![]() I (and I suspect most other players) only ever play as a fraction of the hundreds of licensed teams. While I’m unlikely to spend hours playing matches with the England women’s team, that’s not exactly a shocking admission. They exist in their own separate eco-system, so the lack of a full league structure (somewhat understandable, as the domestic women’s game hasn’t got close to the popularity of the international tournaments) means you can’t yet manage a side in career mode or anything. The other visible inclusion is the selection of women’s national teams (minus the highly-rated Japan due to what I assume are licensing reasons), which you can use in one-off matches or an unbranded definitely-not-the-World-Cup tournament structure. Moreso even than the relative weakness of the PES series during many of those years. It’s not unwelcome, but it’s just a slight twist on the incredibly lucrative card-based Ultimate Team mode which has probably been the most significant contributor to EA Sports’ ability to coast along for ten years without much of an engine upgrade. ![]() The ‘feel’ of burying a header is still pretty nice, mind you.įIFA 16‘s headline additions are things like a new ‘draft’ mode for Ultimate Team, that enables quick, head-to-head tournament play with teams pulled from a randomised selection of some of the game’s better players. New features and additions have been piled on top of creaking foundations for about a decade, and I get the impression it’s starting to seriously limit the extent to which the series’ ‘feel’ can really be altered. ![]() There was a big marketing push surrounding the ‘Ignite’ engine for FIFA 14 ( 15 on PC), but tell-tale ‘legacy’ glitches showed that this was more of a cosmetic than substantial change. EA’s licensing deal means they are contractually obliged to release a FIFA title every single year, and this annual churn means the last time the game engine was radically overhauled was for FIFA 06. However, there is some underlying (and maybe under-realised) truth to the saying. If there were a way to somehow remove graphics from the equation and provide a ‘blind’ test involving a spread of FIFA 14, FIFA 15 and FIFA 16, I’m pretty confident regular players would be able to tell the difference. ![]() Those who opt to pick up FIFA every year will know the folly of claims that the game is “just the same every year”. ![]()
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