Instead it is at times frustrating to control because your player needs to have actual control of his feet and momentum in order to successfully pass and not just fire the ball off in some random direction. It is a marvelous engine to watch in action, because it makes the players move fluidly, stumble around if they get run into, and the ball itself does an awful lot of moving around that does not seem as eerily perfect as in earlier games. This is I think partially due to the game’s revamped physics engine, which makes tackling and dribbling a lot more difficult as the players are actually bound by the laws of physics now.
Here is a game that completely took me apart and forced me to revert to the easiest of easy modes to have any sort of success-and even on the lowest difficulty I still lost a hard-fought match to Chelsea (which I can understand, as honestly Blackburn’s not got much of a shot against Chelsea under any circumstances). The other problem is that FIFA 12 is unforgivingly difficult. Also your Pokemon are pro soccer players. It’s like Pokemon, if you had to pay for new Pokemon instead of just wander around until you found one. Instead of Lounge Mode, there’s the bloody awful Ultimate Team, which exists now in all EA sporting games, I predict a veritable minefield of microtransactions awaits the player and so no, I did not bother to investigate, because I have better things to spend my money on than buying footballers. It’s a depressing step backwards and it robs the series of something that made it stand out among the other sports games out there. Lounge Mode is dead, and nothing better replaced it. If you would like to play against your friends on the couch, boot up the exhibition matches and get comfortable, because that’s all there is. There is, bafflingly, absolutely no comparable mode available. Vanished to the aether and replaced by… nothing at all. Firstly, and in my mind most importantly, Lounge Mode is gone. After playing FIFA 12‘s demo, I was elated to see that the game played much as I recalled its predecessors playing, and so when I got my hands on the full game, I was excited to dive headfirst into something which I was sure would be incredible. I have a few immensely fond memories of playing lots and lots of FIFA 11 at my friend’s flat in Aberystwyth, using the absolutely brilliant Lounge Mode and passing the controllers around to whomever was currently up to play. I have a particular weakness for sporting games, especially for those which lend themselves to playing on the couch with several friends, generally with the television’s volume down and some music playing so I don’t have to listen to what is doubtless grating and repetitive commentary and bad licensed music.
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