Fifa 09 manual xbox 360 pro#

Think finesse shooting, but straight and more powerful. Hold the finesse shot button (the default is R1/RB) and press shoot.įed up of hitting the ball over the bar with rubbish players, even when you’re in and around the box? If you double-tap the shoot button, you’re filling up the shoot bar as little as possible with that first tap, which will keep the ball low but strike the shot hard. When you’re one-on-one with the keeper, try using a finesse shot instead of a normal one to curl the ball past the keeper. When playing friends I’ve been complaining a lot about not being able to dribble around players then, I slowed down my passing and started letting go of sprint more often, and I’ve found myself jinking past players a lot more easily (without even using the knock-ahead stick). Let go of sprint when you’re in a shooting position Also try experimenting with the pace control button (see below). Let go of the sprint button for a moment, and when you can see that the player has stopped running, belt that ball. If you find a lot of shots are going over the bar, slow down before you shoot. Only use it when you have wide-open space in front of you! In FIFA though, if you sprint all the time, you will occasionally knock the ball forward into the path of the opponent (especially with aerial balls), or screw up a shooting opportunity (see below).

Fifa 09 manual xbox 360 pro#

This is something I keep doing from when I used to play Pro Evolution Soccer / Winning Eleven, where you could sprint for 90 minutes without suffering from any noticeable drawbacks. If you can learn to cope with them, you’re a lot better off using semi/manual controls.ĭon’t hold onto the sprint button all of the time Some other examples semi crossing allows you to put the ball where you want it to go once you’re used to it, with assisted crosses sometimes going to the wrong place or the wrong man, and manual through passing (once mastered) allows you to put a ball where the defence can never reach it. With fully assisted passing, the game decides for you, and it’s not always right. This means you can look at the recipient’s position and judge where it will be best for him to take the ball (taking into account the position of defenders) on his left side or his right side. If you set passing to semi, for example, and there is a player you want to pass to with a defender between you, you can guide the ball just slightly onto the left or right side. The default configuration is all-assisted, but assisted isn’t the be-all and end-all. In FIFA you can set the controls to be manual, semi or assisted.

Up for grabs today are some FIFA 09 hints and tips from me I can’t claim to be the world’s best player but I’m playing the game every single minute of my spare time at the moment, so I think I’m qualified enough to hand over these handy little hints to you that I’ve been picking up since release!