The actual gameplay is not to bad this year, yet again pace is even more relevant than previous years. If you have a fast forward line, then you are pretty much sorted.
EA really have no ideas about ratings either. Timo Werner last year had multiple IFs and even a TOTS card. Yet this season he gets downgraded lol. Yet you then get Lingard who had 0 assits and 0 goals in 2019, yet no downgrade.
Stuff like that really annoys me.
Pace is more important than ever, which is a shame. As take away pace, the base game is actually good this year.
Pace though is ruining yet another Fifa.
Can see that in the prices to, 89 rated Kane is 25,000 coins, yet 87 rated Son with 88 pace is 600,000 coins
I'm new to FIFA having not played a footie game since PES in 2009. I've spent probably 20 hours playing FIFA. I hate it!
Pace is everything and it seems every player can do amazing defence cutting triangle button passes. Why is this the case? You basically lump it to the corners, with fast forwards/wingers the defending team have got no chance.
The mechanics of the game are purely setup for end to end football, and ultimately who can break faster on the counter. I found you get zero reward for patiently building up play - as is the case in real football when opposition is good. PES did this infinitely better.
The other hugely frustrating thing is defending as a whole. In PES, generally when you lost a goal it was your fault. In FIFA players miss the ball so often, miss headers even when they're planted and favourite. You feel hard done by rather than outskilled. That's not the right balance.
Any mug with fast players and bashing the triangle button at every opportunity to get forward is rewarded. Even when you know which way a through ball is going and run that way, the forward always gets a mini boost and gets ahead of you.
Put this altogether and there is no delight in winning, and you feel hard done by whenever you lose. It doesn't reward skills, it rewards pace and mistakes (that are out of your hands).
Graphics, presentation, all amazing but it's the emperor with no clothes. Very little substance. My son will continue playing this button bashing game, so it's not a total waste of money. 4/10 for me.