I think passing could use some work, as through balls and attacking support.
Passing : Even when i fire the bar up its an inside the foot pass that aint as hard as i want it to be. Maybe it would be overhit but i think thats the risk. Theres many risks in football, some are now represented in fifa but i still think development is needed and i hope EA dont rest thinking they got it nailed and just use the next year to develop flashy stuff.
Through balls: To one sided, and its WAY to easy to abuse it. I feel it playing H2H with a mate of mine. I can always get a 1on1 with the keeper, by iniating a 1-2 pass and then lobbed through ball. Plus the ball physics in through balls seems very generic and almost the same each time.
Attacking support: I think EA has worried alot about defending, and therefor alot of guys from the team hold ground at the middle. I made some beautiful passing this night, a defender overlapped, gave it to him and wanted to do a cross, but there was only one guy in the box and the others were walking/slow jogging around at the middle, looking like they marked a opposition player. In general the ai is better than fifa11 but its still kind of dumb. Its like they dont know whats going on around them and they seem to be programmed by default, for one task and thats what they stick to. Sometimes it seems as if a cb's job is to stay on an attacker he does it all the time, even when the cb's team is in possesion.
Im still getting tremendous fun out of the game, goal variety actually is nice this year, found out this evening. But there are some general fundamental things that i feel EA have missed, and imho shouldnt be missed, especially not by a big sports company like EA. PES on the other hand got almost everything about soccer nailed, but im just not feeling much fun playing it. In fifa when playing my mates there are moments where we both get really excited cause of the random movement of the ball when it bounces of someone. Pes got that to but i guess its the animation and physics (ball and general) that pulls me toward FIFA this year.
P.S. In fifa 11 this mate of mine always scored by a finesse shot, he tries to do them all the time in fifa12 and barely scores
. Great job by EA.
