It's no secret that between FIFA and PES there is an eternal struggle, which does not stop to this day. However, it is worth noting that Pro Evolution Soccer, although at some points was better than FIFA, gave up pretty quickly. A few years ago, the Japanese company decided to withdraw from direct competition with the giant and compete with it only indirectly. Now PES is on its way to development, and FIFA is on its own. But the softening of competition has not made the most titled series of football simulations worse. It is enough to see what feedback FIFA 16 received from fans of the series - everyone is delighted, rejoice at all the innovations, celebrate further development and progress both in matters of graphic design and in terms of realism of what is happening on the field.
What has the new version of the legendary game prepared for gamers? Regarding FIFA 16, although reviews are good in the majority, they cannot be called unambiguous. Therefore, in the course of this review, not only information about the game will be provided, but also how users perceived these or other changes, improvements and kickbacks.
Important approach
As mentioned above, the fight against the main competitor in the person of PES has already been won, and now FIFA can safely sit on the throne of the best football simulator in the world. However, there is a likelihood that developers will simply stop working on new parts, because if there is no competition, is it not easier to just take the old game, change the name, update the rosters and pass it off as a new one?
By the way, with regard to FIFA 16, reviews on the Internet often indicate this - they say nothing has changed, everything remains as before, but they charge for the game. Naturally, if you do not understand football simulators at all and do not follow how they develop in principle and in recent years in particular, then you may have just such an idea. But it is erroneous, and everyone who closely followed each of the many parts of the game that have been released over the past twenty years will tell you this. And from such fans about FIFA 16, reviews on the Internet are always much more positive. Well, or at least these people recognize that the changes have been made, there are an impressive amount of them, so the developers do not just take the money. But for the better, these changes or for the worse - this is a completely different question.
Women's football
The loudest news was already known before the release of even FIFA 16 Demo - user reviews then stirred up the Internet. It became known that in the new part of the game there will be not only men's teams, but also women's ones. Naturally, there were immediately a huge number of people who began to scold EA even for the very idea, attributing everything to the political correctness of the modern world. But there was also a fairly impressive number of people who liked this idea.
Critics, of course, hastened to conclusions, as in fact behind this step there is much more than just a desire to please a tolerant community. Firstly, women's football is also a sport, and there is nothing shameful in including it in the game. Secondly, this was done to popularize the development, which, in principle, reached its peak, and in order to move on, had to offer something new. Thirdly, it turned out to be useful for expanding influence, as there are countries in which women's football is no less popular than men's. As a result, it turned out that the loudest innovation has become one of the most insignificant.
The game has only twelve teams that can take part in the World Cup, or be content with friendly matches. As for the implementation of the women's game, here EA tried - they managed to make women's football different from men's. There is less speed here, more need to play a combination game, as in real women's football. Accordingly, the pace of the process is falling, the movements of the soccer players are much smoother, and this leaves a good impression for those gamers who do not believe that the woman's place is in the kitchen. Women's game is no different on consoles, that is, FIFA 16 on a PC is no different from FIFA 16 PS4. The reviews about the female component of the new part are very different - some are delighted with the opportunity, some are indifferent to this, and some continue to insist that this is a worldwide conspiracy to squeeze men from this world. Everyone has their own approach, and you will not please everyone.
Error correction
Progress compared to the previous part was already noticeable on FIFA 16 Demo - the feedback even on the demo version was already quite positive, and the game itself was really pleased with its innovations in terms of gameplay. So, the main problem of the previous part of the game was speed - the pace was growing for several years, and in FIFA 15 they reached a certain absurd limit. People chose the fastest players as a team, not paying attention to other indicators, since it was speed that decided everything, and even if the player was world-class, but slow, he was out of work.
In the new part, the developers have significantly reduced the pace of the game, thereby restoring the balance - now even the fastest player can not always escape from the not-fastest defender if he acts correctly. This is observed on absolutely all platforms, including FIFA 16 on the Xbox 360. Reviews regarding this innovation are also mixed - after all, there will always be lovers of “what happened”. But judging soberly, these changes went to the game only to the benefit of making it more realistic and balanced.
