FC 25, or FIFA 25, for those of you who stopped playing before EA switched names due to licensing issues with FIFA, will be exactly as bad (or worse) as the game that came before it the prior year.
Is Football not a game of tactics and off-the-ball play? Is it not 105 degrees in Texas right about now? Are some millions of morons going to buy FC 25? The answer to these questions, and probably other obvious and unfortunate truths, is yes. Absolutely yes.
Those of you old enough can remember a time when FC, or FIFA, was a fun game, first and foremost. The stipulations surrounding realism during a football match in FIFA were mostly concerned with animations and, every couple of years or so, greater accuracy with player stats and skill move efficacy on the pitch.
As the years went by, FIFA games became increasingly concerned with trying to make their games realistic. Specifically, player movements began to get tied down with momentum algorithms and more complicated equations that turned defending and attacking less so a game of positioning and timing and more so a game of stat-checking.
This sort of thing shakes hands with the “realistic” movement system to create an uncanny feeling when playing modern FC games. Players with average speed stats feel as though they lumber and keel over when changing direction. Players move as though they are stepping on a foot’s worth of molasses, and the stat-checking gameplay is, bluntly, cheesy.
The problem becomes most obvious in cases where goalkeepers with low ratings make a proper dive to save a half-hearted shot, but because the shooter’s rating is high and the goalkeeper’s low, the keeper will do everything in their power to not make the save. That is, they’ll pull their arms in needlessly, move their arms out of the way, or they’ll refuse to dive on time, or get a hand to the ball but let their wrist go limp at the last second.
It’s entirely unnatural, and the developers at EA have proven that they are incapable, over the course of a decade, mind you, of driving this “realistic” development mentality into a place that keeps the game from looking like actual Football.
This begs the question: Who’s the moron that plans on buying FC 25? Definitely not anyone who cares about playing a game that resembles Football, that much is assured.
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