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OS Roundtable: Does FIFA Get Enough Credit?

11:35 AM - October 4, 2011 by RaychelSnr

Quick! Name the top selling sports video game in the world. If your answer was FIFA Soccer, then you are correct. FIFA 12 has hit store shelves and it is largely receiving pretty positive feedback from consumers and critics alike. But yet, come the end of the year, FIFA will probably not be in the discussion for Sports Game of the Year on most sites -- despite quality which seems to be on par with our genres best.

So the question OS Staffers is: Does FIFA get a fair shake? Do we give the series enough credit or is it unfairly punished for being a game replicating a sport which most in this country couldn't care less about?

Find out their responses after the jump.

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# 21 Jolly Roger @ 10/08/11 02:34 AM

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Originally Posted by TomZeWolf


	It's quite interesting for me to look at people from the US's views on FIFA. I personally think the game is way far from perfect, it's just about good enough to play. The Career Mode is a laughing stock, so many bugs. The collision engine isn't working as intended at all times.

I'm American and I agree with this. The FIFA series has never captured the tempo and patterns of football. I think they've been able to succeed based on all of the team/league licenses they have. To be honest, that's a big reason I've always been a FIFA player rather than a PES player.

As silly as this may sound, I think EA needs to stop listening to what the masses say they want in FIFA and just focus on creating a proper football game, whether people like it or not. If that means you have to watch as the AI passes it around at the back for 20 seconds, so be it. That's what happens in the real game. That's what should happen in FIFA.