FIFA’s move towards the ultimate soccer simulation continues - but has it forgotten that football’s supposed to be, you know, fun? The result is a game that’s more realistic and tactics-driven than ever before. Especially if you fancy yourself as an armchair Mourinho. The Team of The Week challenge is also a quick way to earn coins, all you have to do is play against the best players of the week with your team. The challenge offers more coins to those who play at the highest difficulty.
The only two improved mechanisms that we did see in FIFA 16 for Xbox 360 and PS3 were the team’s defense and the highly anticipated one-touch dribble system. With FIFA 16, EA announced players will find it hard to pass by defenders and that thankfully was the case when we played the title on old-gen consoles as well. At one point in the game where we almost passed by the last remaining defender, another of that team's defender sprinted towards us quickly and tackled us once again.
I am a devoted Manchester United fan, and although it’s been a turbulent season and a bit, there are two painfully apparent differences in the team. One, they look amazing in attack and have an abundance of choice. It looks beautiful the way they pass and dribble the ball and in turn, creates a lot of excitement. Then there is the atrocious defending, which has seemingly gone out the window. It is the closest you can come to describing FIFA 16, Beautiful in attack, shocking in defence. Sure, it’s still early days and there’s obviously a warming period to learn all the new tricks and mechanics.
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Defenders are able to seamlessly close down space and change direction using swing steps, creating balance in 1 v 1 situations. Defender acceleration time to top speed and greater freedom of movement help defenders stay with their opponents as they look to break up attacks. Always Remember the key to defending is of course Defend together, win together. Essentially FUT Draft enables players to pick from the world’s best from the get-go, aiming to find the best chemistry in order to create a winning force. For each position you choose from a handful of players, and as a mode it is wonderfully addictive.
In previous FIFA games it was acceptable to have whichever defender was nearest to the ball sprint towards it, then once it was passed across the field, switch player, rinse and repeat. If you do that in FIFA 16, you'll get passed off the park and quickly find yourself short of defensive support. You need to defend as a team in FIFA 16, and to do that you mustn't send a single man on a drastic run to chase the ball down. Instead, gradually move your team up the field to close the ball down, shutting off space and removing passing lanes.
FIFA 16 gives you the tools to stop your opponent with confidence. You can move with greater freedom as a defender unlike before and you’ll be able to rely on your team to defend as a unit, and your back line to track menacing runs to create a better balance between attacking and defending and of course there is Defensive Agility… What’s that you might be asking? FIFA 16 has a new suite of 25 feature changes to defensive locomotion creates agile defenders that track attacking opponents.
