Every year, EA Sports must perform an impossible balancing act, and FIFA UT Coins is their most recent attempt to meet this challenge head on. The gameplay is tense and features a significant skill gap, but on the one hand, the game simulates football in a way that is approachable and accurate, and on the other hand, the gameplay itself is stressful.
However, despite the fact that FIFA UT Coins is yet another utterly compelling dopamine factory that I will without a doubt be playing until the day before the next game comes out like I do every year, it is still very easy to criticize, and it will ultimately be just as divisive as previous entries over the course of the last five years or so have become. This is the case despite the fact that FIFA UT Coins is a game that I will be playing until the day before the next game comes out. The gameplay in is focused on being lightning-fast, arcade-like, and on the edge of your seat. Matches are kept short and intense, and players are kept on the edge of their seats the entire time.
One of the behind-the-scenes improvements included in FIFA UT Coins is a feature called Hypermotion 2, which makes use of motion capture and machine learning to generate animations that are more realistic as you play the game. It's a win for the realism side of the balancing act and looks great in general, eliminating some of the jarring, immersion-breaking (and reality-defying) contortion that was likely to pop up over hundreds and thousands of matches, just as EA Sports said it would. It's a win for the realism side of the balancing act and looks great in general. The side of the balancing act that deals with realism has triumphed here.
The fact that the gameplay is much too fast to ever look truly realistic is, however, an issue that cannot be circumvented and cannot be circumvented at all. When a player is attacking, where striking the ball is more intuitive and feels smoother, the much-despised skating look, in which players appear to glide from stride to stride, is significantly reduced. On the other hand, when players are defense jockeying, they gallop full-Gangnam style, and the whole thing is very slippery.
It is a textbook example of EA's competing ideologies when it comes to FIFA, where it doesn't really matter if the animations are pulled from genuine movements if it looks like they are performed in bullet-time from The Matrix. If you look at it that way, it doesn't matter if the animations are pulled from genuine movements or not. Since the very beginning of its existence, FIFA has been struggling with this very same issue.
This, however, does not necessarily imply that the race has zero redeeming qualities at all
acceleRATE is an additional one of the major additions to FIFA 23, and it enables players to execute sprint acceleration styles that are either explosive or controlled and can also be as long as they want
This is a fantastic idea that, when put into practice, results in some really surprising and genuine moments as well
In theory, this is a fantastic idea
Playing against tricky players like Raheem Sterling and watching him wriggle away on the edge of the box to bear down on goal – with his trademark run in the game too – so similarly as he's done for England, Man City, and now Chelsea over the years can't help but bring a smile to your face. He's done this for England, Man City, and now Chelsea. He has accomplished this feat for each of those three teams.
On the other hand, the balancing act rears its head in other aspects, as the challenging task of making the system powerful and visible in-game without making it incredibly overpowered rears its head again. This presents another opportunity for the phrase "the balancing act."Some explosive players may have a sudden sensation that is comparable to that of running through molasses, while lumbering guys may build up an unassailable head of steam during the course of the game.
The speed of players also appears to have been significantly sped up in FIFA 23, which is a change that I actually support as a modification. This change was made in the game. When you watch real football, extreme mismatches between players' speeds are not very common, and the degree to which they occur is highly dependent on the situation. However, when you put a binary number on things like pace, even players who are the most dedicated to realism are going to throw their hands up as their rapid attacker is tractor-beamed in by a slower defender. This is because putting a binary number on things like pace makes it impossible to simulate the nuances of the real world. When it comes to actual football, absolute speed mismatches are not very common, and when they do occur, they are highly dependent on the situation.
When it comes to dissonance, there is no other aspect of Career Mode that is as jarring as the contrast between fantasy and reality. After putting in hundreds of hours of practice, devoted players eventually reach a point where they are simply too good at the game. This is another one of EA Sports' impossible tasks. Because of this, every clogging AI winger needs to be able to dribble like Maradona did when he was at the peak of his career or else you will win every game 7-0.
When you make things more competitive, every match turns into a tit-for-tat ding-dong, which again breaks the delicate suspension of disbelief that Plymouth Argyle really are scrapping for the Champions League, or whatever headcanon you're RPing (because that's what you're doing even if there aren't any fairies or wizards involved, folks). When you make things more competitive, every match becomes a tit-for-tatTo put it another way, it shatters the fragile suspension of disbelief that Plymouth Argyle is in fact real.
When compared to the high regard in which its dedicated player base holds Career Mode, the fact that it appears to be neglected is not helpful to the situation at hand. These additions, despite the fact that there are brand new cutscenes, ratings for transfers, and a completely reworked presentation style, are ultimately irrelevant to the gameplay. However, the presence of obvious bugs, which ruin the experience of playing the match, is what makes it feel like it has been completely sidelined. This is because the bugs ruin the experience of playing the match.
Since the release of the game, I have experienced a problem in which substituted players receive a poor match rating, regardless of how well they played; for instance, a performance in which two goals were scored results in a score of only four out of ten. This problem has occurred multiple times for me since the game was first introduced.
Not only does this have an impact on their overall development and progression - the objective of this game mode is to find the most promising young talents and mold them into formidable superstars - but it also permeates the presentation aspects of the game. You begin to get questions in press conferences about your free-scoring players falling out of form (which they haven't), as well as news stories lamenting their poor performances (which didn't happen), and it quickly snowballs into an unsatisfying experience for you as a coach or player. You start to get questions in press conferences about your free-scoring players falling out of form (which they haven't).
