Granted, I was playing as Manchester United, who may well be ludicrously overpowered given that they have a strong squad that is also one of the few licensed for the game, but I want a team of real players AND a challenge so my options are limited.įIFA's wide range of licenses lets me play with actual teams even in the lower leagues (four English tiers are supported, as opposed to Pro Evo's two) and I'm thoroughly enjoying the beginnings of my journey to the top with Bury. Pro Evo's Master League mode is appealing, a singleplayer career mode with a neat approach to squad-building and player development, but I won my first three matches 7-0, 7-1 and 8-0 when I played earlier this week, which was somewhat off-putting. I want to play football, not a collectible card game based around football. While I can see the appeal of building a team from the ground-up, I find Ultimate Team structurally chaotic and prefer the more comprehensible progression through traditional seasons. Ultimate Team - with online and offline play, unlockable card packs and custom squads – is the main draw, as the menu makes clear, describing it as “FIFA's #1 Mode”. This immediately marks me out as an outlier in the FIFA world. I've been playing two career mode games, one as a player at Bury and another as Bury's manager. By trusting in believable ball physics rather than canned animations, and focusing on the timing of tackles and passes, EA have made a game in which a hard-fought 0-0 draw (on a cold blustery Tuesday night in Stoke) can contain almost as much drama and demand as much concentration as a 5-0 cup final victory. FIFA 16, incredibly for a game so slick and concerned with the pomp and circumstance of its licenses, understands that the imperfect moments are as much the heart of the game as the last minute winners and thumping overhead kicks. Like most sports, football is made up of long periods of control punctuated by mistakes and marvels. Balls stick to players' feet, passes have an uncanny ability to hit their target – moments that should be breathtaking happen so often that you either engage in some autoerotic asphyxiation as your team of impossibly talented gents stroke the ball around the pitch, or you shrug and decide never to be impressed by anything ever again. Commentators remark on the feat, not in their role as hype men for whatever league they're paid to narrate, but because it is actually a remarkable thing.įootball games often make the extraordinary seem routine. When a football player uses his or her first touch to trap a long, high cross-field pass, it's not uncommon for an entire stadium packed with people to let out a gasp of astonishment. Early impressions of FIFA 16 suggest Konami's kick 'em up might have to fight hard for my affection. Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 has been receiving rave reviews and with FIFA head honcho Sep Blatter once again making headlines for all the wrong reasons, there's no better time for a changing of the guard. Or rather, an old king who has returned to reclaim his crown. According to the wise folks of digital football, there's a new king in town.
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