FIFA 10 Demo is LIVE

Electronic Arts released a demo version of FIFA 10 on Xbox Live. It's only available for gold members for now.

[Charlie1993]

Can't find it yet
can someone confirm it please.

[Battlefield]

fake story?

[Yi-Long]

...I downloaded and played it. It's under F. on games marketplace, but will probably show up at new releases now or soon.

Anyway, I played 3 matches, and I'm severely disappointed:

+ 360 degrees controls are great.
+ Players react better (more diverse) to balls in the air (more volleys and different headers.

- Still the extremely unfriendly menu, which takes ages to pick the club you want to play, among other old negatives about the menu. Like so many EA menu's lately, it looks OK but is just CRAP to navigate quickly and in a way that would make sense.

- Keepers are crap. Come out too far from their goals, which means lots of easy lobs from the opposition. Ridiculous. And yeah, I played on experienced (the highest setting available in the demo)

- The bodycheck option for the rightstick to battle for the ball sounds nice in theory, but in practice those programming geniusses(!) have managed to also make that change the player you're controlling(!)

- I threw the ball into the opposing goal-area, the opponent headed it behind it's own keeper (with no players of mine near him btw), and the goal was given to the player who gave the pass, instead of it being the own goal it so clearly was. And no, the ball wasn't heading towards goal begfore the idiot headed it in.

- Replays now look horrible. When the ref gives someone a card, only the ref and players around him are sharp, and the rest is just a complete blurry mess. Might be an artistic choice they made, but TBH, it really was the wrong choice.

I think I will stick to FIFA09 (or perhaps Pro Evo will finally surprise us), cause the demo is absolutely not convincing me that this is an improvement, let alone a reason to shell out 60 bucks for it.

Such a shame. I had high hopes but this is just ridiculous... :(

[Arsenal4Ever]

Imo it's great. If you know how to play the game then i'm sure you will like it.

[Yi-Long]

... I played football games ever since the first Fifa on the Megadrive (still have that one btw) and the first International Superstar Soccer on the SNES (actually, before those games, I was already playing football games on the C64 and amiga and such...)

Dating back to recent memory, I've played LOTS of Pro Evo and last year FIFA09, and my problems with this demo had nothing to do with it being 'difficult',
but with the AI of the keeper and design-decisions when it comes to the unfriendly menu (same problems as last year, where it will take ages to quickly pick the team you want), as well as the right-stick which you want to use for body-checks, but will also change the player you're controlling (which is just beyond stupidity).

[PopEmUp]

even tho I do owned it. There were one reason that I couldn't play the game for long period of time, is simply because of the gameplay. In my opinion it still haven't match to what pro evo have offered, i.e. it doesn't give the realistic feeling of playing football.

I have to admitted that fifa have been improve both in the gameplay and the graphic, however the Ai are still not smart.
I have try out the hardest setting, but still I manage to at least score them 5-0 everytime, I say what the point of playing when your opponent are so easy to beat? Lucky Fifa have the online which were awesome comparing to pro evo.

Either way I don't see the point of buying this one, maybe a rent to see if the Ai have an improvement with a harder difficulty. I probably stay with 09 for now and getting 2010 pro evo

[DMason]

The demo is absolutely atrocious. It feels like it should have been made 10 years ago. The gameplay is too fast paced, the players stick to the ground, and it has a real arcadey feel to it. I had extremely high hopes for this game, because I am a rabid FIFA 09 fan, but I was sorely disappointed.

EA you have let me down. Looks like I'm going to pick up PES this year.

[pandabear]

I think I'll be getting this on PS3 as ironically the 360 doesn't have the new 360 degree control that the PS3 version has

[marcindpol]

are you serious???, i do not think so you are...

can someone confirm please.

[IronFistChinMi]

Don't spread BS. The 360 has 360 movement on the analogue stick, but not with the D-pad due to the D-pad being 8-way directional only. Thing is, it was Konami who said this and not EA.

[Yi-Long]

... the 360 version has the 360 degrees controls. I just played it, and it controls pretty well, which makes you wonder why it took so long before it was incorporated into sportsgames like this...

Apart from the smoother controls though, I'm not impressed with the demo AT ALL.

[only on playstaychun]

You are thinking of Konami. PES on the PS3 will have better 360 degree controls because of limitations on the xbox, according to what konami released.

[pandabear]

My appologies, It was PES who said this not Fifa (despite a new controller being released last year to improve PES (improved D Pad.

PES is really struggling to keep up with Fifa these days and looks like for the 3rd year in a row Fifa will be the better game.

