The framework for the rest of the game is straight out of FIFA 12, with a couple of minor deviations. There are tons and tons of subtle variations to help bamboozle opponents. You can rainbow-flick the ball over your own head from behind with a simple left-then-right gesture, for example, or you can rotate the stick in a 180-degree arc from up to down to perform a flip-flap.
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But the rest of your work is done with the right stick, using a range of increasingly complex fighting game-style gestures that break out all sorts of deception and finesse. There are a few other basic tricks, like a juggle button that sometimes lets you flick the ball over an opponent's head and run past him, and a modifier button that adds a flashy twist to basic passes, lobs and shots, turning them into extravagant Rabona leg-twists and scoops. This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies. With a quick tug of the sprint button you can then escape smoothly in any direction, gliding into space and sometimes breaking out a 'panna', or nutmeg. This is perhaps best illustrated by your most obvious new tool: a close-control shoulder button that plants your standing leg and lets you swizzle the ball around with your other foot using the left analogue stick, dragging it this way and that and pivoting to shield yourself from attackers. This is still heavily exaggerated football where every little thing you do is straight out of a Nike advert, but it's much more grounded in reality. The power bars and signature trick kicks are gone and replaced with something that's more like a simulation.
#FIFA STREET 2012 FULL#
The objective is still to deliver flashy street football full of tricks, feints and individual skill, but the basis this time is less SEGA Soccer Slam or Mario Strikers Charged and more FIFA 12 with the trick stick dialled up to 11. There's no sign of a "4" on the end of this edition, and if we had to guess why then we'd suggest it's because EA Sports has ripped things up and started almost completely anew.
#FIFA STREET 2012 SERIES#
As recently as 2008, when the main FIFA series was already well in the ascendancy, FIFA Street 3 was picking up lukewarm write-ups that faintly praised its "shallow, unpretentious fun" before giving it 6/10 for being, well, glitzy but superficial. While the FIFA series itself has long since shed its reputation as the glitzy but superficial alternative to proper football simulations, the same cannot be said for FIFA Street.