FIFA Street 4

[Smilenator]

FIFA STREET

A thread to discuss all about EA's latest attempt to make a successful street football game.

Release date(UK): March 16th

Demo to be released on February 29th PS3
February 28th Xbox

 

[Smilenator]

Already lots of videos up on YouTube showing some of the sweet skill moves.

Looking much more realistic than FIFA Street 3 (which was awful.)

 

[Smilenator]

PS3 Cover

 

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[Smilenator]

FIFA Street Achievements List
Got any Nutmeg? 15G
Panna your first Opponent

Rush Keepers! 25G
Score a goal while controlling your Goal Keeper

Very Entertaining 25G
Earn at least 1500 Style Points without losing possession

Sightseer 25G
In any game mode win a match/event in 50% of the venues as the lead profile

Globetrotter 95G
In any game mode win a match/event in every venue as the lead profile

Geometry was good for something 20G
Score a goal by deflecting the ball off a wall

Ultimate Humiliation 15G
Score a goal with a Panna

Are we there yet? 10G
Reach the World Tour map screen for the first time as the lead profile

New Champion 15G
Win a World Tour Tournament for the first time as the lead profile

Regional Street Champion 20G
Win stage 1 of World Tour as the lead profile

National Street Champion 25G
Win stage 2 of World Tour as the lead profile

European Champion 50G
Win stage 3 of World Tour as the lead profile

World Grand Champion 100G
Win stage 4 of World Tour as the lead profile

World Tour Around the World 30G
Win any World Tour tournament Online as the lead profile

Challenge the pros 20G
Win a street challenge against an authentic club team in stage 4 of world tour as the lead profile

Street Legend 20G
Defeat Messi in a street challenge game as the lead profile

Local Heroes 25G
Win the final national tournament with at least 8 created players on your team as the lead profile

Who brought the snacks? 15G
Win a tournament with a local Co-Op player as the lead profile

Mighty Heroes 40G
Have a team with at least 8 created players that are level 50 or higher as the lead profile

Career Milestone 25G
Score 100 goals with your created player in any game modes as the lead profile

Mister Entertainment 25G
Earn 100,000 Style Points with your created player in any game mode as the lead profile

Attributed Success 25G
Upgrade one of your created players attributes to Max as the lead profile

It’s Tricky 20G
Unlock 10 tricks on a created player as the lead profile

5 Tool Player 50G
Upgrade 5 attributes on a created player to maximum as the lead profile

Time to Celebrate 15G
Unlock a created player celebration and perform it in game as the lead profile

Shopping Spree 10G
Wear an Unlocked item in any game mode as the lead profile

Moving on up 25G
In a street season obtain promotion to the next division as the lead profile

Online Enthusiast 20G
Win a game of 5 a side, 6 a side and Futsal online as the lead profile

Online Cup Champion 25G
Win any Online Cup as the lead profile

Online Dominance 100G
Win all 9 online cups as the lead profile

Video Proof 20G
Upload a saved video as the lead profile

Friendly Publicity 15G
Watch a video posted by one of your Friends as the lead profile

Making new friends 15G
Add a new Friend using the Friend Recommendation feature as the lead profile

Watching Film 20G
Watch a gameplay tutorial video as the lead profile

 

[Brend]

Might give this a bash, hate FIFA normally though. Love the first FIFA Street, good for a laugh.

 

[Smilenator]

Demo Details

Teams:
Manchester City
AC Milan
Adidas All Stars
A team of real world street footballers

Game Modes:
5-a-Side
Freestyle Mode (Has to be unlocked)

We will also be able to start the World Tour (career) and create our own team.

 

[RYAN]

Demo Details

Teams:
Manchester City
AC Milan
Adidas All Stars
A team of real world street footballers

Game Modes:
5-a-Side
Freestyle Mode (Has to be unlocked)

We will also be able to start the World Tour (career) and create our own team.

i'll give the demo a go, only fifa street i particularly enjoyed was the first. so i hope this turns out decent.
i like the more realistic feel and look to it, plus proper futsal courts to. looks promising.

 

[Smilenator]

The arena that will be used in the demo will be the Amsterdam Square Arena.

 

[Smilenator]

This is a video that walks through the menus and shows the teams that are available in the game.

 

[Phoenix]

I am really looking forward to this.

Loved the 1st game, the 2nd was ok, but the 3rd was really bad.

Now, the 4th looks very promising and i've pre-ordered the steelbook edition.

Come on 15th march!!!

 

[Ellis]

*grumbles in satisfaction and goes to amazon to purchase *

 

[Smilenator]

You guys can add me if you like, because I think we will have access to some online features in the demo.

 

[Smilenator]

Downloading demo now.

 

[Phoenix]

Downloading demo now.

Yup, me too. 👍

 

[Christian_C]

I liked the Fifa series but stopped buying them after '11 as I didn't play them with my friends as much on '11 as I had on '10 and the game itself wasn't much fun for me.

