![]() FUT's best new signing, though? Truly silly stadium customisation features that let you add crowd chants, and best of all, huge cardboard cutouts for your stands. Not only does this mean your squad goes into each match in peak condition, it stops players from hoarding tons of stamina-boosting cards before selling them on the online transfer market. First up, fitness cards have been scrapped. If you feel loot boxes should go in the bin right alongside Project Big Picture and Ronaldo's top knot, FUT will continue to leave a bad taste in your mouth.Īt least EA has made some welcome changes to the mode. While you can unlock packs by grinding through online matches, it's far quicker to buy them by ponying up actual money. If you've been stuck on a desert island playing with Panini stickers for the past five years, FUT lets you build custom squads by opening card packs containing players and cosmetic items, like new kits or club badges. FIFA's card-collecting mode has received a lot of bad press over the years, and the continuing presence of pay-to-win features feel as tone deaf as ever. FUT it outĪnd then there's Ultimate Team. It's a decent compromise that ensures the more obsessive of us can take our teams' fates back into our hands at any given moment. The good news is you can wrestle control back with a single button press. A word of warning though: give the AI the keys to your team and you can expect to concede a lot. My experience? It's a handy and semi efficient way of skipping games during a seriously long 38-match season. Presented in top-down tactical menus, you're free to make subs and formations changes on the fly as you chew your nails while the AI tries to win matches for your club. The biggest Career Mode addition comes in the form of new sim features that let you play out matches like Football Manager lite. Balancing a competitive squad over a 38 game season is a stressful yet rewarding challenge.īalancing a competitive squad over a 38 game season is a stressful yet rewarding challenge. Sharpness is also affected by giving players sustained runs in your first eleven. Playing out fitness minigames in real-time ensures your players are as sharp as possible, while simming sessions lessens their impact. On that note, FIFA's non-FUT headline mode has received welcome improvements with a renewed focus on training and squad management. Yet even though I've regularly rinsed fullbacks with the likes of Arsenal's Nicola Pépé, FIFA 21 has a newfound respect for careful build-up play. Are speedy wingers still super effective for those times you catch rival teams on the back foot? Absolutely. Now that it's marginally easier to dribble past opposition defenders, attacks no longer have to rely so much on brute pace and savvy counters. ![]() While ball movement occasionally feels upsettingly artificial-more on the series' wayward physics shortly-there's no denying FIFA 21 plays a better game of football than last year's entry. This time out, movement feels more freeform, with unpredictable spaces opening up on the pitch in a way that just didn't happen in FIFA 20. Far too often, players in FIFA 20 felt like they were stuck on an invisible eight-directional axis-like their movement was inhibited by some unseen footballing force. Nowadays all teams have Messi, Salah, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kevin De Bruyne, etc.EA has destroyed this franchise, but hey.I guess this kind of game is what the younger generations (Fortnite fans ) like.I am keeping my fingers crossed for Pro Evolution Soccer to come with a game that looks something like football next year.Before I start going studs up on FIFA 21, EA deserves credit for making the on-pitch action feel less sterile and predictable. ![]() EA has turned FIFA 21 into a circus, Fortnite-like game as opposed to a soccer/football simulator.Disco music celebrations, ridiculous banners on the stands, I guess next year they will add the possibility of playing with Messi using a Stormtrooper helmet or Cristiano Ronaldo with a crocodile head.If that was not enough, all online games finish 5-4, 4-3, 5-5, 6-6.pretty realistic, right?The players move as if they were ice skating on the pitch.I also miss the days when having a player like Harry Kane or Luis Suarez on your Ultimate Team was something to be proud about. I have bought and played Fifa since 2011 and I have noticed a devolution over the years, but the 2021 version is a joke. I have bought and played Fifa since 2011 and I have noticed a devolution over the years, but theWe are witnessing the death of a classic. We are witnessing the death of a classic. Grand Theft Auto V: Premium Online Edition. ![]()
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