Tactical Soccer The New Season

WARNING - IMMEDIATE THOUGHTS AFTER 30 MINUTES GAMEPLAY After watching this game for the last day, seeing no reviews of it, i decided to buy it and review it myself. SInce my PC is finding a hard time running it, i suspect a need for optimization. I have a decent computer, and it is still working very hard making it run. Now for the gameplay. pros: Overall a fell like the game has a lot of ambition, and, although i only have about 30 minutes of gameplay being forced to take a break to prevent cpu overheat, i feel as if there are a lot of posibilites in the layout. I think the game wants to focus on the simulation experience, compared to the arcade experience you get from football tactics. A nice feature is that you can practically conrol lines of people at the time. This means you don't have to control movements for all 10 field players at the time. You have a lot of options for passing or shooting the ball, in terms of bending the curve of the pass/shot, and lifting it as well. I really like this since it gives the possibility of shooting in a lot of different ways (to be fair i have only shot the ball once). Cons: As just mentioned i have only been able to make one shot on goal. I find it very hard to pass the ball intuitively around the pitch, while moving players around it. I do hope that it's just a matter of optimizing the players' reactions towards nearby players/the ball. With that said, i think that a good football game would make you want to chase the ball when you lose it. In soccer tactics: new season, it just makes me want to start over because tackling the opposition is really hard and counterintuitive. The interface is REALLY confusing in my opinion. I don't like to compare too much to other games, but since football tactics just came out a month ago, it feels really natural to do so. What i really liked from football tactics, was that you were thrown into a match, and then a tutorial ran alongside this, where you learned the games' different features while playing. Moreover the interface between matches was really easy to understand and get an overview of. In soccer tactics: new season, you're thrown into the game, which has a lot of information that's hard to determain the function of, and if you have questions there's a 20 page manual that you can turn to. All in all i like what i think the game wants to do, and for that i'll give this review the benefit of the doubt, although it is a very small recommendation. in stars i'd be giving it 5,1/10, but keep in mind that i haven't played it for very long.