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FIFA occasionally tweaks the rules of the game, only to later backtrack and tweak them again when the outcomes aren't what was expected. It just has to drop 'FIFA' from the title and next year will go with 'EA Sports FC' instead.įIFA as a sports governing body is just a giant, corrupt organization that holds a World Cup every few years, uses bribes to determine the host, fleeces fans and sponsors at every step to funnel as much money out of the game while holding off government oversight as best they possibly can. I think in the age of influencers we might have lost track of what that word 'collaboration' actually means. EA sports will continue making the same game with the same players and same teams and same modes. Even the players leagues and teams are individually licensed through the various representative entities. What collaboration? FIFA just lends a name and logo and EA does all the work. I even read one site referring to this as the 'last FIFA collaboration'. It means the game will have to change its name, that's all. EA and FIFA did not renew their licensing deal, that is true. First of all, this not 'the last FIFA' like many other sites are smugly tagging it. that is surrounding this game and this series. I took on this review hoping for a redemption arc.īefore I dig into my experience, it is worth cutting through a lot of the b.s.

I liked what I saw and was re-energized by what steps the gameplay might be taking this iteration to. Things did improve, and for FIFA 23 I was invited to the beta, not because of any Gaming Nexus connection but simply because my PSN was lucky enough to get an email in my inbox. I was back a year later in for FIFA 22 because that time away really left a hole in my gaming life. I would normally play through in-game years of career modes seasons while plunging a few extra tens of hours into FUT, but that entire cycle I could scarcely play more than the first few games required to uncover what a mess it was. The nadir of my relationship with the series was surely FIFA 21, whose AI defending was so bad it rendered the game broken and unplayable. I wrote about it here. I'm primarily a career mode player, through and through, and what was once the standout mode of the game has been neglected for a decade in favor of FUT's micro transactions dominating the game's distribution of developmental time and effort. Some other recent experimental modes like the Journey were just ridiculous press release filler and a waste of development resources. In recent years the game has been taken over by Ultimate Team (FUT) and all the grubby cash grab it represents. My relationship with FIFA of late has been. In most years of my adult gaming life, I would log more hours on the annual iteration of FIFA than any other game in my library.

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I was a rabid Pro Evo player for years through all of its greatest iterations but, like many, migrated over to FIFA as EA started to surpass Konami's flagship football property. It was that important to me, the best game about my favorite sport, that I had to write access into the very verbal negotiations we were sorting out our futures over.

#FIFA 21 REVIEW FULL#

When I first got married and my wife and I were sorting out our cohabitation situation and newlywed budgets, I lobbied for three things with respects to gaming: a PS Plus annual subscription, one full priced new game per year, and one copy of the latest FIFA.

Fifa 21 review