Thread: Fifa 12

The annual iteration, the rosterupdate, the FIFA gravy train chugs on… Except, EA Canada has neveractually been into the idea of producing the similar thing above andabove again with only a serving of updated team sheets, a couple offresh modes and a novel photo of Rooney for the cover.


Fifa 12 is … different. For months,EA Sports has been banging on about its three major alterations tothe match mechanics: close control, the player impact engine and thenovel tactical supporting alternative. Turns out they weren'tbluffing.

After various hours of play, it's thesecond that's emerging like the most important transition. Likeyou'll experience, the old trick of hitting the A button to send anAI protector hurling toward the attacking player as an Exocet missilein polyester shorts is nowadays gone. Good sort of. It's a small morecomplicated as compared to that.




In Fifa 12, there's a multi - layeredsystem that now lets you hold the A button to "contain" theman on the ball – it brings the player you're controlling right upto him and you'll automatically try to shepherd your opponent intodisadvantageous positions. It's neat, it's effective and it lets youto concatenation into a proper tackle, as a football beat-'em-up.

That is well much as close as weacquire to the auto- protect nature of last Fifa embodiments.Meantime, the jockeying function, got at through the left trigger,lets you to face the incoming player and make a barrier among him andthe goal; this can also be united with the "run" button inorder to deal with running opponents.


Many FIFA fans will find this forces aradical change in their defensive philosophy, running from a mobileapproach of darting slopes from the rear and slope and head-onnipping tackles, toward a zonal, more rigorously designed approach,where players acquire into position and block out attacks, justtackling when the ball is clearly there to be taken. Initially, Ifought to separate the contain and jockey functions – they are bothabout controlling the incoming player, after all, and for ages theyappeared interchangeable. But then there's the "team jockey"option, sitting above with the right tab button.