FIFA 13 (Xbox 360)

After buying FIFA on release day, I wanted to give it a week to write my review. After through playing of every game-mode, this is the conclusion I have come to.Gameplay:The controversial First-Touch is a great addition to the game, if sometimes over-powered with lower league teams. It really gives a realistic feel of playing football, as sprinting onto the ball with Theo Walcott will make it immensely difficult to take the ball easily. On the other hand, holding LT gives the FIFA Street-esque dribbling, where your player will make small, controlled touches to take on a defender at close quarters. The Impact Engine has been toned down well, although the Push/Pull function ends with a booking 9.5 times out of 10. Passing build-up play works much better this year, giving a more realistic football experience.Gamemodes:Ultimate Team has lost the single game mode, which is a shame but the seasons is a good idea (albeit with awful matchmaking).Head to Head is the same as it was in 12, only with the handy feature of the game saving squads when you pick your team.Career is vastly improved (even with the dodgy transfers - see Mascherano to United). I've yet to try International Management, but I can't wait to give it a go!Pro Clubs is improved, and is still my favourite gamemode. The seasons feature gives a much more long-lasting and satisfying experience, although only having cup windows is a bit annoying.Skill Games are a great addition, even though they aren't too difficult to complete. The leaderboard feature gives it longevity, and most are fun enough to come back to to hone your skills.Other Features:The EASFC catalogue is a great idea, especially with the 10,000 free credits. The only downside is that if the EASFC servers go down as they did today, your unlocked celebrations and boosts don't work.Matchday is a good idea, although I don't have much interest in playing Kick-Off matches after the first day.In other news, the servers are still poor and grass is green.Overall:The biggest fault of this game is EA, with the poor servers and need to fiddle. The game itself is fantastic though, and has room to improve. Bring on FIFA 14!

If you like Fifa then no doubt you will love this. If you like Pro Evo then no doubt you will never go back to it. Improved in ways that you don't even think about. Ultimate team could be sold on it's own. The standard of it is brilliant. It's own season mode, on and offline really adds depth. Packs have got better and playing your mates has got easier. You can get so immersed in this that you forget about life.The other game modes briliant as well. The seasons online was already great before but it seems they have tweaked the difference in divisions enough now for it to feel like you are the underdog when you have been promoted.Season mode better than ever. Transfers are really top quality now, some players really are hard to buy.Gameplay tweaked to be great now. Morale is a huge addition. When you go one nil down you can feel your players get sluggish and lose that edge to their game. Vice-versa when you are winning. Crossing has been sorted out now, you can actually get on the end of them from the wings. Shooting is very saucy, can score some wonder goals when you get into.Too much to cover to be honest Just buy it, if you read up to here why are you hesitating so long? Sort it out and add to basket.

The game itself is fantastic the concept of the different features such as ultimate team and pro clubs is fantastic, I consider myself to be a serious gamer in the likes of call of duty and games like it but I have never played football games such as FIFA. After being told and told and told to get this game I finally decided to get it, I can honestly say that it was a good idea as I love ultimate team and the other features of this game, the game hasn't left my Xbox for over a week now. However, I have found on call of duty I get very angry which is evident when you look at how many controllers I have broken this year and can safely say that FIFA 13 has never made me so angry in my life. I don't know why it makes me like this as I know I am bad at the game to start with, it is probably because I am used to winning on call of duty and to suddenly keep losing is very annoying. So to conclude, the game is very good but do not get it is you get very angry with games very easily because you will...