2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Available Now, Post Your Impressions

[dubcity]

Quote: Originally Posted by gopher_guy

Question for you guys who are saying that playing with the top teams is too "arcade-y", however you want to describe it. Did you lower the passing accuracy sliders? I'm playing on manual passing, and have lowered the CPU's passing accuracy. Even when playing as 5 star teams, both me and the CPU miss some passes, which in turn obviously slows the game down.

It's more the playing style and tactics of the top teams than anything that can be addressed by sliders. Spain should not be counter-attacking and making dive bomber runs every single time they get possession. It's the same issue I had with FIFA 13. Spent way too much time tweaking sliders and team tactics in futility back then.

[eagletal88]

Gameplay is excellent on this game. Best soccer game out there IMO. But the major bugs that this game was released with is kind of embarrassing...

Did they test this stuff?

[wjmooner]

Quote: Originally Posted by jms25613

Actually, the rosters that are in the game reflect all players that participated in this qualifying cycle. Since Tevez and Pastore didnt participate in any of the CONMEBOL qualifiers, they were omitted. Same reason there is no Costa for Spain, no Julian Green for USA. Sidenote: Not sure what method was used for Brazil considering they didn't have to qualify. My assumption is that they just picked players that played in the friendlies in the past 3-4 years.

That's interesting, and probably the thinking behind it, although Pastore did play two qualifiers at the start of this cycle. Similar to the USMNT's treatment of Bocanegra, but he's still included in the game even though he's out of the Nat'l team picture.

[wjmooner]

Quote: Originally Posted by ADHAMM3R

from what I know, Tevez is pretty much done playing internationally. He already stated he won't play this year, so logically, they wouldn't include him in a WORLD CUP game. Idk about Pastore though. It isn't like they don't already have a wealth of attackers far better than Pastore. I know it takes away from the realism a bit, but hopefully they will address that soon. I expect another roster update by mid-May, after more international friendlies are played.

I know Tevez says he's done, but to me part of the fun of the WC games (and FIFA now that you can manage the national teams) is having the chance to manage the team the way you'd want to.

There's a small group of players who have "retired" who I'm sure most players would rather have on their respective national teams (Tevez, Vela with Mexico, I'm sure there's a couple others). They should give us that option. Ironically, Cherundolo has officially retired, and he's still available for the USMNT.

[XXstormmXX]

This is the same scripted junk as regular FIFA 14.

[My993C2]

Can you control more than one team during the World Cup tournament mode in this game as well as control more than one team during the qualifying phase or are you restricted to being in control of one and only one team? There are not enough hours in the day to be able to play all the games, but having the option of letting two CPU teams battle each other out (especially in the playoff knock out phase) is always a nice option to have. I hate when we are restricted to controlling only one team, and the season immediately comes to and end with all the remaining games simmed to the end of the season if/when your team gets knocked out at any stage.

[dubcity]

I think they went way overboard with the colors. Ever since FIFA 13, they've made the colors more and more cartoony and bright, and now it just looks so bad. Sunny days look like an in-progress nuclear blast.

[zmcman1]

after not having played FIFA '14 since buying World Cup, I fired up my Bristol City manager mode that's in Year 3. And it really made me appreciate the WC game a bit more. I know people complain about WC being a bit faster paced than '14, which hasn't particularly bothered me. but I feel like the players in WC play a lot more true to their actual ratings.


The primary example would be passing. As I'm playing with Bristol right now with a team full of players from 66-74 overall....I feel like my squad is full of Xavis. Perfectly played passes every time, air through balls with ease. I could play with a similarly rated team in WC and see passes that are more inaccurate and likely to be stolen by the AI defense. Air through balls notably have to be timed a lot better in WC instead of just whipping them around in FIFA '14.

Controller responsiveness, crosses/headers having tweaks, the ball mechanics, the goalkeeper improvements....World Cup just feels like a much better playing game to me. Hopefully they patch the various career mode bugs because some of them are pretty game breaking.

and I would have to agree with the comment about the colors above. There's one stadium in the game that looks like it has a dust storm going through it.