Quote from Gamespot 'The PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC versions of the game will feature the new control system when using the analog sticks, while only PS3 users will see the benefit using the D pad--even with the upgraded D pad controller that shipped last year to tie in with Pro Evo’s 2009 iteration.'

[dangert12]

it's not very good its really esi

[Senden]

It's only up for europeans I think... and it's AMAZING.. best football game yet.

[BX81]

Sweet will download.

[iistuii]

Looks even better this year on the 360,It's so smoothe and fluid. I was a PES fan but i think this could well be the final nail in the coffin, it's really ,really good.

[Yi-Long]

... I don't think it looks noticably better than FIFA09, the menus are pretty much still the same (and unfriendly), and the player faces still aren't very good.
Add to that the blur in the background during the replays, and it seems EA has just churned out a lazy update to last year's excellent FIFA09 (which I still play on a regular basis)

Movement/animation IS smoother though, and looks nice. But as far as models, graphics, or whatever you want to call it, it's pretty much the exact same as last year.

[StormxWolf]

god... this is why im an PES fan. fifa hasnt shown me nothing. same crap every year. fifa hasnt been good since '94. EA needs to stop making sports game.

[THE_GLOW]

Your joking right? "Fifa hasnt shown you anything, same crap every year" and then you state these reason as to why your a pes fan LOL!! Mate come on. Pro hasnt changed one bit, it's still the same game it's always been since ps1 days.

Can you tell me how pro has changed? PES is dead and been dead.

[cider]

PES not only hasnt shown us anything new in last couple of games, they actually gone worse since ps1/2 days
i perfer pes more but cant deny that fifa really shown more improvement than pes especially on the ps3/360
i do hope to try out demo later when it hits the psn, for now i will sit tight and wait

[Baka-akaB]

I can see how he is offensive , but drop the crap , you just need to read any actual article or see a few matches , about pes 10 to see massive changes in both graphics and gameplay .. and some of those thanks to FIFA .

[GFahim]

is the pc demo out yet?

[iistuii]

If you really are playing 09 then there is no way that you cant tell this years game is better. Looks better, and a lot more animation, movement especially the goalkeepers. The amount of different saves ive seen so far in a demo is more than last years put together.The play is less rigid more free flowing and dare i say more PES. Less jaggies (i'm on the 360 version) than last year.The ball is more real, less like kicking a baloon. Its alot better and yeah i too have played every PES (before that ISS, and Fifa since the snes & megadrive)Have you not noticed how fluid it is , less robotic due to the 360 movement ? I cant believe if you like 09 you can say this isnt better. With all the new kits and rosters to go with it you'll be very alone online come October i can Gaurentee.Watch it fly off the shelves.

[Yi-Long]

... I thought I DID mention that those aspects look better.

Yes, it looks marginally better when it comes to the animations and movements and such (more fluid, more diverse), but I was talking about the graphics of the players themself (many still don't look very much like the actual players: even the stars), the field, the stadium, etc.

Plus the menu is only slightly better looking, but pretty much the same as last year. (which design-wise isn't bad at all, but I already explained my complaints about the menu)

[Epic]

Can anyone tell me if the response times have improved.. In FIFA09, I would constantly be frustrated by the slow response times - I would be able to press the pass button up to 3 times (within a 2 second period) before my player would actually pass...

If they improve that then I won'thave much to complain about..

I agree about the comments about the menu - in FIFA 09 it looks nice.. but it's slow and not as intuitive as it could be. But I'm not too bothered by that - once I get into the game, I forget about the menus hehe.

[Senden]

graphics don't make a good sports game.. it's all about the gameplay! Graphics still are good enough imo and at the end of the day, when you're playing on tele cam, nobody can tell player faces anyway!

[Arsenal4Ever]

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Sorry lol I just had to do that!

[Baka-akaB]

Sigh i dont understand ...

i wasnt expecting to like it nor should anyone used to my posts as i didnt truly enjoy fifa 09 ...
Sorry but it's a feeling thingy ... i quite cant like the sensations and controls of fifa yet , and doubt i ever will unless the redo it from scratch .

However i didnt expect the few bad surprises i had .

My issues here is that basically they emphase and advertise an indeed even more physical game ... when one of the issues of both PES and fifa , is that it's too damn easy to play physical and bully your way around .

I dont get it they indeed nerf infinite runs as promised , but at the same time give you more ways to push defenders and others around .. ending with the same results , the super athletes running pretty much straight toward to the goal .

On the plus side the controls are indeed better with 360° .