If you’ve watched women’s football before, and I have for about three years, you’ll know it isn’t so much based on strength, nor speed; it’s about the core elements that make football great. Passing, movement, and playing for love, rather than money, which has tainted the male version of the sport. With the women’s offering in FIFA 16, EA has created an even more realistic simulation, and one which can be more satisfying than the men’s, duplicating player attributes, team strengths, and the ‘feel’ of the football more closely than anything FIFA has done before.
Most importantly, though, all of the tweaks are based on real feedback from the people who matter most... the gamers. Last year’s game was all about speed and you could button bash your way from back to front in a few seconds. I am not an Ultimate Team player but from what I can gather in my brief time playing FIFA Ultimate Team Draft it seems a strong addition which should hold gamers’ attention the year round.
Outside of sports games, players often ignore single player campaigns in favor of online play. It's common to meet someone who, for example, never beat the newest Call of Duty campaign because he or she is a multiplayer fanatic. In this case, the same can be said of FIFA Ultimate Team, or FUT. The immensely popular fantasy draft mode lets football fanatics create teams from scratch by spending acquired coins or
FIFA Points on bronze, silver or gold card packs containing players and consumables to help boost their teams.
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From there, these gamers compete against fellow FUT junkies online for rewards. The goalies in FIFA 16 are now a lot sharper. They’re more alert to floated balls and will often clear crosses by leaving their line and punching the ball away. Overall, every player in FIFA 16 now has faster reaction times and keeps a better formation, which makes a big difference in defence. While attackers can still blast through the midfield, you can rely on a smarter and more responsive back-line this year.
There’s no doubt that “FIFA 16” will keep you busy if you choose to invest your time in it. Whether you are playing individual matches, online or offline tournaments, FIFA Ultimate Team or career mode, you’re bound to keep picking up the controller and coming back for more. FIFA 16 burst onto the scene with a hail of attention helped by prominent tweets from some of the diversion’s top stars. Furthermore, kid, it’s great to have it back.
Make no mistake: this is still an exhaustive package. There are enough licensed teams, leagues and spot-on player likenesses here to, well, launch your own brown-envelope-free rival governing body. And, unlike PES 16’s pitiful PC showing, FIFA 16 is a cracking port that runs well on a variety of rigs-I played on a (admittedly monstrous) 980 TI, and the subsequent 4K/unfaltering 60fps action was totally sumptuous.
Does that make an okay a genuinely good game? Not really. FIFA 16: Ultimate Team is a process, and ultimately you’ll get a better grasp of the beautiful game taking on a series like Score! than you will attempting to live out your footballing fantasies on FIFA’s pitch. The Ultimate Team formula is already a proven one and if you’re of a ‘gotta catch em all’ mentality, it’s hard to argue that there isn’t much here for you to enjoy, but as a simulation of a game of football, FIFA 16 is something of a non-event.
