FIFA Soccer 12 Review (PSU.com)

PSU: Releasing a game every year is a mighty challenge for a developer, especially if it’s a sports game that has no campaign or story to differentiate the annual installment. There’s always the risk that the game will grow stale without any substantial tweaks to the gameplay or modes, but there’s almost an equal risk of disenfranchising devoted fans if a studio goes too far too fast. EA Sports released an outstanding soccer (football for the rest of the world) game in 2010, and this year the studio decided it was time to offer sweeping changes to the core gameplay and include its two-year-in-the-making physics engine. The end result provides as much enjoyment off the ball as you’ll have on offense, a more complete career management system, and a physics system that works quite well, but it will likely need some tweaking.