FIFA 12 - A Revised Look (Continued)

6. Player Ratings

Is it me or have players' ratings steadily got more and more stingy over the course of the series? In FIFA 2003, (bearing in mind that players' ratings are out of 10 rather than 100) many players have a lot of 8s and 9s amongst their stats. In FIFA 2005, a lot of players have stats in the 80s. However in FIFA 12, most players' stats are mainly 70s and less, outside football's most well-known players. I've ended up downloading a lot of players for my teams from the Creation Centre, as they actually have some decent stats!

E.A. keep putting new teams and leagues in every year, (with the exception of FIFA 12 which had leagues TAKEN OUT!) but some are completely redundant as none of the teams have any half-decent players. The Irish League is a prime example; there's barely a player with any decent stats over 70. But the Irish League has produced a few decent players lately; like Seamus Coleman and James McClean to name two. Bottom line: E.A., just be a bit more generous when deciding on players' stats.

And what happened to finding hidden gems? Yes there are still a couple but there's no one like Matteo Brighi in FIFA 2003 or Alessandro Parisi in FIFA 2004. (Parisi had 100/100 for shot accuracy and shot power) Sure, it's not too realistic; but where do you draw the line between fun and realism? For me, one of the things I look forward to most on a new FIFA title, is looking for relatively unknown players, who have some good stats. Maybe they're young and up and coming; or late bloomers perhaps that just came good last season. I feel that this just isn't there in FIFA 12.


7. Manual Shooting

Just a bit more on shooting. Manual shooting shouldn't be mandatory for scoring goals from far out. It's too difficult to score screamers when the shoooting aids are on. (Yes, I said aids.)


8. Players finding space

Again, another short recap. I can't stress enough how terrible the players on this game are at making runs and finding space.

Here's the best video I could find of examples of good runs and players' ability to find space, from the past FIFA titles: