FIFA 13 Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[~LiverpoolRed~]

I actually saw a goalkeeper injury. Lloris had to come off for Friedel due to a concussion.

[Belgian94]

Can somebody give me some tips here?

I can't seem to get through a defender ever on professional +

[Bellsprout]

The last two times that my guy has gone to do a quick throw, then I waited because I had nobody open and he dropped the ball to reset, the game has frozen.

Ugh.

[toomerk]

Quote: Originally Posted by kerosene31

Manual just takes practice, there's no way around it. This it the first year that I have everything on manual and I am loving it. Once you get good at manual passing, you might actually be better than with assisted. On manual, you can put a pass right where you want it, where with assisted the game tries to guess where you want the ball and player to meet (sometimes poorly). I started in stages. First I did manual passing, then shooting, then finally through balls and lob passes. There will be frustration at first but eventually when you get the hang of it, putting together the perfect scoring play is just that much more satisfying.

Are players' stats still taken into consideration when using all manual? Or does this get thrown out the window?

[Salhus]

Loving the new animations. The first touch and physicality are awesome and so much fun to play with.

I'm having freezing issues though. In career mode, if I go to edit the CPU teams tactics before the game it freezes before startup 7/10 times

[Gonira]

Quote: Originally Posted by toomerk

Are players' stats still taken into consideration when using all manual? Or does this get thrown out the window?

they are still taken into consideration. pass/shot strenght and accuracy differs greatly between differently rated players, even on manual.

[jb12780]

My early thoughts:

Battles in the air are great. You can really tell when you have a dominant one in the air.

First touch slider is all kinds of winning.

Why do all CPU teams try to pass the ball in the net?

Defense is a hot mess for both sides. I have rarely seen the CPU go for a no-nonsense clearance, they would rather try to pass the ball out of the back, which leads me to my next impression: the CPU rarely passes laterally or backwards.

It also seems like there is no reaction the the second ball in the air for both sides as well.

With all said said, it is a solid game.

[MVP9072]

Quote: Originally Posted by Salhus

Loving the new animations. The first touch and physicality are awesome and so much fun to play with. I'm having freezing issues though. In career mode, if I go to edit the CPU teams tactics before the game it freezes before startup 7/10 times

Why are you editing theirs....