the forward 20 yards away is selected instead of the imposing centre back who is only five yards away from the onrushing striker. The wonder goals you can create are very satisfying whilst the inability to close players down will get annoying, especially when the wrong player is selected to do the closing down – i.e. The simplified controls make for very entertaining and frustrating games. It’s the same with shooting, although the slide tackling is enabled by shaking the Wii Remote. As you can imagine, the controls are very simple, tap the A button and you play a short pass, hold it longer and you’ll launch a 40 yard cross field ball. The control pad is probably the best to play with, although it’s always fun attempting to play FIFA with the Wii Remote & Nunchuk. You can play using the Wii Remote, Nunchuk or control pad. There’s a ‘Streets to Stadiums’ mode where you start your player from the street and try and get them to the peak of the football pyramid, whilst ‘Be a Manager’ is practically the same but with a far greater emphasis on the team. The usual FIFA modes are on offer and will continue to please regular participants. With all that said, I was hopeful this season’s FIFA would be a good game in its own right and maybe be an insight into the future of the series when it transfers to the Wii U.
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The FIFA series on the Wii has always tried to be the quirkier cousin of its bigger console counterparts, simply because the PS3/Xbox 360 versions are so slickly presented that the Wii could never be compared like for like. Unfortunately for systems that are coming to the end of their lifecycle, a lot of stalwart series such as FIFA tend to make versions which are only slight updates/enhancements on the previous versions, because most of the development goes into the versions on the higher end consoles, i.e. New signing FIFA 12 makes its debut on the Wii with the aim of keeping players happy until the impending retirement of the console.