The problems concerning the control and spongy kinks regarding the gameplay I do not want to mention here, but I want to pick out aspects 3, showing that FIFA has 09 nothing to do with football.
1. The time is stopped at markdowns and impulses. Are we now at Hockey?
2. The passive offside rule is completely ignored - even if a player is away for example on the wing and the pass is clearly passive on the striker caught.
3. When programming the commentators clearly wrong variables were installed: In the registry of the 6-0 6-1 falls in the 88th minute and the commentator is "that could be the turning point" - or at the registry of 2-0 there is a Penalty and there is "now he has the chance to score the equalizer."
These are only 3 errors, but after a few games - combined with all the shortcomings in the gameplay and tactical - cause arises no real fun. Not later than in the moment when you look at his underdog team won the CL title and to a black and white newspaper page (which incidentally designed exactly the same every time CL title), is after the game all the way after each other game. No Cup, no team photo, no extra animations, no commentators who mention the title once. In terms of long-term motivation is here at least for each pass. What I do not understand: in NHL09 I get in person at the animations and celebrations at winning the Stanley Cup goosebumps - ie EA it can actually, but when FIFA was nothing like realized. Why? Probably because here a totally unloving designed commercial product has been implemented, what will indeed sell anyway.
Too bad what happened to FIFA now.