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FIFA 12

by Electronic Arts
 Ages 3 and Over
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

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  • Platform:   Nintendo 3DS
  • BBFC Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Suitable for 12 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 12. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 12 years of age or over.
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Platform: Nintendo 3DS | Edition: Standard Edition
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  • ASIN: B0054I7TH0
  • Release Date: 30 Sep 2011
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,255 in PC & Video Games (See Top 100 in PC & Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo 3DS | Edition: Standard Edition

Manufacturer's Description

FIFA 12 brings to the pitch the game-changing new Player Impact Engine, a physics engine built to deliver real-world physicality in every interaction on the pitch. Experience the way real-world footballers challenge each other for the ball, win possession, and test each other physically. Enjoy an infinite variety of natural and believable outcomes in every collision. Players feel more resilient, push and pull during the fight for possession, and recover from light challenges more easily.

Revolutionary gameplay innovations make FIFA 12 deeper and more engaging. All-new Precision Dribbling creates a higher fidelity of touch on the ball for better control in tight spaces, more time to make decisions on attack, and more control over the pace of the game. Innovations in attack are balanced by a re-designed defending mechanism, making it as skilful and meaningful as real-world football. With all-new Tactical Defending, positioning and intercepting passes are as important as tackling. Tactics and timing are crucial. Plus, CPU players have been infused with Pro Player Intelligence, a self-awareness that enables them to behave and make decisions based on their own skills and tendencies, and gives them the aptitude to understand the strengths and weaknesses of teammates in every situation.

Introducing EA SPORTS Football Club—the heartbeat of FIFA 12—a live service connecting players to the real-world game with fresh, new content all the time, enabling them to support their favourite club and connect and compete with their friends, rivals and millions of other players around the world. Additional features will be revealed in the months ahead.

Key Features:

  • Player Impact Engine—Two years in development, the new physics engine is built to deliver real-world physicality in every interaction on the pitch. Experience an infinite variety of natural and believable outcomes in every contact. Players feel more resilient on the ball, push and pull during the fight for possession, and recover from light challenges more easily, preserving their natural momentum.
  • Pro Player Intelligence—CPU players have been infused with self-awareness and aptitude, enabling them to make decisions based on their own skills as well as the strengths and attributes of their teammates. Players who possess exceptional vision, for example, will see opportunities for through balls that other players won’t. Real Madrid’s Kaká will be more likely—and quicker—to pick out a run from a teammate farther away than a player with poorer vision. Additionally, teams will vary their attack based on the strengths of their players on the pitch, and the weaknesses of opposing players, creating a more authentic experience and greater variety of matches.
  • Tactical Defending—Re-designed defending mechanism fundamentally changes the approach to defending by placing equal importance on positioning, intercepting passes and tackling at the right moment. Tactics and timing are crucial.
  • Precision Dribbling—Enjoy new ways to take on opponents, more time on the ball to make decisions, and complete control of the pace of the game. Utilize close dribble touches in tight spaces, on the wings, and even while fending off an opponent.
  • EA SPORTS Football Club—For the first time ever, everything within FIFA 12, and against friends, is measured in a meaningful way. Every match matters, all season long. Earn experience points and level up to build status. Track friends, challenges and status through the web. Share and compare accomplishments and spread the news on social channels like Facebook. Plus, real-world storylines will drive content. Gamers will relive crucial real-world football events through regular challenges so that FIFA 12 will look, feel and play like the real-world season.
  • Support Your Club—A central experience in EA SPORTS Football Club that enables fans to represent their club and compete against rival clubs in everything they do in FIFA 12. Earn club points and lift your club higher in the Support Your Club League Tables or help them avoid relegation. Virtual league tables are reset each week to create new challenges, renewed rivalries, and fresh storylines.
  • True Injuries—The Player Impact Engine monitors contact between players in real-time, analyzing the force of the collision and impact on the body to detect real injuries, creating a deeper more challenging Career Mode. Manage new types of injuries and the risk of sending a player onto the pitch who isn’t fully healed.
  • New Presentation—Matches now have a real-world broadcast look and feel. Dramatically improved lighting, more authentic crowds, and new default camera make every game feel special.
  • Easier Navigation—Redesigned menu system for fast and easy navigation, featuring customizable Main Menu based on arena player, Virtual Pro and favorite club.
  • Complete Authenticity—Over 500 officially licensed clubs and more than 15,000 players.