Variability
As you can easily understand, such changes allowed players to act much more broadly in terms of tactics. It is worth noting that not high-speed players came to the fore, but playmakers, midfielders who have a good pass and can competently build a team matching game. This does not mean that high-speed players fell out of favor - you can still torment the enemy’s defense with quick races, but do not expect that now they will all end with passages to the goal. Now you can succeed even if you play the “bus” by closing at your gates and baiting the enemy in counterattacks.
Against the background of the previous part, the new FIFA 16 (PC) looks very profitable - the feedback from gamers also confirms this, because people noticeably enjoy playing such a versatile and interesting football, where every tactic has a right to exist, than just running from goal to speed the gate.
Special movements
These were the most global changes in the game FIFA 16. The first reviews immediately noticed them, but then a long time that was spent playing the game made it possible to highlight other pleasant moments. For example, a set of feints that you can use on the field has become much more diverse. Now, even the defenders have special movements, for example, during the tackle to go to the end or remove the leg, slightly reducing efficiency, but also eliminating the possibility of an unwanted foul.
Visual display of players
Also added to the naturalness of the movement of players on the field, but their faces deserve special attention. Naturally, their image in the game was good before, but the technology of scanning the face of a real football player for the most accurate reproduction of his appearance was used before only in the top clubs of the English Premier League. Now, the creators spent much more time traveling around the world, and the faces of so many players from leading leagues were scanned.
Goalkeepers
However, it is worth noting another aspect that remains the weakest in the series to this day - the game of goalkeepers. It was the most unpleasant moment of both FIFA 15 and those parts that came before it. Naturally, this indicator has become a little better in the new part, but even the first hours of the game show that sometimes goalkeepers create something unimaginable at the gates in all versions, including FIFA 16 on a PC. Reviews about this have already begun to appear on the Internet, and in the near future, most likely, jokes, videos and memes will begin to appear on the network, the main characters of which will be the goalkeepers from this game.
Fut draft
It's no secret that one of the most popular modes of modern FIFA is UT, that is, the Ultimate Team. There you assemble a team of cards of players who must be played among themselves. In general, the regime is very difficult to describe in words, but it gained fame crazy. And on the basis of it in the new game something new appeared - FUT Draft. This mode is a game with a huge interspersed random factor. First, you have the opportunity to choose a large number of players and schemes that suit you, and then a random game starts appearing in your game that forces you to use not the schemes that you wanted, and also to play not by the players that you like. But this mode allows you to get to know the game more deeply, to feel all its aspects. Only in this way will you be able to understand what FIFA 16 actually is - the feedback from the players about this mode is almost all positive, and this is not surprising. It is possible that the draft will be a new version of UT, which will even overtake its predecessor.
Career mode
Particular attention should be paid to one of the most important and popular modes in the game - a career. There are also plenty of changes. Firstly, there were pre-season training matches that will allow you to earn money at the same time, allow players to get in shape and play in a new tactical arrangement. Secondly, now there is also a training process that allows you to take five specific players of your team every week and deal with them, increasing specific characteristics, as well as maintaining shape. Now you can even slow down the aging of experienced leaders who are already over 30 - in the previous versions of the game they inevitably became useless ballast, but now you can save them in shape much longer.
And, of course, there are enough other pleasant things, including improving the work of scouts, the possibility of signing free agents at any time of the year, and even renting not for a year, but for two. Many of these features people already appreciated in FIFA 16 Demo (PC) - feedback before the game was released was positive, and later, when gamers saw the big picture, they got even better.
Russian commentators
Finally, Russian fans of the game can rejoice - there was a change in commentators, and now for the new version, comments were written not by Rozanov and Soloviev, but Genich and Cherdantsev - one of the most prominent personalities in this industry today. And their bright and funny comments significantly improved the atmosphere, although even they still lack the emotionality and variety of the original.
conclusions
That’s all it’s worth telling about the new part of the world famous football simulator. In places, he lacks polishing, some kind of sharp progressive leaps, but in general this is still the same great simulator, which has been greatly changed, and guaranteed for the better, as confirmed by numerous reviews of fans and newcomers to the genre on the network. Naturally, it was not without discontent, which pointed to the women's teams, and the lack of changes in unpopular regimes, but in general FIFA became only better.