A whole new batch of legends are available, including, quite rightly, Bobby Moore and Peter Schmeichel. There's also a return for Ultimate Team Legends on the Xbox One (exclusive to the Xboxes again). However, in FIFA 15 year you can play in friendly seasons against pals, more for bragging rights, and you can loan players to try them out before parting with significant coin (virtual or real).
You must collect a team of players and a manager in trading card fashion, which you can either pay for through earned-in-game cash, or spend real moolah to speed up the process. Ultimate Team has become the most popular game mode (we were told by Electronic Arts, the game's producers) and it's similar to what has gone in the past. Player growth has been modified to be more realistic, but we haven't managed to play numerous seasons yet to see how much that might alter things. Instead, you definitely get a feeling of déjà vu when playing through seasons as your favourite or other chosen team. Plus, you can assign different commands to each player, ensuring that defenders stick where they are during attacks or make sure just one of your chosen strikers presses opponent defenders, for example.īut this change is applicable to all game modes and any match you play, so is not just restricted to career. The more aware of this you are, the easier these things will be to spot.You do get to set more complex tactics or, at least, create different team systems to suit different opponents through refreshed Team Management options though. On top of that, they kick up water while it’s raining, and the ball and players can run into the corner flags, causing them to bend. The publisher wants you to feel the game.Ĭonsidering the default camera in FIFA is set too far back to pick up everything, you’ll have to go to the replay option to take in the finer details, particularly a player’s animated hair and realistic breathing. EA wants you to do more than play FIFA 15. This dynamic match presentation and emotional intelligence brings us one step closer to blurring the line between game and reality. You see 10-man goal celebrations, rivals get in each other’s faces and teams collapse in agony as a shot on goal falls short. Suffice to say, Cristiano Ronaldo, cover star Lionel Messi and Neymar (get better Neymar) have never looked better, at least when it comes to stepping foot onto the virtual pitch.īeyond that, players now experience a wide range of emotions (over 600 total in the game) that tell the story of each individual match. In addition, EA claims its new lighting system provides a true to life environment. More time means having the chance to harness each console’s strengths to create lifelike players that almost mirror their real life counterparts, right down to the hair on their heads.
That shouldn’t be the case with FIFA 15.įIFA 14 for Xbox One and PS4 was EA’s way of getting its virtual feet wet with next generation development. Many games fail to provide the illusion of playing in front of 20,000 people. Then take a trip across the pond and square off against Manchester City, because there’s a good chance the fans will do the Poznan even cooler, the announcers pick up on it and react.
Visit select South American countries and watch as the fans enthusiastically jump up and down. Expect the developers to ratchet up the intensity with FIFA 15.
When it comes to sports games, the FIFA series has the best crowds, bar none. At this point, we don’t know how marked up a player can get, but again, it’s a welcome change of pace from the squeaky clean athletes in previous FIFA games. Should someone skid along the grass, you’ll instantly see a green stain on his backside when he gets up. Thankfully, this also extends to the players. You won’t end the game swimming in a mud bowl, but witnessing the pitch degrade over time is very cool to see. Watch as the pristine grass eventually gives way to skid marks, footprints and dirt. The longer a match progresses in FIFA 15, the dirtier the pitch becomes. That said, FIFA 15 looks amazing, so much so, that these visual improvements will have everyone talking.