Anyone who was lucky enough to watch Manchester City's stunning last second victory to secure their first Premier League championship in 44 years knows just how exciting soccer can be. I'll even dare to say that you'd be hard pressed to find any American sporting event this year that could match it.
At its very best, the
FIFA series can be almost as exciting to play, and EA Sports has unveiled today a set of game-changing innovations that hopefully can make
FIFA 13 that exciting more often.
The first big one is a revamped dribbling system inspired by the miniature magician himself, Lionel Messi. Complete Dribbling will enable players to break down defenders with full 360 degree control over your movements with the ball.
The second big one is a new sophisticated artificial intelligence that should allow AI players to respond to ever changing game conditions more realistically.
So hopefully that means the days where your teammate ignores the defender that just stole the ball and makes a run down the wing like he didn't see it are over. Actually, that's not nearly as big an issue as AI players that won't mark, challenge, and have the awful tendency to run away from the player with the ball when he enters the box. If they fix that, I'll be happy. Oh, also, they need to fix the fact that defenders read your button inputs to execute perfect offside traps, can challenge with impunity since the ref never calls fouls on them, and attackers can psychically dodge any challenge.
Yeah, I don't want too much. To read the rest of the changes, follow the jump.
FIFA 13 will be out this fall for every piece of electronic equipment you can play a videogame on - literally.
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