After playing the demo though this is much closer to the kind of football I enjoy and is a lot of fun. I think I'll be getting this, the only downside is the lack of adjustment when it comes to the settings but I think that is just for the demo.

I'd recommend this, even if you don't like football it's quite the blast to play and seems a lot more casual than the normal Fifa series.

 

[Smilenator]

My Thoughts on the Demo

I am a big fan of the street ball control it allows us to finally have near total control over the ball, and I can see a modified form of it being introduced into the main series soon.

I am finding that the skill moves are relatively hard to pull off, however I am mostly using street ball control and using that to beat players.

I think the game is set up to make it quite easy to look "good", some people might think that this is bad and should be the reserve of the "top players", I however believe that this helps to give it more casual pick and play feel, which should be good for offline multiplayer.

However, with the limited scope of the demo it is hard to fully judge the game we only have one game mode and have to play on the easiest setting.

 

[Phoenix]

After playing the demo for a few matches, im interested in how the whole world tour mode works.

I also fired up my PS2 with the original Fifa Street (again), and I must say the fun factor is bigger in the original one then the demo, but will have to play the full game first before I conclude anything.

 

[bombe32]

After I tried the demo I just had the feeling that I need more! I'm definately getting this game, it's extremely fun to play the game and there's a huge number of teams compared to the last FIFA Street games they did.

If you haven't seen it, the squads can be seen here. No big players missing, although I, as a Danish Liverpool fan, am missing Daniel Agger. It's some decent rosters the teams have and should be more than enough to have some fun custom teams.

 

[Smilenator]

Good write up on the demo here:
http://fifasoccerblog.com/blog/xaors-corner-fifa-street/

 

[bombe32]

I wonder which demo that is, because I definately haven't got an opportunity to play online.

Besides, I think this game is much better offline than online. I remember FIFA Street 3 online. Damn, worst piece of s*** online and there was NO customization or career mode like the World Tour. This time, however, there's a World Tour mode with lots of customization, so I think it's going to be good.

That guy is seriously pessimistic, but I agree with him. From playing the demo I also thought that online could be a disaster. Air beats are much more effective than anything else and defence is going to be a nightmare.

 

[Smilenator]

That guy has a series of articles on that website most of them are about the main series and he is even more pessimistic about that, yet most of his comments are fair.

 

[Phoenix]

Got my copy in the mail last night, but didn't have time to put it in until later tonight. (At work yet)

Looking forward to use my steelbook copy.

 

[Christian_C]

Yeah, don't buy this. Just don't.

There's a reason why the demo was only able to be played on easy mode. When you fire up the full game and put it on hard you will soon reason (when you reach tournaments) that the AI develops this unmatchable ability to super glue the ball to its players feet.

It becomes near impossible to get within 1 foot of the ball as for some reason your player will not move any closer than this to try and challenge for the ball unless you sprint directly at the player. In the event the miraculous does happen and you do challenge for the ball, one of three things will happen, you will either:

1. Mysteriously just fall over for no apparent reason and the opponent will continue un-phased by your actions (usually then scoring a goal)

2. Your player will successfully get the ball (wow!) and then the opponent will immediately spin towards the ball and somehow regain it leaving you thinking "how did he spin that fast?"

3. Both players will fall over and another player will collect the ball.

Occasionally a magical fourth event happens where you do actually get the ball and manage to maintain control of it! However this is rare.

Once you have the ball the battle is however far from over as the skill moves you are supposed to use to make it past the opponents are 90% of the time useless with the exception of the chip moves where you will normally manage to 'skill' the player. Usually however all that happens is when you meet an opponent a clumsy scene happens and you are left without the ball.

Trying to score is just as bad as it seems the opponent goal keeper is more than 5 times the match for your own and will save anything aside from perhaps a comet. Your keeper however will make even the worst of your mates look like a prime pick for his replacement as he is worse than useless. Normally he just makes failed dives and misses playground style shots.

All this makes for a frankly 🤬 experience offline, play the tournaments online though and you will go up against opponents playing to the same rules as you are and will have vastly increased chances of winning!

In short, the AI sucks and as you increase the difficulty the AI remains the same apart from its ability to somehow glue the ball to its shoes and invent a 'safe' halo around itself preventing you from tackling it.

 

[bombe32]

I was looking forward to this game, but as soon as people who had the early release reported back, I could see EA screwing this up.

I think the most important thing to mention is that in online you will only be able to use the team you use in World Tour. So basically, all the licensed teams are useless. Add that you can only play 6v6, 5v5 and Futsal, tricks are to no use. Panna, last man standing, freestyle - gone from online play.
That's silly.

I'll pick it up when it get's cheap (won't be too long, I guess) and have some fun with it. I've learned my lesson from Dirt 3 and other titles: Don't pre-order, trailers, demos etc only exist to trick you.