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The long balls have been vastly improved and you can now switch play with ease. Defending now feels like more of a battle than ever, and you’ll want to have your wits about you to keep the opposition at bay.Īttacking also allows for more creativity. Pressing L1/LB is still a viable method, but a click of the right stick now displays a prompt above the four closest players so that you can instantly take control of the player you want. To counteract this, you can now player switch much more efficiently. The AI attack in much more varied and creative ways. The more you play, the more the nuanced changes become apparent. The first thing you’ll notice is that the game speed has been slowed down – much more in line with the beautiful game (although I personally still set the speed to slow in the settings). However, this year brings improvements to almost every facet of play. At its core, this is still a FIFA game on the divisive Frostbite engine. Stepping onto the field for the first time will feel very familiar. All over the pitch players are subtly going about their business in a more realistic manner.

A term that led to many a LOL on Twitter after the initial reveal. However, the jump to next-gen technology does open up new possibilities and that is exactly what the team over at EA Vancouver utilised. Short development cycles don’t allow much time to make sweeping changes. It is easy to get disenchanted with annualised games. So with eFootball squeaking out like a wet fart this year, it was the perfect time for FIFA to come back and claim the gameplay crown.

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A quick check of my EA Origin account on PC reveals I logged over 1,000 hours each on FIFA 13, 14, 15 & 16, before switching to Konami’s more realistic product as EA’s take on football became more arcade-like to cater to the Ultimate Team crowd. In fact, you would need to go all the way back to FIFA 16 to find a time where EA’s yearly football sim was my go-to. In recent years, that has been PES (RIP).

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