Product Description

Please note this game requires a 3DS console

  • Player Impact Engine: Two years in development, the new physics engine is built to deliver real-world physicality in every interaction on the pitch. Experience an infinite variety of natural and believable outcomes in every contact. Players feel more resilient on the ball, push and pull during the fight for possession, and recover from light challenges more easily, preserving their natural momentum
  • Pro Player Intelligence: CPU players have been infused with self-awareness and aptitude, enabling them to make decisions based on their own skills as well as the strengths and attributes of their teammates. Players who possess exceptional vision, for example, will see opportunities for through balls that other players won't. Real Madrid's Kaká will be more likely-and quicker-to pick out a run from a teammate farther away than a player with poorer vision. Additionally, teams will vary their attack based on the strengths of their players on the pitch, and the weaknesses of opposing players, creating a more authentic experience and greater variety of matches
  • Tactical Defending: Fundamentally changes the approach to defending by placing equal importance on positioning, intercepting passes and tackling at the right moment. Tactics and timing are crucial
  • Precision Dribbling: Enjoy new ways to take on opponents, more time on the ball to make decisions, and complete control of the pace of the game. Utilize close dribble touches in tight spaces, on the wings, and even while fending off an opponent
  • True injuries: The Player Impact Engine monitors contact between players in real-time, analyzing the force of the collision and impact on the body to detect real injuries, creating a deeper more challenging Career Mode. Manage new types of injuries and the risk of sending a player onto the pitch who isn't fully healed

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant after a couple of tweaks... 8 Oct 2011
Platform for Display:Nintendo 3DS|Edition:Standard Edition
Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   
This is a very good game, but to get the most you need to make some changes. Personally I changed the controls slightly (switched to an alternate scheme) and then I changed the camera to tele and zoomed out a bit.

Once you do that, then the gameplay is a lot better. Gameplay is a lot slower than some recent fifa's on other consoles, however, personally I think it makes for a better fluid passing game, and it's also more realistic.

The other camera modes are fine for street games, and the 3d effect works well giving a great sense of depth, unlike many other 3ds games, it does add something to the game - but for the normal matches, I'd turn the slider off, as it doesn't add anywhere near as much.

The new feature of being able to shoot by touching a virtual net on the bottom screen works really well sometimes. When outside the box looking for a pot-shot, or at the edge of the area, it's well worth it, but for aerial balls and placed finishes in the box (where you can't take time out to look at the bottom screen) it's best to stick to the buttons.

A plethora of teams and leagues can be found and they've crammed a lot onto the card in terms of game modes too, however the other reason this is a 4 star game for me is the lack of online functionality. This isn't a rushed game, EA have spent time and it's really telling they developed it specifically for the 3ds, but as a result of that - the lack of online is slightly more annoying, however, there are online squad and kit updates for free, which is a plus.

In the career mode, you can get a deep lasting experince, however, the transfer system is a bit simplified and you can only buy/sell a certain number of players per window (you get a certain number of "bids") however it's compensated for by a good development system, and lots of things like training, scouting, street match friendlies etc

I wouldn't recommend this for kids, because it might be fiddly for them to set it up right, and as I said, you need to make alterations to get the most out of it, and besides, they'd probably prefer a more fast paced arcadey game than the slower tempo of this game, but for teens and up, this is a cracking football game for the 3ds, and is comfortably better than PES, providing a richer more realistic experience jam packed with modes and features, with online multiplayer it would be a 5 Star game, but it's definitely worth the purchase without it, and so I'm giving it 4 Stars.

