Friday, April 20, 2012

FIFA Manager 2011 is a disaster

Hello all.
FIFA Manager 2011 is a complete disaster.
Too much stuff you just don't need in a manager game, awful AI, and just not realistic at all.
But from all the bad things in this game, i have to stand out the "Team Control" feature, which made me buy FIFA 11 so i could use it and play with the team i was managing.
It is awful. I bought FIFA11 just so i could use this feature and guess what:
- Graphics suck
- Gameplay sucks even more
What happened to the team that designed TCM2004, now there's a great game.
While not using the team control feature, AI sucks as in the worst team in the league can can score 5 goals against the best team in the league with differences of up to 250 points.
The gameplay in team control mode is just sickening.
You can hardly get the ball back from the opposing team, controls don't respond well at all, i can't even tackle once or make a timely agressive tackle.
I just can´t play it period.
Does anyone at EA ever test the stuff they send out on to the market?
All of you at EA sports, in charge of the FIFA Manager 2011 project should be ashammed of yourselves.
This has got to be the worst mahager game i've ever played in my life.
Oh, and one more suggestion, TCM04 was brilliant.
You should screw with whats good already, just improve it.
I bought FIFA11 so i could use it's graphics engine to play in team control and guess what, not possible.
You should review all this and re-introduce football fusion in FIFA Manager 2012 if you want to have players happy.
2011 is a screw up year for you.
Full Team Control is just bad publicity because actually, you just can´t control anything.
The players don't do what you tell them to do and the playability sucks.|||Amen, brother!!!
I don't know if you've ever played Counter Strike, but the AI bots we're just plain stupid... they would get stuck while trying to run through walls and stuff. Same principle here - attacker is all by himself, heading towards the goal, with only the goalie to beat, but he suddenly decides to turn around and pass the ball to the guy behind him who's surrounded by 2-3 defenders. And we could go one with scenarios of the like that drive you just about MAD!!! (except when it happens to the adversary; that's when you resume breathing, all relieved of the danger)
The purpose of a real-life simulation game is to SIMULATE REALITY! This game's 3D simulation acts more like a caricature in its sense. You know you screwed up at developing a life-like a game when you notice that the 3D simulator gamplay is worse than FIFA 98; and, no offence, while FIFA 98 was awesome in its time, this ain't the 90s anymore, baby!
I have a couple of theories as to how this got so screwed up... no offence to anyone; I'm just theorizing here...
1. Everyone on the 3D simulation gameplay team was either high or drunk while working on this
2. Whoever's on that team, they don't know jack about football (soccer)
3. 3D mode was never tested by anyone before release... and neither was it after
4. The respective team is made up of amateur (maybe junior high) programmers/designers; which I highly doubt, unless we let the game speak for itself (again, I'm speaking according to the result)
5. The team working on it came from the past (maybe the early 90s or earlier), and isn't aware of the current technological advances
6. ...the list goes on...
My question is, how come EA Sports (or EA Games) never answers critical postings, but only FAQ stuff? Isn't there someone in charge of customer service/satisfaction? Isn't there supposed to be someone who supervises fan forums and picks out ideas and suggestions from their tormented clients?
If creating a good 3D simulations gameplay is so hard, why not borrow from the FIFA X team, to at least have a decent real-life-like simulation?!
I am disappointed that after all this time, nothing's been done about this... or the efforts so far exercised to fix this have either been puny or worsening.

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