Fifa 09 and me: Its a love / hate relationship (FIFA 09 (PS3))

Member Name: cia00wpn

Product:	FIFA 09 (PS3)
Date:	05/09/09 (11 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Polished, slick gameplay

Disadvantages: online problems, game shaping

This is a great game, which I really enjoying playing - but - it has a number of issues which reduce its appeal to me.

Rather than echo all the good points made by other reviewers, I will simply say that this is easily the best Fifa to day and in my opinion overtakes Pro Evo now.

Now to those issues:

Problems with Online Play:
Online play is a big feature of this game - and something that I enjoy simply because pitting your skills against a human competitor and hopefullly winning is so much more satisfying than playing against the computer!! BUT : I experience problems every time I play online when trying to connect with someone else. And this is a well known issue that many other people experience too. It is extremely frustating not being able to simply and quickly connect to online games on Fifa and this is a problem which I have not experienced with any other games. It is especially annoying given that such a lot is made of the online gameplay by EA Sports!

'Game Shaping'
By this I mean that the game oftens seems (pretty obviously) to favour one team in matches, making it very difficult, if not impossible, to win/lose (depending which way the bias is swinging). Again, this isn't just something I experience but a well known issue experienced by many players.

Summary: Great , but needs more work