The game’s digital sportsmen have generally been given more muscular body shapes, with longer arms and shoulders slightly reminiscent of 1980s Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The player models have been updated, and not just in the hairstyle department. Ball boys supply players with another ball when one has gone out of bounds, and corner flags bend when pushed against. Substitutes celebrate from the bench when their teams score – sometimes the camera even cuts to a close up of a major player on the sidelines, while there are 10-man goal celebrations on the pitch. Nothing has been left un-animated in Fifa 15. You probably won’t make it through a match at Anfield without a chorus of “You’ll Never Walk Alone”, and commentators notice and remark on Manchester City’s supporters doing the Poznan. As well as looking the part, real fan chants have been recorded, and crowds have been given custom behaviours based on the team. That rollercoaster of jubilation followed by disappointment when your team is stripped of a winning goal in the dying moments of injury time is, to borrow a phrase from EA Sports, “in the game”.Īlso in the game are fully licensed stadiums for every team in the Premiership. The game now has disallowed goals, rather than laser-accurate robotic linesmen that will instantly stop play for offside the moment the ball goes anywhere near an offending player. Blades of grass (and, if it’s raining, water) go flying into the air in slow motion when the ball is struck during replays, the pitch develops physical signs of wear and tear over the course of the match, shirts are visibly pulled by defenders chasing a zippy winger and the PA system at Selhurst Park warns fans in the stadium that the Northern line isn’t running (hats off to EA, they’ve clearly done their research on that one). Indeed, EA Sports is all about the small things this year. Unnecessary perhaps, but it’s a tiny detail that adds yet another layer of realism to the most realistic football sim on the planet.
Strikers look pleased with themselves after scoring a belter and assistant referees … twitch their noses when making an offside call.
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Faces are more expressive, and EA claims that there are 600 emotional reactions that could potentially be seen during the game players from opposing teams push, shove and bark at each other after having engaged in a series of aggressive physical battles over the course of the match. Well, the graphical improvements are by no means dramatic, but they are noticeable. After all, developers have had almost a year since the launch of the Xbox One and Playstation 4 last November to really get to know the possibilities and limitations of these machines. That said, it has long been believed that this year’s instalment would be the big one. EA Sports, much like Apple with its iDevices, has found a winning formula, and it is reluctant to do more than drip feed us tiny changes every year. It will be mostly the same game as before, and it will also be the best football simulation ever. Electronic Arts PC/PS3/PS4/Xbox 360/Xbox One (version tested)/Wii £45 7+Īrdent fans of the Fifa football games know two things to be true whenever the latest instalment arrives.
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