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It's put them on the right control stick, so you don't need to be an octopus - no mention of Paul the octopus, please - to pull off some of the best skills in the game. We also like that FIFA 14 has simplified the process of pulling off skill moves. And your pre-match team planning actually becomes much more vital to get right. You will find yourself relying more on certain players for certain actions. While this looks nice, it also has a radical impact on gameplay. Players also now have intertia, and even when you're not controlling them directly, they move in a more realistic fashion than before.

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While a small, nimble player will be able to spin fast and zip up the field. A player with a slow turning ratio in real life, for example, will deliver exactly that visual experience on the virtual pitch. Where there were limited animations for each player before, there are now many more steps between animations and they are determined by more factors and statistics. Called 'Precision Movement' it effectively turns small, virtual lumps of digital clay into moving, breathing footballers. The other very important new technology in FIFA 14 is centred on player animations. It wasn't a goal, but it might as well have been given the emotional response it triggered. It looped, dipped and spun over the outstretched arm of a diving Tim Howard and cannoned off the cross bar. Using Luis Suarez in our very first match of the finished Xbox 360 version, we cut inside an Evertonian right back, and hit the ball with the outside of our right boot.

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We found out ourselves how satisfying these new technologies can be to see and interact with in full force.

Previously, it just wasnРІР‚в„ўt possible to emulate a Christian Ronaldo or Gareth Bale dipping freekick in a FIFA game. Then there is the new ball physics engine, which, when combined with Pure Shot, adds even greater and more realistic ball movement during a hit. The new technology allows players to set themselves and shoot in a way that has never been possible before. They will use the outside of a foot to get a certain curl or dip, and it just feels so very very good. Players' shots are based on balance, on angle, the proximity of other players. Play the game yourself and you'll soon realise that every refinement improves the way the game moves and plays so much that this is indeed a successor worth investing time and money into. Watch the action unfold from behind a player and you might miss the intricacies of each difference. Seemingly small alterations to the graphics and gameplay engine add up to quite a different game experience.

There's the saying, 'The devil is in the detail', and that's the case with FIFA 14. It's a welcome and noticeable improvement.But essentially, there's little to really grab the attention from the off. HyperMotion has been introduced this year and brings with it 4,000 new animations in situations all over the pitch, and you can see the differences everywhere - from shoulder challenges to shots on goal and subsequent celebrations. With it comes simple little tips and tricks you can easily add to your game when in possession it's easy to bring players close to you to support and offload, while you can use L1 (PS) to alert players to go forward - do so by pushing the right analog in the direction desired afterwards.Р”Р„nd yes if you'd still like to unleash the burners, you can double tap R2 and launch the ball right out in front of you for a foot race. There's plenty of opportunity to create chances and score goals the right way, and it's refreshing. I'd jumped straight in expecting the old methods to work, using experience from previous editions, but it was only when I started to slow down myself that the success came.

There's more focus on team build up play, the tempo is slower and your best chances of success are to pass the ball around and work openings, much like how you'd need to do it in real life. Yes, I have been burned online too many times and I'm sour about it. But it's noticeable just how much more real the game feels this year - almost like there's more to it than just passing it to the fast one up front and running through time after time to score.

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