FIFA 23, like so many FIFAs before it, sums up the best and worst of football culture - a joyeous game in the vice-like grip of profiteers. The Eurogamer review:
All of this, fundamentally, is gambling. Ultimate Team is gambling. The only thing that makes it not gambling in the eyes of regulators is that you can't"cash out" - sell the things you've won in-game for real money. I'd argue that makes it worse. Ultimate Team is like a casino where you have a chance to win chips that can only be spent on in-casino prizes, that you can only use to earn more chips, and that you cannot take outside of the casino.
That is: power shots. A new move, holding down the two shoulder buttons and pressing shoot will see your player wind up exaggeratedly before launching an absolute rocket towards the goal. The results are wonderfully funny: most of the time, it takes so long to prepare a shot that you'll get absolutely clattered.
There are other additions, and they're positive. You can now turn off negative commentary, which I truly love. The womens' game features more prominently than ever, with the addition of club football in the Women’s Super League and Division 1 Arkema capturing what feels like a genuine sea change in the wake of Euro 2022. It's also properly motion-captured, as you'd hope.
Career Mode cutscenes are weirdly half-voiced - often someone like the club press secretary might introduce you to a press conference, then the rest is all silent. Normally I wouldn't mind - but then I remembered EA made a combined $1.62bn from FIFA, Madden and and NHL's Ultimate Team modes in its last financial year, so I reckon they could afford to voice and localise it.
Here's Manchester United and Everton legend Wayne Rooney celebrating after scoring a goal for... a team with a Liverpool badge. Only in Ultimate Team.
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