The EGTV Show: FIFA special

tells you very little about all 3 fifa developments. A wasted vid in my opinion.

I wish EG would stop bumming EA Canada. Christ.

Good god...marketing nonsense - all that stuff about the 'user' and lots of gizmo type add ons...how about the actual gameplay - have they improved long range shooting, player movement etc. 1,000,000 or 6,000,000 players I couldn't care less it's the game I want to play.

The upward inflection is 'sales' speak like the idiot in the supermarket who ends the sales patter with the call to action
"today" (upwardly inflected of course)....I always want to ask and what about tomorrow.

Fifa 10 was as dull as dishwater. I hope the '100 improvements' here have included, making it a bit like football.

Basically its a Fifa 11 beta... right?

Blimey, I for one am happy we now have an EA making a good football game and talking to us. God remember how terrible FIFA used to be. Be thankful we're not stuck playing Actua Soccer or This is Football or some other monstrosity.

I play FIFA as it's now better than PES. It's a good game (for the most part.) There is one main issue, however; no matter how good they make it, so even if the game had graphics so good you can't tell the difference between it and Sky HD, chants taken from every stadium in 27 countries and licences from every league in the world down to Sunday Leagues the game would suffer because of the people who play it.

If you go on Xbox Live (and I'm sure PSN as well) then you have something like EA Super Smash FIFA Melée with formations of 0-2-8 and a clump of 10 players tracking the ball. Probably around 1-in-5 games sees you get into a team where the ball is passed around regularly, which is nothing short of frustrating.

Anyone who's experienced it will no doubt have had people deliberately run the ball into their own net, call the 'keeper out until he's sliding in on someone on the halfway line, slide into players off-the-ball to deliberately get people sent off, take shots from the kick-offs (and restarts following their own goals) and do tricks only to lose the ball because they never pass. These people spoil the game for everyone one.

Eurogamer if you could do anything, please, please take this suggestion and pass it on to Peter Moore, EA Canada or whoever can put this into their teams so it can be put in the game: Respect.

There's a big campaign (in the Premier League at least) about respect and providing a better game, here's something which will provide a better experience for all. Respect is a global score which you build up for playing "properly". Let's say you're a midfielder and you pass the ball, make the tackles and generally do as you ought, your score goes up. If you are the kind of degenerate, neanderthal, idiot player who does the things descibed above, which is not in keeping with the game the score goes down, say into negative numbers, then that stays on your record. In general, it records your Be A Pro score.

Here's the clever bit: you only get to play with people within a range of your own score.

What that means is all those pillocks who devalue and degrade everyone else's gaming experience all get grouped together. If they then want to do nothing else but annoy people, let them do it with others who (for reasons known only to themselves) find this kind of behaviour acceptable.

For the rest of us who want to play the game in the way in which it's meant to be played, for those of us who like to pass the ball, be the one spreading the play or playing the cheeky throughballs... Then we'll get to do it with people who'll pass the ball, stay in position, work for the team and make the gaming experience a complete one.

I realise you can do the skill filter but you need to head-to-heads on that and I don't enjoy those. Some of the skilled players are more annoying/abusive than the regular imbeciles.

That's quite a long rant and I hope I've explained it in a way which is understandable and acceptable. If EA look to put this (or something like it) into the game then I'll be prepared to look past the "questionable" AI in single player, the occasional game crash and slightly wobbly server performance (although seriously, please let Microsoft do it...)

Actually, maybe if Mr Moore fancies a 10-15 minute phone call we can discuss ideas...

In all seriousness, please could anyone with ANY power to pass this on, please do so. Thanks.

To be honest as long as FIFA 11 is as good and pushes the boundaries still, I will buy it as a fan

Can you get Eurogamer TV as a podcast?