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Titolo: Una recensione in inglese del nuovo gioco EA -Premier league Super Stars

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nuovo di zecca e non una mera rinfrescata a fifa99!!!
This is the latest in a long line of sports games from EA SPORTS. At
first, I thought this would just be FIFA 99
with new teams. Boy, was I mistaken. This is a totally new engine--from
the graphics, to the game-play, to
control. In the past, the FIFA series always seemed a bit too
arcade-like. They did not serve as good sims.
With Premier League Stars, EA has remedied this problem. The game still
has the same fun arcade elements,
but now it seems much more like a sim.
Gameplay
As I said the coders concentrated much more on making this a sim than an
arcade game. This is evident from
the start. You now have to really try hard to thread the ball through
the defense to get that shot on goal. The
gameplay has been greatly changed and improved. The AI of the computer
controlled players is a lot better.
Even on the easiest level of play, it still takes a great deal of skill
and effort to win. A nice new feature is the
ability to pass the ball through with varying levels of power. This is
nice because you can place the ball and
run for it. This is something I really felt FIFA was lacking.
You can no longer run for an indefinite length of time. Now you have a
limited
amount of time to sprint. You no longer have to keep tapping the run
button.
Now you hold it down and watch the bar in the screen drain. When it hits
zero,
you can no longer run. The shots you take now have a power bar and so
does
lobbing and clearing the ball. All this means once you get the hang of
the new
system, which for me an avid FIFA fan takes awhile, you have much more
control of the way in which you play the game. One thing I don't like is
that
they removed the ability to decide where you want the ball to land when
you
take a free kick or a corner. Now you can simply change your angle and
use
the shot or pass button or chip button to set the power. In FIFA, you
were able
to see the direction and the angle. Now you have to guess, which isn't
always that easy. It is also much
harder to take penalties. I have yet to score one, but I guess that
comes with practice.
As with all FIFA games, there is a career mode of sorts. However, in
this one, it's greatly enhanced. In the
league mode, you select your team and play your matches. However, once
you win a match you are given
stars. With stars, you can upgrade your players, you can improve their
strength, agility, etc. You can also buy
players from the transfer market. All of that costs stars and each time
you win a game you are awarded a
certain amount of stars. This really adds to the richness of the
gameplay and adds a great deal more depth to
career play that was often missing from the previous FIFA games.
As with all games, there is of lots and lots of stats. If you want to
see these, you can go to stats central. You
can see stats such as best teams, best players, anything you could ever
really want to know. To add even
more to the game, at all times you have strong control over the team
management. You can modify such
things as the attacking bias, the positioning of the players inside
their formations, as well as the formation
they are in, and the order of kick takers and who takes penalty corners
and free kicks. This really means that
you are a player manager and really adds to the gameplay.
Another nice addition is you can have a player record this contains all
sorts of details like the shortest time till
you scored a goal and the best score you have all stats like this can be
stored for the future this means you
can keep a record of how good or in my case how bad you are at the game.
Graphics
The graphics in this game are STUNNING. The attention to detail is
amazing. The level of detail on the players
is amazing. For example, Ryan Giggs really does look very much like Ryan
Giggs. The quality of the textures is
amazing as well. The grass now looks like grass and the goals look much
more realistic. Basically, any
complaint you had with FIFA graphics has been addressed here and
improved beyond belief. The menu
screens even look amazing and the stats are big and readable. The whole
game has a very polished and
professional look to it.
Another great addition is the amazing camera angles you can get with
replays. When you score a goal, it well
worth watching the replay. When you do a custom replay, you can modify
the zoom and the camera
positioning a full 360 degrees. This allows for some incredible looking
replays.
Audio
I am a big house music fan. Because all the music here is from Ministry
of sound, I found it quite appealing.
The in game sounds are fine. It has the standard crowd chanting, but, as
with all FIFA games, the crowd
chants never really match the in-game action that closely. The
commentary for once is not that annoying. It's
not the kind that makes you want to turn it off after 5 minutes. It is
actually quite accurate. As usual though,
one of the commentators sometimes acts like a parrot. This can be quite
annoying but doesn't happen that
often.
Control
The controls are brand new and are totally changed from FIFA. At first,
I disliked this and really thought god
they messed this up badly. But, after playing for about 10 minutes and
actually reading the manual, I realised
the controls are actually greatly improved and as I said give you much
more control over your players. The
game is designed to be played with a Microsoft sidewinder game pad and
so at times I found it a little hard to
do some of the skill moves with my humble gravis gamepad pro. With FIFA,
the gravis was the featured
controller now they have moved to the sidewinder. I really hope they
pick a standard and stick with it. I, for
one, can't afford to keep buying game controllers.
Replayability
With the inclusion of the enhanced career mode and the general great
gameplay of EA soccer games, I will be
playing this for a long time to come. I'm sure it will be just like FIFA
99, which had me always coming back to
play just one more game. The network play looks great and so far seems
to play pretty smooth.
Overall
If you like FIFA, you'll love this. In fact, if you like great sports
games you will love this. If you love FIFA, give
yourself time to get used to new the controls of the game because
believe me it really is worth it. The whole
way through this review, I have compared this to FIFA. I realise this
could be wrong, but the comparison has
to be made. I really hope FIFA 2000 is as amazing as this is. The only
shortcoming with this game is that only
the premiere league teams are included. This is unusual for an EA SPORTS
game as they usually have every
team you have heard of and everyone you have never heard of but this
time they just included the premiere
league players and concentrated more on the new engine and controls.
The Gimp