UPDATE: Having played this for a while now - it's not as good as I first thought, the gameplay becomes quite one-dimensional and the slow tempo becomes.... lethargic.... I'd actually recommend PES 2012 3ds ahead of it now.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Good But Frustrating In Equal Measure 8 Oct 2011
Platform for Display:Nintendo 3DS|Edition:Standard Edition
Fun: 4.0 out of 5 stars   
Some things in life just have to happen every year. It's tradition, and without those traditions there would be nothing but chaos in the world. I'm talking about things like eating chocolate eggs at Easter; giving and receiving presents at Christmas; and someone posting at least one funny Youtube Poop video during the year. Another tradition you can add to that list is the annual release of the FIFA Football video game on numerous games consoles.

So here we are with FIFA 12, and to be more specific the 3DS version. EA Sports have managed to cram a lot of teams, nations, modes and cup competitions onto the little 3DS card; and now we're gonna look at the main talking points. Through all the modes there are basically two types of football matches you can play: 11 vs. 11 and Streets. Streets is a five-a-side game where you have a small pitch. There's no throw-ins or corner kicks since the pitch is surrounded by walls. The action is thick and fast, and in most games there are plenty of goals. The five-a-side game is actually very addictive, and you may come to like it more than the 11 vs. 11 game.

But 11 vs. 11 is still there for the traditionalists. A full sized grass pitch with proper rules, proper football, proper passion. The gameplay is impressively realistic. Players will hustle and bustle for the ball; bad tackles will result in a yellow or even a red card; and you have pass the ball around a bit in order to create chances. Not all of them will result in a goal, but it is a very rewarding experience when you do find the back of the net.

The games on the full sized pitches are accompanied by excellent commentary from Clive Tyldesley and Andy Townsend, who clearly express excitement when a goal is scored in the last minute, or disappointment when a game is turning into a bore-draw (0-0). It's too bad that the graphics don't match up to the commentary. More on that later.

There are two modes in particular that will grab your attention. The first of which is Be-A-Pro, where you have the opportunity to rise up the football ranks quicker than Chris Smalling. Here you can create you very own player with your preferable hairstyle, skin tone and football boots. Starting out in local five-a-side games you can work your way up to proper club football and then to the national side; and you do this by performing well in games and earning XP points to improve your stats, and fame points by gaining personal achievements (e.g: not using any sliding tackles). During games you only control one player: your own creation. While there are button commands that allow you to call for a pass or a cross when you're not in possession of the ball, you're teammates have about as much intelligence as Peter Griffin.

There are many instances where the opposition have the ball, one of your defenders is really close, but makes no attempt to tackle the opposing player whatsoever. There are also moments when your teammates attempt to play the ball to you when you didn't call for it and you're surrounded by three defenders, resulting in possession being easily lost. OK, so this mode is supposed to be all about you, but a little bit of brains and teamwork isn't gonna cause the world to come to an end, is it?

The second attention-grabbing mode is the Career mode. Here you pretty much have a player-manager role. Choose your desired club and then work through the seasons which include both league and cup matches. You make money for winning matches as well as playing at home, and how much you actually earn depends on what club you're managing and which division you're playing in. There's a fair amount of depth in the Career mode with lots of things for you to do, such as: deciding on the starting line up; buying and selling players; hiring staff such as trainers and scouts; and arranging friendly matches to help build up the stats of your weaker players. A fair amount of patience is required for this mode as there are a fair number of loading times between the menus and matches, and vice-versa. But if you do show patience this mode can be a rewarding experience as you slowly build up the stats of both your players and your club.

