That's still the case in the FIFA 15 demo, but the proper pass can set your player up for a quick first touch and help to dominate possession over your opponent.EA Sports announced that their demo for FIFA 16 will be released to the public from September 8-10 th and will be available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Player movements and contact physics have been a focus for this game in recent years, but one quick demo match will leave you convinced that the platform has made huge strides there again.Ĭhanges to how players catch passes and maintain possession has made FIFA much more realistic-looking-albeit more difficult for novices-in past years, with midfielders taking poor touches when receiving passes with a bit too much mustard on them. The first improvements that caught my eye-literally two seconds into my first exhibition-were the top-notch dynamics involved with battling players for the ball. Now, you can save as many as six of those to assure your favorite half-dozen lineups are cemented.įrom the opening segment of the FIFA 15 demo, when Martin Tyler observes the rain falling on London's Emirates Stadium, it just looks and feels like a completely new game. It's beyond aggravating to constantly have to shake up your lineups every match in a long season, especially when it's primarily swapping between two or three different looks. But just as important is the ability to alter player roles, overall strategy and even a new wrinkle called "team tactics" to help dictate how your squad plays. The main draw is being able to save multiple different starting lineups to swap in and out from match to match. The starting 11 in place almost always has to be shaken up, as do the formations and tactics a lot of the times.Īs such, EA Sports devoted some special attention to how gamers can alter their lineups by allowing them to create as many as six different team sheets for their respective squads, as EA Sports announced on August 11. If you're like me and countless others, the opening few minutes of setting up a game to play revolve around endless lineup changes and tweaks in team management. But if you have a stallion in net, chances are he's going to simply look much better in FIFA 15 than he did in previous installments. Of course, better goalie movement inevitably will open things up for more creative scoring chances and even more opportunities to catch those keepers off guard. In the past, it was common to see goalies complete the same, formulaic moves, but now keepers have a new AI reading that allows them to anticipate plays like they haven't in previous games. Much like they did with field players in last year's next-generation installment, the dynamics for goalkeepers has been completely re-written in FIFA 15. But they have been completely remastered by the guys at EA Sports. Let's hope I didn't get your hopes up-goalies are still computer-controlled in FIFA 15. He's just kind of there, and although the right one can save your club the match, watching an average keeper struggle can be an unnerving-not to mention helpless-feeling. One of the initial things a first-time FIFA novice draws his or her attention to is the inability to play with the goalkeeper.
Loaning players also got a little easier for gamers, as the option is now available to sell-or buy-players on loan for a set number of matches instead of a season. It's largely for bragging rights between friends, but nothing is more exciting than putting your team to the test against that guy you know who always talks up his Ultimate Team squad. You can't play with said team, of course, but it allows you to assess what lineups work in terms of establishing chemistry on your squad.Īmong the other additions to Ultimate Team is the ability to play friendly seasons against online friends. The wildly popular Ultimate Team mode in FIFA has taken over the gaming world with millions of world football freaks getting in on perhaps the most intricate franchise mode in sports video gaming.Īnd as should be expected in such a game mode, more enticing features are set to be rolled out in FIFA 15 as the company's website released on August 13.įirst and foremost, the addition that struck me to begin with was the "concept squads." It's exactly what it sounds like-a chance for gamers to build hypothetical lineups with any player in the game.
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