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- FIFA 13 is a strong addition to the franchise from EA. While not a quantum leap from last year's FIFA 12 this year's version refines the experience with a deft touch. FIFA 13 feels more realistic and more unpredictable.
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Oct 21, 2012 · Our Verdict. A still excellent football game that has been overburdened by features and is hungry for some real innovation. PC Gamer's got your back Our experienced team dedicates many hours to...
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By Daniel Krupa
Posted: Sep 20, 2012 5:00 pm
A fine balance trembles at the heart of every sports game. It’s a constant, fiddly calibration to make a game that feels authentic yet also fun and accessible to play. Lean towards the former, and the experience could be as dreary as an afternoon sat on the damp terraces of Grimsby Town; favour the latter, and you might create fantastical fun but soon it’ll feel cheap and unearned.
Saying that, sport is a world in which the fantastical frequently comes to pass. Headlines can’t be written. Tiny Davids slay gigantic franchises. And the reason for these unbelievable headlines? Unpredictability. It’s one of the key innovations of FIFA 13. It’s a risky, potentially game-breaking change, resulting in frustration and irritation, but those of both part of football. Thankfully, the balance is spot-on.
This unpredictability is at its most obvious when it comes to first-touch controls. Your players are no longer endowed with supernatural skill when it comes to taking balls out of the air or running onto passes at speed. If you don’t use your skill, there’s a pretty good chance they’ll fumble the ball and lose possession.
It makes the game immediately less accessible. You’ll groan when your player takes a heavy touch when you’re through on goal, but that’s something which happens every week in the best leagues around the world. Yet it never becomes game-breaking or frustrating, and this is thanks to a rationale behind it all. Several factors conspire to determine the quality of your first-touch: speed of the pass, spin on the ball, the speed and relative skill of the player receiving it. Over time, you’ll come to learn how to improve your first-touch – for instance, don’t run on to a pass at full speed, or perhaps knock it on using the right analogue so you don’t have to take you finger off sprint.
So FIFA 13 is a refinement of a winning formula rather than an entirely new equation. While the gameplay changes are more subtle, they really consolidate upon the success and innovation of FIFA 12. But that success hasn’t bred laziness – there are new features, new services, even new leagues. If you’re a fan of the sport or FIFA in general, it’s ha...
Apr 13, 2016 · FIFA 13 is a strong addition to the franchise from EA. While not a quantum leap from last year's FIFA 12 this year's version refines the experience with a deft touch.
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Nov 21, 2014 · Windows XP/Vista/7. Produced by EA Canada, the game is the next instalment of the FIFA series. In keeping with the series' tradition, players have the opportunity to manage their favourite football teams from dozens of major leagues around the world, as well as national teams.
- Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Sep 24, 2012 · Pros. +. In-depth online connectivity. +. Improved first touch and teammate AI. +. Skill games make an excellent tutorial. Cons. - Physics engine is a little too tweaked. - Career Mode feels too...
Sep 28, 2012 · Read our 'FIFA 13' review to see if the title is a major leap forward for EA Sports' banner franchise or a marginally refined version of last year's formula.
Sep 20, 2012 · The new Skill Games mode in FIFA 13 is exactly the sort of bite-size football challenge that makes smartphone treasures like Flick Kick Football so compulsive - except that it's built on one...
