6/10 review on Eurogamer. Warranted?
Link to Review
He criticises the new/old menu style in the review, but it's a no brainer for me. With screens having increasingly wide aspects it makes perfect sense to take up a percentage of that with the menu system, rather than trying to cram more into a vertical layout. I haven't read the rest of the review yet (at work) so won't comment on that.
On the whole I love the new layout (hardcore players will still use the keyboard shortcuts to get to the screen they want anyway). My only complaint about that is the tactics screen is now slower to use - perhaps more logical, but worse overall.
I'm struggling to get into the new one generally though. There are too many reports of matches where you trash a top team and then get a drubbing off a poorly performing team - this can obviously happen in real life too, but it seems too common here, and my own experience mirrors the inconsistency in that too.
I'll let it mature and see the tactical advice mature to see how this evolves.