FIFA 17 Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[Wejwer89]

this is a great game to play with someone sitting next to me on one console. this is the only way to play for me. online has always been cheese'y, and playing against the CPU is boring after some time.

For me the only way to play this game is on manual passing and shooting. It seems that this year 'manual' is easier than before. It feels way more 'assisted'. I don't know... maybe it's like that only in demo.

Anyway: here is my gameplay against the CPU. I played on manual controller settings, and all of you who want some challenge, and for those who want to think before they pass - I suggest to put it on manual.

[Sneaky Deaky]

For everyone saying the AI just dribbles and doesn't try long balls or crosses, have you even tried to change the AI's tactics?





And there will be a LOT more of that in a 30 minute match! The truth is, it's hard for the AI to do much of anything in an 8 minute match, especially if you want to see some of the ball.

And yeah I won't disagree with anyone that says the AI's short passing is still ridiculous, but without any sliders we can't add any error to their first touch or passing...

[BL8001]

This could be retitled

fifa 17 just sprint

Because boy can you. Straight down the wings, straight through the middle. Straight anywhere.

And if you want to cheese harder zig zag. It's fifa 15 all over again.

I didn't believe it myself but read how op sprinting was elsewhere so just tried it and boy oh boy were they right.

[larma]

Very disappointing with the demo. This was my most expected game of the year. I played 100s of games on 16.

I played only 2 games so far but I felt only boredom. I couldn't wait for the games to end. There's just nothing to get excited about. I was expecting much more from Frostbite but it's only small touches. There's no new engine to speak of.
The corners are okay but I didn't get to test them much. Didn't get any free kicks so I can't comment on those.

PES demo feels like football and alive. This just goes west-east with the CPU trying to dribble the ball in.

The only thing FIFA has going for it this year is the licenses. They only care about FUT. Not sure anymore which game to get with NHL also getting a mixed reception. At the moment I can't see myself shelling out 60 € for this.


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[bristolbob]

Having now played a few games, I have to say I'm dissapointed but not surprised. It's not that the demo is bad, it's just that it seems to be a 'tarted up' version of FIFA 15/16. Yes, the graphics are slightly better, but there seems to be no great change in the AI. All they seem to do each year is tweek with the speed or accuracy of certain things (crosses, through balls etc). The commentary is the same old stuff we've heard for the past couple of editions and no doubt we'll have this years version of "Cech's moving to Arsenal for £40mil" being mentioned repeatedly in your first 3-4 games at the start and the missing names when reading out team sheets when you make transfers. That's just sloppy, lazy programming. The crowd atmosphere, or lack of is still the same.

Like I said, the demo is not bad, it's just that nothing has really changed in the past 3 years. I play offline career only and you know full well that the same old career mode issues will be there; poor transfer system, the glut of 45 and 90min goals, the way each season always pans out the same - first 6-8 games are tight affairs with 1-0,2-0,1-1 scorelines,then you have another dozen games where the flood gates open and you get 4-0, 3-0, 2-2, 5-1 score lines (i'm an average player), then you get the mid season rut where you lose a couple and only win 1 of 5/6 games, then the last few games the flood gates open again. Rinse and repeat. The fact as a 2 star team it's usually easier to play 4/5 star teams in cup games than league games at your level. The poor fixture schedule,......... It's just frustrating!

I've played FIFA since International Soccer days, but never been someone who buys it every year. That's partly to do with changing from PC to console, to PC and back to console (PS4 at mo) and not liking FIFA on PC. Having bought 15 and 16 on PS4 but before that was FIFA 12 on Xbox, I'm thinking it's maybe time for another FIFA break until they re-do it rather than just basically updating kits and squads and charging for a full game and BF1 is on the horizon so that can take up my limited gaming time.

[Bixer]

Quote: Originally Posted by Resurrection403

Where am I offering my opinion of the game? I'm simply posting that I don't intend to purchase it based on other peoples videos they've uploaded and perceptions. Also, love how you just gloss over the fact that demos never wind up being anything close to the patched retail game. Like that's not been a consistent thing. I mean, really. edit: Not trying to be confrontational. I love FIFA but as you can probably guess from my devs thread, I am quite sick and tired of how EA has allowed this series to get stale

You're not wrong at all - I'm surprised you were met with any disagreement really.

Anyone who's enjoying the demo, planning to buy the game and expecting it to still be representative of what we'll have in as little as 3 months is going to be disappointed I'm afraid.

I'll play the demo, just for curiosity's sake, but I won't be making a decision on whether or not I'll buy it based on it.

[Qb]

Played one game last night, well part of one game, as it hung and ultimately crashed after I [hilariously poorly] converted a PK following a handball in the box. That's a demo for you...

I'm not sure what to think about it. I don't really ever get much out of the FIFA demo, and I don't like the game on default settings anyway. So I'm not going to cancel my Amazon order just yet, but I'm more concerned about it than I was Monday.

Hopefully the unpolished/unbalanced feeling I get from it just an old build/demo thing and not indicative of the final tuned product. I mean, I know it will still be FIFA for better and worse, but I'd be rather surprised and disappointed if it took a big step back considering the series' trajectory and profile.

[cadalyst17]

I greatly enjoyed playing this demo. Everything was much improved from the graphics to game play. Still not crazy about the new PK system, or for that matter the corner kicks, but I will withhold my judgment when I see the final product. Definitely a buy for me! :-)