FIFA Soccer Blog explain that FIFA 12 plays better without enabling aids and assists
FIFA 12 is set to launch in just a few weeks time and the anticipation and excitement surrounding the game’s release is reaching fever pitch.
Luckily though Electronic Arts, the games publisher, has decided to give gamers something to wrap their ‘twitching with excitement’ hands around with a demo of FIFA 12 until the game hits shelves.
Electronic Arts Sports, more commonly known as EA Sports, have also released a guide on how fans can fully enjoy the demo, as well as leaving a few tips and hints which players can use, not just in the demo, but in the full game as well.
According to them, the developers are tired of the, now, age old debate of whether players should play using manual settings, which turns off all the assists and gives players complete control, or leaving the assists on, which makes pulling off impossible
passes seem like child’s play.
The FIFA Soccer Blog stated, “Just play the game the way you (the gamer) want to play it,” before continuing and explaining that the preference should be kept to themselves and not flaunted in everyone else’s faces.
However, the more interesting announcement came when the blog continued and stated in the very next sentence, “But being FIFA connoisseurs we do believe that some of the Assisted rails should be removed, purely because the game plays better.”
It is no secret that FIFA purists tend to prefer playing the game with a few of the assists disabled, while other noobs prefer to keep them on, but the fact that the blog states that the game ‘plays better’ without the assists is an indicator that perhaps
the more experienced players should remove that crutch for a more fulfilling experience.
The blog however, also explained that some aids were useful but, at the same time, a balance should be found which helps open the gameplay experience and not leave it too restricted.
They recommended, “So as a bare minimum we’d recommend having passing and shooting set to Semi in the Wireless Controller Settings.”
The blog continued and explained that turning a few of the settings to manual may be a daunting prospect for some gamers but the rewards would be ‘ten fold’ the risk.
With FIFA 12 becoming increasingly realistic and frighteningly fast paced with more options given to the player, it might just be time for players to give come out of the ‘assisted’ shell and take a few risks.
If not in the full version of the game, then maybe in the demo of the game, which is out later today in the United States and on the 14th for European users of the PlayStation 3.
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