Even in this game the referees are crap!
The opposition look at you or run near you, they get the ball like taking candy from a baby, you look at the opposition and the referee will give them a free kick. I've never seen so much pushing and shoving off the ball from an opposition and the ref does nothing.
The game AI is crap, players on your team keep running into you when you try and move forward whether in sngle player or two player co-op mode. "Get out of the f**ken way AI" is a common shout.
When my nephew and I play on the same side against the XBox 360, we get these problems. It's like your own AI players cant read the flow of the game and run around like headless chickens, none ever seem to do any tackling or intercepting or passing. Icluding in single player mode.
When we have turned the "AI to player change" down to nil the stupid AI still changes you without you wanting to change. We missed a lot of goals when the AI has pulled that stunt. WTF EA, sort the friggen thing out.
This game could or should be that if you choose one player only, the rest of your team works around it and carries on. And as we all do, choose to change players, then let us change to who we want to by using our directional keys. Stop trying to guess as you usually ending up cycling through half the friggen team to get to the player.
When playing the game on your own, in defence and you hoof the ball up the middle of the paddock as in an emergency type clearance, why does the ball end up going out instead of straight up the middle? Another bug!
I was so hopeful yet a tad disappointed with these faults. As I said, instead of worrying about cutesy trick moves for certain players, EA, should have gone after making the game AI more friggen intelligent whether it be on your own team or the opposition.
And sort out the friggen referees, they of A League standard.
Ps: Have you noticed that when a ball breaks loose off a player it always perfectly lands for the AI opposition 98% of the time. even in a pinball cluster around the center circle. I mean it falls perfectly for them. On the odd occasion it falls your way, they're there and tackling you before you even know it. This happens in single player or co-op 2 player.
Thought I'd republish this with the last two or three posts in mind.
