[Official] Fifa 2010 - Demo is out


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I have played a ridiculous amount of Fifa 09 and I can tell that this game is different. Not better or worse but different.

Main example for me being the shooting and passing. Shooting seems to be a lot more difficult, passing however seems to be much more fluent along with the dribbling and through balls they all seem to have improved a lot. The angle on the corner spot looks really awkward and just plain feels wrong. There was nothing wrong with the old one, why change it?

You no longer have to sit there and study angles in order to score a freekick, I mean seriously in Fifa 09 you have to break out a freaking ruler to make sure you score one :p

Another thing I noticed was that the goal keeper when faced with a one on one situation comes waay out of his box and leaves himself really open, he does it himself with no player input and it just felt weird not to have any control over him, you can't make him go back so he just ends up getting chipped all the damn time..

I am liking the feel of it, it def feels different gameplay wise and its the kind of difference I could get used to. Graphics however and as Munkeh mentioned, if it had not had rooney on the loading screen I would have thought I was playing 09. Seriously to me they look identical.

Overall mixed reactions, need to get my hands on the full game (Y)

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PC demo is right here.

Wow! 8 MB download speed! University connection here.

OK COMODO flagged that as a virus and deleted it...

Not sure if its just my AV playing up or wether that is a virus but be cautious anyway people.

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Ok after playing it a bit more, starting to like it. Drogba is unstoppable they need to balance the strength of the strong players. Dribbling is much improved though don't know about the 360 dribbling they were claiming. Can score from corners or hit the bar 90% of the time. Shooting power finally seems to linearly correlated with the amount of time you press the button. Finesse shots are screwed up. Driven free kicks are screwed. "Pace control" speed and running speed, the difference is not as much as 09 so feels weird. Headers and crosses are much much improved (scored a header by nutching the goal keeper). Graphics improvement is minimal but it's not really a big deal in this type of game, however they at least could have updated the arenas.

Online is normally a totally different experience to offline so need to play it online to really see the game properly. However overall will buy it as soon as munky finds some awesome deals. Still better than proevo by miles.

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2.2 GB for PS2 graphics demo, wow ! seen some pics on EA's fifa forum and the combination of crap graphics & extreme blur look more 2000 than 2010, maybe fifa 2020 will have "next gen" graphics, lol. thank god pes won't be crap this year.

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OK COMODO flagged that as a virus and deleted it...

Not sure if its just my AV playing up or wether that is a virus but be cautious anyway people.

I just did a scan using avast! and it did not find anything wrong.

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Another thing I noticed was that the goal keeper when faced with a one on one situation comes waay out of his box and leaves himself really open, he does it himself with no player input and it just felt weird not to have any control over him, you can't make him go back so he just ends up getting chipped all the damn time..

Having had more time playing the demo now, I feel this is definitely the case. The keeper is constantly coming out quite far leaving himself vulnerable to lob shots.

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Having had more time playing the demo now, I feel this is definitely the case. The keeper is constantly coming out quite far leaving himself vulnerable to lob shots.

Yeah having played it a lot more since I made that comment I would argue that it is in fact broken. I have had the goal keeper come out of his line during a corner way before the ball was even kicked :s

That is the one and only thing concerning me about this game at the moment...

@ mr.r9 : I don't know why it did it, but it did flag it as a virus and deleted it without even asking me :laugh:

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I've played a few games on the PC demo and noticed a few things.

1) Messi is quite tall,

2) The goalkeeper enjoys chasing you around the penalty box,

3) They still haven't fixed every opposition free kick being scored against you,

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Brad had you even played the demo before those first impressions? LOL

It was like THIS IS FIFA09 WITH WORSE GRAPHICS.... oh wait, it's not that bad, now it's quite good I had fun with mates :p

And I stand by that :p first impressions were bad, but the game has grown on me. The shooting can be awesome, yet terrible, along with passing.

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I played the demo this morning.. I enjoyed the gameplay more that FIFA 09 and the game felt light, more responsive and it ran faster too.. and that too on my work Dell Vostro 1000 notebook with Mobile Sempron and ATI X1150.. I liked it overall and will get this game when it comes out.

What I missed in demo was detailed player stats during gameplay.. like in earlier FIFA games you could get a graph with the player name so you know how your player fairs against the opposing player and it helps during gameplay coz you know things like can I outrun him? should I try to dribble past? can I shoot from distance? etc.. maybe it will be there in full game but what I loved was and cant wait to try is the new season and Be a Pro mode which now include playing for national team and making the World Cup in 2010 squad :p

3) They still haven't fixed every opposition free kick being scored against you,

I don't know why that happened to you mate.. played abt 9-10 matches today and out of abt 20 freekicks I conceded in 30yds or less only 2 were scored.. both by Lamps.. I managed to win abt 5 kicks with 35yds and scored 2 of those.. one by Iniesta and other Del Piero.. I actually loved how the wall jumped precisely when I pressed the button.. (Y)

@Mail, Cheapest right now is Shopto for ?35

Not sure but I think I saw it for ?30 at FIFA10.com when I downloaded the demo.. but that direct download I think.. not the DVD

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