nuovo di zecca e non una mera rinfrescata a fifa99!!!
secondo me hanno fatto una prova del motore di fifa2000.
Cmq se e' cosi', sto andando al negozio a prenotare fifa.
:-)))
  Cristiano Repetti
 
cris...@iname.com
 
www.agonet.it/beppiland
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L'ho comperato oggi . Installato stasera . Ho appena fatto un paio di
partitine di prova.
Hai ragione : il gioco è completamente diverso dal precedente.
Il controllo della palla è rivoluzionato . La palla non è piu' incollata
al giocatore che
la controlla (  effetto simile a quello del buon  vecchio 'goal' , vi
ricordate? )
ma deve essere "accompagnata " con i giusti movimenti .
Il takle non e' piu' vincolato al semplice clic mentre si gravita nei
pressi dell'avversario
ma ha successo se la direzione e i tempi dell'intervento sono esatti.
La parte manageriale è sviluppata con un criterio simile a quello di
SWOS : al
posto del denaro ci sono 'le stelle' ma il sistema di base e'
sostanzialmente identico.
La grafica e' curata nei particolari ma leggerina negli effetti : la
differenza tra il gioco
con una vodoo2 e con una normalissima g200 e'  impalpabile.
Gli effetti di luce ed ombra assomigliano purtroppo a quelli
iperrealistici di Actua.
In compenso il terreno di gioco e le ombre sono nei profili molto piu'
belli .
La velocità di gioco anche al minimo sembra esagerata , soprattutto sui
rinvii , che
finiscono nelle braccia del portiere avversario in una frazione di
secondo con la
sensazione comica di giocare in un campo da calcetto.
Quando si controlla la palla appare una barra che permette di dosare la
forza impressa
alla sfera nel momento del tocco. Lo scatto non e' illimitato ma tramite
altra barra in
sovraimpressione e' possiblie prendere atto dell'esaurimento delle
forze.
L'audio e' nella norma e il commento non sembra irritante come quello di
Bulgarelli
( forse solo perche' e' in inglese ) .
E' possibile giocare per piu' di una stagione e creare giocatori
editandoli .
Potremo cosi' 'trasformare ' la lega inglese nel nostro campionato :-)
Le prime impressioni sono tutto sommato abbastanza buone : se non altro
non
ho gettato 90 sacchi per una mera riedizione di fifa99 ma per un gioco
che ha
tutta l'aria di mettere a dura prova anche videogiocatori discretamente
esperti.
Queste sono considerazioni provvisorie , presto saro' in grado ,insieme
ad altri ,
di provarlo a fondo , scoprendo pregi e difetti del nuovo ( e
inaspettato) prodotto.
Nella scatola c'e una piccola pubblicazione sulle prossime uscite EA .
Entro
la fine di settembre uscirà il gioco FifaManager2000.
Ciao

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