Fifa 13 game review Nearly a month has passed since EA kicked off sales for its latest Fifa release and, despite an influx of other impressive titles including PES 2013, the king of footie games remains firmly at the top of the UK charts. That's hardly a surprise in a population so grossly obsessed with the 'beautiful game'. Fifa 13 Kept alive …
"There's also the addition of Kinect and Move functionality, not that it's anything other than a gimmick to tick the feature box. "
Either EA shot themselves in the foot with not implementing this properly or the reviewer didn't have the room to try it out. I find football games to be perfect for Kinect and Move! Can we expect a more in-depth review with more Kinect / move play time added?
Paris as she likes things more in-depth as well !
Think its just the Wii version which is the same. Also, PSVita FIFA13 is, I think, the same as the previous FIFA football (though as Vita arrived during the year its perhaps more of a case of them getting the first version out and starting the annual upgrade process with 14) ... though in both cases I think the soundtracks have changed!
*sigh* I miss those games for the sheer pick up and just have a good old kick about.
My son got Pro Evolution Soccer for his console. I figured, not having played either PES or FIFA, that it would have a quick play option and be "straight forward" for someone to pick up. He struggled passing a bit where he had to navigate through some cones as part of training... He gave up and its sat on the shelf since. He's shown no signs of wanting to try PES or FIFA since. I'd have liked it if it was simple to get the ball, navigate with the sticks and press X to shoot at the goal.
If it had been like Kick Off (I lost too many hours on that!) then I think he'd be still playing it.
more real life problems
Got a top notch midfielder? no you have because he's in jail for GBH.
Your star striker has just burned his house down during a party.
your best defender is now in hiding because of a rumor he sexually prefers sheep started by a lurid story in a red top 'news' paper
And finally a 10 point deduction because the chairman has done a runner with the inland revenue's money leaving you staring at relegation and the club goes bankrupt as a result
Back in the day, I used to play a text based footy management game called 'Champions' on the Dragon 32. Was written in basic, so you could get into the code, and simulate very similar scenarios to the ones you mentioned. Amending that code to report that, instead of having a 'cartilage operation' and missing 6 months of the season, my striker had 'gone mental' and been committed (and other similarly 'hilarious' outcomes), also shaped my career choice, and I'm now an Application Developer. Perhaps, rather than stuff like the Raspberry Pi, providing code that 9 year olds can cock around with would be the way to inspire the next generation of geeks. Okay, I appear to have wandered a bit......
Given the content is mostly changing teams in a few leagues and players age and names, then this type of game is perfect for a subscription model and with that I'm supprised EA has not tried vampiring that approach.
But there again that would require a fixed/stable development/ongoing support team and with the fixed yearly release model they take currently then EA does have the option to just change the development team yearly, just for the hell of it if they wished.
Oh well, those that play these types of games will already know what its about and either buy it or not, many just wait a year and play a year behind and save alot of money.
When they have good multiplayer football ala TeamFortress2 style, then I'll bite.
--Paris as they still have to implement pitch invasion streakers (fashionable in the 80's)
move might be interesting...
as i only play offline ps3 can anyone tell me if the usual issues still exist? same scripted transfers (there shouldnt be any first season, i want to play with current teams until xmas!!)
young players still not grow? and when they do its scripted rather than how they actually play?!
career mode always seems to be so poorly tested it kills the fun.
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