The stadiums are much livelier with fans, singing and cheering their team with a whole host of chants and songs, groaning at missed shots and screaming at goals. Another really enjoyable bit is the emotions expressed by the players themselves. Tackle a player too often, and you may end up in a fight with him. Miss open chances and risk disgruntling your team-mates. This and much more awaits you in FIFA 15. There are a lot of players in the game and odds are that you can find players that will suit your needs without them being a total dud. Scouting said players will get you an idea of their worth but an enquiry to the parent club will give you their value based on current rating, potential, and form, which is helpful. FIFA 15 is a lot of fun and does pretty much exactly what it sets out to do. If you're looking for tactics, in-depth press conferences, scout suggestions, and serious player movement, this game probably isn't for you. If you want to do all that and still play through match after match, there really is no better option on the market at the moment.
It’s a difficult question to answer; FIFA 15 does boast a number of improvements over its predecessor, but this is still fundamentally the same game - when you’re making an annual game about a sport with mostly unchanging rules, it’s hard to reinvent the wheel in such a short time frame. FIFA 15 doesn’t even try. All the usual modes are back and pretty much work the same as they did in previous FIFA titles, but why fix something that’s not broken, right? We buy this game because of the innovation and updates in the game play, not for the different modes. Though, I did notice that FIFA 15 doesn’t have the lobbies anymore, or at least I couldn’t find them on the game. Which comes as a great shame to me if they have been removed as enjoyed playing the 11v11 “Be A Pro” game modes on certain websites where the website was based around that game mode, and was just about to re-launch after missing FIFA 15.
It’s worth having a crack at the ‘skill games’ also, as you will learn neat little tricks that will help you doing game play. You also get rewarded for spending your time playing the skill games with Achievements, which is always a good thing. FIFA 15 Ultimate Team returns for all you out there that enjoyed playing this little game mode in previous FIFA titles. No doubt this will consume some of my hard earned cash when I get into it as I strive for a better team to compete online - My wallet hates micro transactions, as do I…But I just can’t stop myself when it comes to FUT 15 game modes. This makes the action feel satisfying. It opens up fun goals but makes defending take a little more work, leading to a bit more satisfaction when you shut down a run or open shot. I’ve historically fallen into a strange chasm with EA’s sports games, one where the semi-pro difficulty is way too easy but one level up is just a tad too hard. It’s been that way for as long as I can remember, until this year with FIFA 15. The difficulty is finally exactly what I want it to be and it’s mostly down to the combo tweaks to ball physics and close control.
No matter how big FUT 15 gets though (and let’s face it, this is a runaway behemoth that many gamers purely buy FIFA for), the servers are a perennial problem. Obviously, I couldn’t judge that before release, but if the dreaded “EA Servers are down” message is finally eradicated, this review will be updated to reflect the change. It would also be remiss if I didn’t mention the “Ultimate Team Edition” of FIFA 15. This is the version I was sent by EA, and whilst it presents decent value for avid FUT 15 gold pack purchasers (admittedly, I am not one of them), the distribution of the packs seems unfair. If one forgets to claim their two free packs each week, they will not stack - you’ll simply lose the chance to open them - meaning you must log in to FIFA 15 every few days to avoid wasting the money spent.
This fluid, darting control can feel great when you’re attacking, and I’ve pulled off some goals in FIFA 15 that’d barely be worth attempting in the prior release. As mentioned though, the new-found nimble skills up front have turned defending into something of an art. In theory, I’m in favour of this. FIFA defending has often strayed too close to the automated kind where you just make judicious use of the ‘team mate press’ command (or, in older editions, just hold down A until your defender hustles someone off the ball.) The series’ move towards the self-styled ‘tactical defending’ has been making marking and tackling harder with each successive release.
