Fifa 21

The world’s most famous football series returns once again with this year’s release Fifa 21 from Electronic Arts. The game promises many long-awaited improvements to gameplay and artificial intelligence. Has FIFA fulfilled its promises this time? Continue reading the review to find out more.

FIFA is a very long-running series of games that came onto the market in 1993 and achieved success that began to multiply with the numbered installments starting with Fifa 95. In fact, since childhood, we as football fans have been interested in playing the new FIFA installments every year since… The 1995 version, and although we preferred Konami’s famous masterpiece International Superstar Soccer back then, FIFA had its own advantages in terms of on entertaining gameplay and even the presence of indoor games in some versions. FIFA reached the peak of success and popularity with version 98, which accompanied the World Cup and declined sharply in the first decade of the millennium, stagnating in gameplay for many years until it began to improve again on the PS3/X360 devices to rise To climb back to the throne of football and defeat Konami’s stubborn competitor PES commercially and even on the level.

Game Modes

FIFA now offers a wide range of game modes. There is a career mode, which is divided into player mode and manager mode. We played manager mode, which is full of options such as: Such as building a network of talent around the world or checking reports on players, developing a player development plan, handling deals and transfers, etc. Talent scouting is a fun mode that develops team management skills requires, but the many options off the field may not be attractive to all players. There is also the Ultimate Team mode, which has become a landmark for fans of the Fifa series, and the Volta mode and 3v3 or 4v3 games. 4 or 5 against 5 players on closed or open courts, and it is also possible to play according to the Futsal rules.

New Gameplay Features

I’m not the biggest fan of Futsal’s very arcade-heavy and flashy gameplay, preferring the simple play on large grass pitches and the more realistic football simulation on those pitches that this game offers. This year’s version of Fifa adds skills that were needed such as Agile Dribbling, a feature new dribbling by pressing R1 and moving the right analog stick. It is a feature available to all players, but its effectiveness increases as certain skills of the player improve, such as: B. ball control ability and dribbling ability, which helps get rid of defenders more effectively in one-on-one confrontations.

The addition that may be more effective or important is the ability to direct other team players without the ball, whether running or passing. This helps solve the “crisis” that players have long complained about when artificial intelligence does not intervene the way the player wants and allows greater control over the team. . In addition, the game developers wanted to increase the value of tactical positioning and you will see top players and those who have this skill move without the ball to take the ideal position in attack or defense. Are these functions enough? In fact, we believe the gameplay in FIFA is moving in the right direction, but further improvements are needed. The game still gives the player a similar feel to what it has been doing for many years, and we feel that it is in dire need of further development in terms of gameplay weight and realism. As well as the movement of the players, and perhaps this is achieved with the expected movement of the new generation, and also the faces of the players, which is an eternal problem The FIFA series still suffers from a lack of realism. When I play for the German club Bayern Munich and score a goal against the crafty Polish striker Lewandowski and watch the replay, I have no idea. I’m just wondering if that’s Lewandowski or Ivan Persic?!

Final Thoughts

FIFA 21 is a step in the right direction and a content-rich game that can give you tens, if not hundreds of hours of gameplay. The game has added many useful improvements to the gameplay, but still needs further development in terms of physics, animation and gameplay weight. It still tends to attack strongly and it is enough that I managed to score more than 9 goals in a game against the Italian club Inter Milan on the global difficulty. The game has also lost some rights in a strange way, such as the rights of the old lady, the Italian club Juventus, which exists under the name Piemonte Calcio.

Disclaimer

The game was tested on a PS4 version provided by the publisher before the game was released