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So what I did was to download the updates directly and install them manually. You never seem to know when your updates are complete once you install the game for the first time. This saved a lot of time and effort.Overall, a really great game to possess.Keep up the good work.and Lets FIFA 09 This is a truly awesome game.The Fifa series is at its best this year.Pros: Every aspect.Cons: I mainly bought this to play the online mode.However I was slightly disappointed with the slow EA online server which sometimes takes ages for starting a game. Also,the real buggy application is the EA download manager that comes with this.
Overall a great game for all football lovers. more things were changed from 08 than I thought and the menu is still horribly slow on PC.
And then, gameplay errors: If you make it down the flank, there is way, way too much space to be had "rounding the corner", a glitch I always used to score when I couldn't break down a defense otherwise. When you hit the sprint button and change direction simultaneously, the player will often go straight ahead. And then. You hammer a blistering free kick in Fifa 09, and it strikes the crossbar and rolls limply onto the top of the net. Despite the vaunted graphics, shots will go through the crossbar.
It shows the energy and wide-open feeling of PES as opposed to the scripted and syrupy game Fifa 09 is. The Securom mess has been dealt with by other reviews, so I won't go into it. A rolling ball will slow down as if the field were made of wet glue. For most this wouldn't even be an issue, but I still find the amount of control game makers want annoying. There are other mistakes I haven't seen mentioned in other reviews.
Another improvement is the lighting, which is bright and vivid. Try and dribble around the keeper in Fifa 09, and he'll just stay on his feet and follow you around. For some reason Konami has managed to capture the energy of a real match better than EA Sport's best attempts. First, despite all the improvements listed above, I find Winning Eleven 9, which remember is from 2005, to be more stimulating and realistic. And because of all the progress on my profile and because of the stupid so-called DRM software, I don't want to uninstall and re-install the game.
You can play the game without the disc, which in itself is nice. I also like the very well-done commentary.So here is the downside. I can't put five forwards on the field like real-life coach Jose Mourinho sometimes does when Inter are losing. Because it was from 2005 after all my brother and I decided to get a newer game. It would be nice if this were simple to do mid-game, as it is in W.E. (As a side note, it just didn't seem worth it to abandon the keyboard controls I know to use to learn the new mouse controls, so to be fair I don't get the complete experience).
"Be a Pro" seemed an interesting concept, but I didn't experiment too much with it. However, I had edited my international selections for Argentina, as well as added a new formation, on my home computer without the disc. EA Sports really has improved the series. The last Fifa game I played was Fifa World Cup 2006. It might be helpful to know I still have fun when playing on a LAN connection with my brother). I wanted another Konami version, but they hadn't even come out with a 2008 version for the PC. First off, I am not your average user in that I don't have internet, so there was an evening wasted in hooking up the gaming computer and getting the authorization required to run the game at all.
It is extremely aggravating. But there are still more negatives. Another minor problem is, after playing for a while the commentary simply stops. Worst of all, you can't dribble around the goalie. Sometimes it comes back in the second half, sometimes not.If you still want to buy this game, wait for the price to go down and some of the wrinkles to be ironed out. 9, but such is not the case. No, the formations must be created before the game on an awkward interface not even as good as an outdated 2005 Konami game offers.
All that work for nothing, since the multiplayer is the only mode I bother with anymore. But we went ahead with Fifa 09 based on reviews that said PES had gone downhill and the Fifa series had improved. No life to it. Since then I got Winning Eleven 9, and despite the clunky menues and cheesy narration I was hooked on the energy and astounding level of realism. I enjoy tweaking formations to optimize them for a certain situation. I enjoyed the manager mode and played for a virtual season before getting burned out.
I can find almost any player I look for in the world, which is nice, although there are occasional mistakes such as a player being right-footed when he is actually left-footed. Reviewers have hammered PES, and rightly so, about not updating their transfers, but this is worse because there is no remedy and it involves every team you can play with. I mean, that's as bad as messing up on the oath of office. In retrospect, it would have been so much better to wait for PES 2009. Lo and behold, every time I go to "International" on any menu except the multi-player, the game either crashes to the desktop or freezes up the computer, so that I have to hit the restart button. (Have you all figured out I don't like this game very much. And now for the stuff not dealing with gameplay. And lastly, I go to all the trouble of editing formations (and calling up different players on the national teams) and it has no effect on the multiplayer.
Since I wanted the same formations available on any computer I installed the disc on, I slid it in to make the same changes on-disc. Then, in one of the worst programming errors I have ever seen in a soccer game, he'll jump on the ball, smother it, and often as not the ref will give a penalty. And now you can actually dribble past someone without automatically losing the ball every time you come within three feet of a defender. Power up a shot or cross at full speed, and the player will take an unauthorized extra touch which gifts the other team a goal kick. This happens now with or without the disc. The biggest change I noticed was with the AI, who no longer jerk around in random, unrealistic direction changes, and play the most intelligently I have ever seen AI play.
Also, young players like Alex Pato and Man.U's Rafael are under-rated because of the growth system in the Manager mode. For me this is one of the defining differences between Konami and EA Sports. But these are minor. Sometimes you can see through players.
Very nice game, but last version works very fine in laptops with generics video card, but now require more powerful video cards.Very Nice game, with appropiete video card, read before videogames card tested or probed.
-The defender you switch to often 'jumps' the 'wrong' way from which you need him to be going (as opposed to just being entirely still when you get him). Seems like they only put real effort and some though in when there's a huge increase in temporary popularity of soccer/football.
I still gave this a 4-star in 'fun' because I love most any game that you can play multi-player. As it is, I don't believe whoever creates this game put much thought in to it and don't believe they had testers who really played the game for much or even testers who played the REAL game at high levels.
Hi, they claim to have made over 400 changes on this game but there are only a few I noticed. -I still have NO clue how to aim or shoot well on free kicks or penalties as there is no marker or power bar or anything and a PK shootout is harder to win than one of those crazy (rigged) games that they have at the Carnival where you have to put a 5 inch basketball in a 4 inch hole or something, lol.-That's all I can think of for now.maybe wait until the next world cup to buy instead.
Hope this helped in your decision one way or the other. -The game still has that horrid auto-change system which you can't turn off and completely destroys any design or intention you have for solidifying your defense (as you'll move a player to be in a certain position and then you'll be automatically switched to a different player).
-Hrrmm.a little simpler to score and shoot low deliberately (although I'm STILL not sure how to always shoot low).
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