In terms of the graphics this 3DS version was always gonna have its work cut out to match up to the versions seen on the PS3 and X-Box 360. Even so you can't help but notice the bad things about them. Player movements can be very jerky and stuttery, both of which are at their worst when a goal is scored and the goal scorer does their chosen celebration. Close up shots of players are not that great either. The kits are blurred and sometimes it's difficult to make out the sponsorship deals on them.

While you can clearly tell the difference between Wayne Rooney and Theo Walcott, the player's faces are something of a gruesome sight. While creating myself in Be-A-Pro, I searched high and low through the available options in order to give myself the best looking face possible; but I still ended up looking uglier than Shrek after botched plastic surgery. One other thing that got under my skin was that sometimes the game will crash when you score a goal, forcing you to reset the 3DS. It's very frustrating and it's something you should be wary of if you do decide to purchase this game.

FIFA 12 on the 3DS is a football game that has its good moments and it can be enjoyable. However players will have to dig deep and work hard in order to find that enjoyment. There's no denying that this game has a fair number of faults, and if EA Sports decides to release FIFA 13 on the 3DS next year (smart money is they will!) then they've got a lot of mistakes to learn from here in order to make that edition good. The final score from me for FIFA 12 is a fun rating of 4-Stars and an overall rating of 3-Stars.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Delivers as advertised 15 May 2012
Platform for Display:Nintendo 3DS|Edition:Standard Edition
Fun: 3.0 out of 5 stars   
My previous Fifa game was Fifa 98, and to be honest I don't think much has changed since then. I suppose it's all about getting the latest team and player lists, with updated sponsors and competition line-ups. So for that reason, this game delivers.

The commentary is OK but, I suspect that in order to save space, a little sparse sometimes. I struggled to feel the tension of playing in the cup finals though, for some reason the build-up in the competition just doesn't seem as tense as in other sports games.

All in all, not a bad option if you require your footy fix on the train or bus, the graphics are good (PS2-ish), the 3D is really cool but, as usual, not really important.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good game
My 8yr old grandson who now understands the rules of the game gets a lot of fun from this game. Better this than shooting games.
Published 1 month ago by Andrea Davis
4.0 out of 5 stars fun
kids love it and enjoy this very much.
its fun to play and easy to understand also affordable to buy.
Published 2 months ago by Ms. E. Hussain
5.0 out of 5 stars Nintendo 3ds
My grandson really wanted this for his new Nintendo 3ds.I was delighted to find it at such a good price. It arrived quickly and in time for Christmas! Thankyou.
Published 3 months ago by V.B
5.0 out of 5 stars great game
i find the game changes from fifa 11 is more fun i play dis every week i find it so good
Published 8 months ago by toube mohez
5.0 out of 5 stars fifa 12
its very good my sun had it on xbox360 it was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hard to score a goal and he was not able to save it but now we have it on 3ds it is munch... Read more
Published 10 months ago by salubrious sue
4.0 out of 5 stars Good for the handheld and for nintendo
I recently bought this as i wanted to have a decent football game for my handheld, not like past nintendo handheld console football games which are very tedious with little options... Read more
Published 10 months ago by JW18
5.0 out of 5 stars Great game, perfect for Fifa on the go
I love the gameplay mechanics and the fact that you get all the players names regularly updated through the software updates. Cannot recommend this game enough. Read more
Published 12 months ago by technojunkie
1.0 out of 5 stars Fifa becomes 3d
I have been let down by FIFA 12 and was shocked to see how terrible it was despite having features that should be good

The game modes on FIFA 12 are:

Kick... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Slack
5.0 out of 5 stars This is one for people who enjoy playing football
I bought this for my son and he enjoyed it so much that I bought for the xbox as well. Really good graphics. The game arrived the day after I ordered it so excellent delivery.
Published 15 months ago by Sharon Earle
2.0 out of 5 stars Just a 3D upgrade
The only reason you should get this game is if you are a fan of the FIFA series and you want to see whats it is like in 3D or if you are unable to get the game on PS3/XBOX360. Read more
Published 16 months ago by pucksy1985
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