FIFA 15 is for now the definitive football gaming experience, you will not only be immersed with the action on the pitch, but off it too. While many may criticise that the FIFA series never tends to improve drastically year on year, there’s a good reason why EA do not change a great deal, because they don’t have too. Not necessarily because it’s the easy option, it’s because there on to a winner with the gameplay and subtle changes is all the series needs for now. But it’s those subtle changes that football fans will appreciate; that none fans perhaps will not notice.
The new Squad Management system on the other hand, and indeed much of the user interface side of FIFA 15, has seen a very strong, positive, and most importantly effective update carried out. Things in FIFA 15 are now much faster, flowing and easier to find than the last few titles in the franchise have seen them. It is possible to navigate menus quickly and easily, and find what you are looking for with ease rather than having to perform endless searching. There are also a lot less tick boxes and scenes to skip when you turn the game on now, so you can certainly jump into things faster.
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But the Team-mate positioning is extremely questionable, often leaving huge gaps for smart opponents to exploit, and they’re less likely than last year to make intelligent overlapping runs, even when you couldn’t make it clearer that you’re looking to play them in.
Regardless, when all is said and done, FIFA 15 is the best football game we’ve ever played. It combines match day pageantry and superb gameplay perfectly, and builds nicely on last year’s sterling effort. After so many years of trying, EA has, with the exception of a few little missteps, finally gotten player AI right and created a fast, fluid football experience that looks and feels like the real thing. This will go down as the year that EA finally ticked all the boxes.
