The AI are either rubbish (on easy) or fiendishly good (on Pro), you can play lots of matches without a single goal, if real football was like this no one would pay to watch it. br / br /The real shame is that the "Be a Pro" seems to have been included at the expense of being able to play a season controlling all 11 players on the pitch.

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review by: date: 2009-06-14 rating:
Good
this is a great game i am 14 and i have got to legendary mode really quickly

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review by: date: 2009-06-04 rating:
The Greatest Football game Ever made....
... but only if you really like FOOTBALL. br / br /If you are really into your football games, but wouldnt say you really had the patience or passion to learn the tactics of the real game, then dont buy this. br / br /There have been a few negative reviews on Amazon for this game, and they all seem to be complaining about the same thing - fun and frustration. Many people have been saying if they wanted to play football realistically, then they could just go outside. Personally, I cant really understand this criticism as you are never going to be able to play to the level the game allows you to, and i also think that criticising a game for being TOO accurate is just bizarre. br / br /There are negatives to the game. On PS3 the online is a bit hit and miss, sometimes you will go through periods of just being constantly disconnected all the time, but when it works, its great. br / br /The manager mode is also not as good as Pro Evos master league. Dont ask me why, it just doesnt give you that same feeling of building a team that you get from Pro Evo. Thats not to say that its bad though. br / br /The great thing about this game though is that it is just a total replica of the game of football. The movement of your teammates is just out of this world. Its some of the best AI ive ever seen in a game. You can play the game anyway you like. You can play long ball if you want, as long as its the RIGHT ball, but mainly you'll pass it around and thats were the game really shines. br / br /On Pro Evo, if you pass the ball forward then you cant really go backwards again. Your AI teammates just look to run nto the box rather than giving you a number of options like they do in FIFA. In FIFA you can build brilliant moves and score utterly spectacular goals, but its all a case of learning the game, having patience, and understanding how football in real life works. br / br /Most of the criticism that i've read here feels like it has come from one of the many people i've beat online in this game. I dont mean to sound big headed at all, but most people tend to get the ball to their striker as quickly as possible and just run up the pitch and shoot. The guys playing like this are just totally stuck in the past. You may still be able to do that on Pro Evo online, but not in FIFA if you're up against decent opposition. br / br /Its easy to defend against people who are just going to try and run around you all the time, just like it is in real life. the best way to score is to keep possession of the ball, build attacks and allow the AIs movement to create space. br / br /That is the beauty of this game. If you pass the ball and keep it in the opposition half of the field rather than just trying to burst thorugh the defence on your own, then your AI teammates will make intelligent runs behind the defence for you. Thats how I've managed to win quite a few games online. Its just patience. br / br /So overall, this is the greatest football simulation ever in my book. If you have an open mind about games and want to actually learn how the mechanics work, then you will get a lot out of it. Its a fantastic game, one of the best of last year and I couldnt recommend it highly enough.


review by: date: 2009-06-04 rating:
What a game!!
I've got to admit I've been a Pro Evolution Soccer player for as long as I can remember but this game really turned my head. The game exudes class and the realism, the skills, the tactics are just spot on. You can make the game as in depth as you like or just play a game, it's entirely up to you. I'd thoroughly recommend this game to anyone....especially all the die hard PES players!!

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