Preview: 5 Ways "FIFA 13" Will Revolutionize The Game

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In past FIFA games, every player from Ronaldo down to the scrub that gets no tick could handle even the most difficult passes like a Hall of Famer. From now on there will be multiple factors that come into play when handling passes on the pitch, including trajectory of ball, velocity of the pass and actual player skill and rating level. Less perfect touches fosters a better balance between attacking and defending making the game more realistic and competitive.

Traditional free kicks are a major part of the sport but as the real game changes, so should the video game. In 13, players can freak walls and adjust kicking configurations to their hearts content.  Last year you could choose to jump the wall only when the ball was kicked, in 13, the wall reforms and you can jump again. Players can also be added or subtracted to the wall if you want. Teams are able to cheat a little bit by creeping the wall up. Be warned, the officials will give a yellow card if you are caught though.

On the flip side, the attacking team can now execute dummy runs with up to three players over the ball, making it possible to create different angles and subsequently more dangerous free kicks. 

EA Canada likens the difference between FIFA 12's "precision dribbling" and FIFA 13's "complete dribbling" to jump from 10-direction dribbling to unlimited directions that took place between the 2009 and 2010 iterations. Only time will tell if the change is that dramatic, but on paper it looks game changing.

With 360 degrees of dribbling, players are allowed dribbling with simultaneous shielding, greater fidelity over close touches, quicker direction changes at slow speeds and most importantly, it should bring all of the advances together to work in greater unison.

The complete ball control used in one-on-one dribbling has been borrowed from FIFA Street and implemented in a different format for traditional matches. 

Not many have complained about FIFA's lack of offense but the FIFA community bitched and moaned so much about the not so intelligent AI that EA Canada decided to bolster the attacking intelligence anyway.

New positioning code improves how players analyze space and choose to go on runs. A lot of the times in FIFA 12, the attacking team was unstable when figuring out just where to attack. Apparently teams will now evaluate the entire run path as opposed to just the space around the player with the ball. This allows teammates to work smarter.

The smarter AI, which thinks plays ahead in the upcoming title, improves the flow of the game putting the team in better position for better runs with more conviction.