Utimate Team – the classic mode features 100 iconic players from retirees, Eric Cantona, Petr Cech, Ashley Cole, Samuel Eto’o, Philipp Lahm, and many more, to all the names we know and love on our fields today.The soundtrack is excellent and should be enjoyed for its own sake! (Tifos are crowd-based displays, often across an entire side of a stadium, such as when each spectator is given a different colour card which, when held up, forms an enormous supportive message.) These little tweaks are ridiculous. The AI is more intelligent too, getting players to respond more authentically to the movement of the ball, taking up defensive or offensive positions without the player needing to micromanage every step of the way, resulting in faster and more fluid gameplay than has been seen before.Ībsolutely irrelevant to the game and the team, but so much fun that they deserve a special mention are the stadium customisations, crowd chants and tifos that can be used to make your stadium your own. The improved physics engine can be seen in ball movements and flight, with much more nuanced responses to the strength of kicks and throw-ins. The physics engine has been tweaked to allow for subtle interventions by players, instead of the old 8-direction ‘star’ that previous iterations had the players stuck on. The ‘footage’ of the gameplay has continued on its quest towards perfect realism – perhaps better than real perfection – and the introduction of agile dribbling (which sounds like a terrible affliction of old age) makes set plays more intense and engaging than ever before. As always, it is the licensing that attracts buyers, and this edition is no different with a staggering 17,000 players from 700 clubs playing in 30 leagues to choose from, swap and transfer and change the fortunes of! This means you could play out an entire season’s worth of games without repeating a player, even in the same team, if you wanted to! The game developers have had years to reach perfection and as a result there is little that has been interfered with to ruin the well-loved classic.
FIFA 2021 for PC is the incredible 28th game in this series.