City players learn off fifa?

[pablozabaleta]

anyone ever played FIFA with 4 friends against the CPU?...it's really fucking difficult and takes loads of team work and you genuinely celebrate like lunatics when you score!

This is so true!!

When me and 3 mates play against the computer it is ridiculously hard. You have to think about every pass and move you make otherwise you get smashed especially on legendary

 

[blue_soundwave]

Just about to go and enlist in the army, I've played enough COD so I must have a 'shooting brain'.

By the way, we're sorted if aliens invade lads.

 

[yarny101]

Just about to go and enlist in the army, I've played enough COD so I must have a 'shooting brain'.

By the way, we're sorted if aliens invade lads.

LOL! Them zombies don't stand a chance

 

[Why Always Ste]

LoL, First Lesson learnt off Fifa:

Try and play for either R.Madrid or Barca.

Second Lesson:

Quit if you're losing.

if all else fails:

Unplug the Ethernet cable.

 

[Jackson-ctid]

To be a good fifa player, you need to have a good footballing brain, you need to know the right passes, look out for who to pass to, know who has what skills etc.

I and a lot of my friends have been playing fifa for ages and I notice similarities in the way we play and the way we play for real.

I reckon playing Fifa could well help a player develop.

Laughable statement.

Out of me and my mates, the best Fifa player is the one who spends more time on his Xbox than the rest of us and has no interest in real football and never has had. I'd put money on him beating most pros to be honest, a good footballing brain isn't going to beat a guy who'll put in 3 or 4 hours practice a day.

It's a computer game, all football games have what I call 'automatic goals' and Fifa is no different.

I hate shattering illusions but just because you're good at something in a computer game doesn't mean it's the same in reality.

In fact I blame Fifa and Football Manager for the alarming rise in self appointed 'football experts' who can wax lyrical about 17yr old foreign lads they've never seen play and questioning why Mancini hasn't adopted their own FM tactic which has seen MCFC go unbeaten for 2000 games in all competitions.

No shit the person who spends most time on it will be better than the rest of you but I'm talking about physically active people who already know how to play football, playing FIFA can develop a footballing brain in regards to runs, passing, etc.

You've completely twisted what I said, I didn't say people who were good at fifa would be good at football IRL. I said that similarities can exist and fifa does well to replicate real life in terms of passing movements and set pieces, etc.

And to the idiot who thought it'd be hilarious to compare COD to actual war, yeah... that's not quite what I was talking about ;)

 

[kp789]

lol at jack wilshire having to be subtitled

Brilliant.

 

[n_mcfc]

I think those with a better footballing brain would be better at Fifa, personally.

It'd be an interesting experiment to take, say, 10 people who had never played on the game before, 5 footballers (not professional, just have a footballing brain) and 5 other people who have little or no interest in football, and I'd presume those with the footballing brain would be better and develop quicker.

I don't actually think the players interviewed believe that Fifa helps them. EA Sports basically gave them a chunk of money to answer a question, and they couldn't exactly say, 'No, it doesn't help at all' could they?

 

[element_mcfc]

hopefully they dont take it 2 seriously, it is a bit of a scripted fukin game!?!@£@

 

[Pringletelli]

FIFA just takes practice. As a FIFA player myself I know that:

- Most of the time your shot will be saved if you go across the keeper.
- Most of the time your cross will meet it's target, and it's almost impossible to stop a player crossing the ball.
- Most of the time if you cut inside and curl it, the ball will go in the far corner.
- Most of the time you'll score a free-kick if you use the same technique over and over again.
- If you do a one-two, the defender will just wander out of position leaving one of the players completely open.

As well as the above five, there are just two many repetitive things about the game, so many goals are exact replicas of each other. Most of these things won't happen in real life so it doesn't help in the aspect of actually improving your game. The only thing it actually helps with would be team bonding and communication, eg 'you go to that man, I'll cover' etc.

 

[Clubber]

It may help slightly, but I doubt very much it would make you a better player.

To start with, when you play, you don't have a birds eye view.

Maybe it will help with speed of thought and hand eye coordination, but this is applicable for any game.

 

[WhoLetDeJongOut]

Fifa 12 Achievment: Win a match against Man United with Howard Webb as referee.