The first reviews of FIFA 12, including ours, are full of praise for FIFA 12, but the same cannot be said for glitch videos on YouTube which are in the millions of views.
The storm being stirred up by this and numerous other high-view-count videos of a similar content is reminiscent of the reception received by the NBA Elite 11 demo, which got a severe panning by those who downloaded it before the title was disastrously canned forcing EA to sit out of the NBA sim market this year.
But FIFA 12 is far from that disaster. CVG acknowledged the ambitious new Impact Engine's trip-ups in our FIFA 12 review, noting "the occasional Laurel and Hardy moment in the box, when players trip over their downed teammates and flop face-to-arse to the floor."
But as reviewer Tom Pakinkis goes on to state: "FIFA 12's physics engine does substantially more good than harm," adding, "Any moments of farce are infrequent enough to be forgiven and - from a pure enjoyment point of view - only adds to the banter between mates."
If anything, check out the video below with a view of its comedy, rather than a reason not to buy what is undoubtedly a stunning football sim.
Comments
23 comments so far...
KesMonkey on 25 Sep '11 said:
FIFA 12 - clearly the most hilarious football game of all time.
damoxuk on 25 Sep '11 said:
Actually pretty damn funny. More clips like these please.
TheLastDodo on 25 Sep '11 said:
I'm glad CVG brought this to my attention.
I'm no longer buying FIFA 12 solely because of videos like this.
DannyIsBatman on 26 Sep '11 said:
But then watch this vid, looking fantastic in my opinion.
I wonder if people stopped buying the Assassins Creed games when they found out some of the Guards glitched like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4lDaYdM ... re=related
funnyguy2001 on 26 Sep '11 said:
This video is s**te....I don't trust it...It comes from Russia. Nothing trustworthy comes out of Russia. If it has Russia in the video i'ts dodgy!
pRM8 on 26 Sep '11 said:
Watched the video the first time round, pretty hilarious. Wish I could replicate some of those moves on my demo
Imaduck on 26 Sep '11 said:
If the actual finished product was that good, I'd buy it.
iucidium on 26 Sep '11 said:
Inappropriate dives.
this is a true football sim!
humanhand on 26 Sep '11 said:
Pretty good stuff.
Old Skool Gamer on 26 Sep '11 said:
Nothing's perfect, at least they are funny like Oblivion!!!
SpinMeRightNow on 26 Sep '11 said:
Gonna hold my money till they fix it! lol those vids are hilarious!
kirankara on 26 Sep '11 said:
I take it , this comment is dripping with sarcasm??? Lol
It is pretty disgusting tbf dude, there's clips with goalkeepers picking up ball and bench pressing a player up in air in process , messi injuring himself in a celebration and being unable to continue, a player missing a free kick completely, a player running into the referee as he takes a free kick , a player briefly making contact and pirouetting in air like hes been thrown by a tornado.
I have gave on preorder at tesco ( will cancel If supermarkets get game on a good deal) , but I really have doubts this year about a lot of the game
kirankara on 26 Sep '11 said:
There's millions of these clips on YouTube , from all round world.
budge on 26 Sep '11 said:
Yep, it looks like modern day football to me but i really think that Messi should be subbed with that leg!
slimify d on 26 Sep '11 said:
that arsenal kick off was a thing of beauty!
i dont mind the glitches so much i just wana be able to tackle someone
KK-Headcharge78 on 26 Sep '11 said:
If this is genuine how the f**k did they miss this in testing? Pretty funny video although Busquets ain't no glitch he goes down more than a cockney cock gobbler on crack.
WHITEyy118 on 26 Sep '11 said:
I have to admit they are funny but it's not stopping me from getting the game. It'll just add a fun factor to it.
It's mainly for tackles and jockying anyway. If you're stupid enough to walk into your own player then you should be punished LOL.
wwaarrddy on 26 Sep '11 said:
Funniest thing I've seen for a while. Well I'll be getting it for sure.
kirankara on 26 Sep '11 said:
The problem lies in the ai players being stupid and running into you!!!
Do we deserve to be punished for their stupidity ??
rub_my_rhubarb69 on 26 Sep '11 said:
I thought Fifa 10 was near perfect, and as much as I enjoyed Fifa 11, I would find myself continually frustrated with exactly this problem.
You make a tackle, and an AI player on your own team will come and collect the ball while the tackler is still on the floor, and the AI player (who you just [i]wish[i] would have stayed where he was) would end up tripping over the tackler, leaving plenty of time for the opposition player to get up, retrieve the ball and continue where he left off.
It happened so frequently and was occassionally responsible for me conceding goals due to my players falling over each other.....but I partly blamed the game and partly put it down to the fact that I always play with lower league teams, so thought maybe it was Fifa's way of making them rubbish.
But it seems that what they've done in Fifa 12 is to make the falls more elaborate and use it as a selling point, highlighting what I've been moaning about as a problem in Fifa 11 for the past year.
gmcb007 on 26 Sep '11 said:
So some of the falls are unjustified and over exagerated? Isn't that just realism?
TheLastDodo on 26 Sep '11 said:
You jest but yep thats exactly what it's like, personally I don't have a problem with it.
s**t happens in FIFA just like s**t happens on a real pitch
The_Inebriator on 26 Sep '11 said:
@ 0:15 That looks just like real football!