First Look At Fifa 09

Leebo33 · Post by **Leebo33** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:22 pm

I know I'm late to the party (a $30 drop in price does wonders), but I LOVE this game (PS3)!! However, I have one problem. How do I get any power behind headers, especially off of crosses/corners?

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:56 pm

Leebo33 wrote:I know I'm late to the party (a $30 drop in price does wonders), but I LOVE this game (PS3)!! However, I have one problem. How do I get any power behind headers, especially off of crosses/corners?

Especially on corners, it's all about the angle of attack. Use the LT to jostle off any defenders and try to strike the incoming pass at angle that will put it into a corner of the net. I also hold the RB, which is nominally the finesse button but seems to work differently on headers. I'm using the PES-like alternate controls here.

Leebo33 · Post by **Leebo33** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:57 pm

Thanks, Rob. I'll give it a try tonight.

bdoughty · Post by **bdoughty** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:33 am

Ultimate team trailer

http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/objects/1424 ... 20509.html

EA Blog Ultimate Team Online Tourny

http://insideblog.easports.com/archive/ ... ments.aspx

FifaInspected · Post by **FifaInspected** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:16 pm

Leebo33 wrote:I know I'm late to the party (a $30 drop in price does wonders), but I LOVE this game (PS3)!! However, I have one problem. How do I get any power behind headers, especially off of crosses/corners?

Leebo - Where did you see (and purchase) Fifa 09 with the $30.00 Price drop?

Leebo33 · Post by **Leebo33** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:34 pm

I bought the PS3 version at Target for $29.99. I'm assuming it came out on release day at $59.99 so that's how I came up with the $30.

Macca00 · Post by **Macca00** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:50 am

I finally got a new 360 - I got the Resident Evil 5 Limited Edition Elite which happens to have a Jasper chipset/motherboard/whatever so I'll be back to f*** things up in OTP.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:40 am

Macca00 wrote:I finally got a new 360 - I got the Resident Evil 5 Limited Edition Elite which happens to have a Jasper chipset/motherboard/whatever so I'll be back to f*** things up in OTP.

I'm sorry, do I know you?

Great news! We'll be on tonight...and tomorrow...etc.

Jimmydeicide · Post by **Jimmydeicide** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 4:19 pm

Me too hopefully and we can make some scouse soup together.

Atxj · Post by **Atxj** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:34 am

You guys that are still playing this a bunch send me a friend request. I was out of an Xbox for a while and am since back but have a new gamertag and can hardly ever find a decent game online.

a futbol fiend

Jimmydeicide · Post by **Jimmydeicide** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:44 am

Sorry i flaked, i went out and did a joey barton (without the violence of course)and failed to make the game time

On second thought i should have said Gerrard or Ireland or...

FifaInspected · Post by **FifaInspected** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:41 am

Ultimate Team add-on available now. They did offer us the choice of downloading a 5 game trial for no cost or the complete add-on for 800 MS points. It's a fairly big file at 1.6GB.

I'm going to give this a try.

Macca00 · Post by **Macca00** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:18 pm

'Twas fun last night gentlemen, f@cking Ibrahimovic!!!

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 4:22 pm

Macca00 wrote:'Twas fun last night gentlemen, f@cking Ibrahimovic!!!

I'm thrilled at the groups we've been getting. 6 players several nights in a row!

I hate that "Swede." Most hated OTP opponents:

C. Ronaldo
Drogba
Ibrahimovic
That ridiculous hairy bastard from France who is so overrated that it makes a mockery of the game.

Gangrel · Post by **Gangrel** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:33 pm

I still need to find some time when I'm in a FIFA mood to try this out online with you guys. I'm assuming this is like NHL OTP, where you can pick your position before each game? I'd let you vets pick the important ones while I hang out in the central midfield maybe......

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 5:54 pm

Gangrel wrote:I still need to find some time when I'm in a FIFA mood to try this out online with you guys. I'm assuming this is like NHL OTP, where you can pick your position before each game? I'd let you vets pick the important ones while I hang out in the central midfield maybe......

That is how it works, although you're playing with the actual players (in some, but not all, cases normalized to an 85 rating.) And we are very open to letting anyone play anywhere they want. We've played over 1000 games, so we're just happy to have fresh blood.

Gangrel · Post by **Gangrel** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:26 pm

I noticed that when I popped into the dressing room to see if there was a squad update today. I can only ask, why the heck is DSP so good at footie, but so bad at hockey?

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:08 pm

Gangrel wrote:I noticed that when I popped into the dressing room to see if there was a squad update today. I can only ask, why the heck is DSP so good at footie, but so bad at hockey?

It's because Zeppo foolishly plays more of the latter than the former.

Gangrel · Post by **Gangrel** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:22 pm

I also noticed I had an update when I played today. On the Ea board there is debate on if it fixed anything, or was simply to have the Ulitmate Team or whatever it is put on the main menu......

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:02 pm

Gangrel wrote:I also noticed I had an update when I played today. On the Ea board there is debate on if it fixed anything, or was simply to have the Ulitmate Team or whatever it is put on the main menu......

Given the lack of gameplay updates, I'd guess that it's just the UT download. I'd love to see the gameplay tweaked, but I'm not optimistic.

FifaInspected · Post by **FifaInspected** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:44 am

Hi Guys,

After playing a number of UT games last night I can tell you that EA did tweak the game play. I have not played standard FIFA since I bought UT, so I cannot verify if those tweaks make it into FIFA 09.

Please keep in mind dissecting a game is not my cup of tea or something I like to do.. So these are casual observations.

First, crossing is different. For those that think crossing in Fifa was a bit broken you'll like the change.

Corners are more effective as well (2 goals in 9 games.. where I had yet to score off a corner in Fifa)

More space - FBisdead and I both think it felt as if there was more space.. I can't really put my finger on it but it felt as if the pitch was bigger. Maybe i'm crazy but that's what it felt like to us.

Besides what I mentioned above the game just feels a tad bit different.

** There is no friends list support online. When you play a match it's all random. That being said, FBisdead and I were able to play all of our matches together by simply doing the 3-2-1 "go" 75% of the time we connected the first or second time, on one occasion it took us about a dozen... But we finally made it.

For people who like the process of building a team the mode looks pretty cool. They also added a new "Arena" and new stadiums for the UT matches to be played in.

~ Fifa

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:53 am

Do I have to play online matches with UT?

FIFA: notice the CPU taking more longer shots?

FifaInspected · Post by **FifaInspected** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:06 pm

JRod wrote:Do I have to play online matches with UT?

FIFA: notice the CPU taking more longer shots?

Jrod-

No, you can play online of offline. As for longer shots by the CPU.. I've not yet played offline so I can't answer that at this time. If I get some time today i'll take a look.

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:13 pm

FifaInspected wrote:
JRod wrote:Do I have to play online matches with UT?

FIFA: notice the CPU taking more longer shots?
Jrod-

No, you can play online of offline. As for longer shots by the CPU.. I've not yet played offline so I can't answer that at this time. If I get some time today i'll take a look.

Who are your opponents other UT teams or other real teams. I would imagine for online games other UTs but I'm curious how this works offline.

FifaInspected · Post by **FifaInspected** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:06 pm

Hey Rod,

I fired up an offline UT game to see the opponent. It was a team I had never heard of before that was also rated at 1.5 stars (same as me.)

It could have very well been a real team for all I know, but the fact that it was similar level and I had no choice as to who to play. I selected Play Match and this particular team popped up.

I'm solo with the kids today and tonight so my time has been very limited. I hope to check this out more tonight.