It's no longer FIFA, it's EA Sports FC 24 – but EA Sports new football-game barely feels like a fresh start for the series. While it provide proper additions like the Hypermotion V animations and their effects on the match-flow, career modes lack change and Ultimate Team is more pay-to-win than ever before.
EA Sports FC 24 has again taken advantage of being the only football game on the market. However, it's important not to overlook the areas where the game thinks about the player. Who knows, maybe one day, if we are a good boy, EA might even come up with a player-friendly soccer game.
A yearly sports title is hardly one to looks to when one thinks of gameplay updates and changes, but EA Sports FC 24 is proving to be the exception to the rule.
EA Sports FC 24 is a good football simulator and is a good start as the new FIFA brand. However, Electronic Arts needs to take a step forward in some of the aspects of the game and improve for future releases. A good game for football fans and for those who enjoyed FIFA 23.
EA has seemingly spent more resources on marketing the new name than improving the formula, and it's therefore very hard to recommend EA Sports FC 24 to all but the most dedicated fans.
As a player from Colombia, it's sad to see our national male team is not there. Also, our female national team, that had a great performance in the last World Cup, is not there. The Colombian professional league is also missing on FC24. Just a few Colombian clubs are available for playing the Libertadores and Suramericana cups.
Given that this is EA Sports first release without the FIFA tag, part of me had hoped that it was EA's opportunity to really pack in new features, refine game modes, and significantly increase content in order to make it seem as though the only thing holding them back in the last few years of producing mediocre football games was the overreaching nature of FIFA.
Unfortunately, this is just as much a "next entry" as any typical year of FIFA would have been.
The game play sees certain refinements with the adoption of the new gaming engine. This isn't a bad thing, as gameplay triggers seem slightly less obviously animation based than they were before.
The presentation, however, has to be the worst presentation perhaps to ever come out of an EA football game.
They've made a return to an old fashioned menu screen, which is clunky and impractical. The reason for this? Who knows. It makes no practical sense, as if there was one thing you could commend EA on, was its menu's being entirely clean and functional.
Most importantly, the matchday presentation has been side swiped in a way that could make a grown man cry... No pre-match presentation, no team walkouts, no team songs, no pre-game lineups, no champions league anthems... Whoever made this creative decision must genuinely have a vendetta against EA, or just simply hates the people who buy these games. Where's the quality control? How in the world did this get past any kind of testing...
Overall, another depressingly average entry in a series that has been void of any meaningful innovation or effort for over a decade now.
Menus and rest of user interface are flawless. Career mode has some good additions. Offline modes are generally decent. Online is unplayable, the input lag, speed up lag, players making the most basic passing/tackling mistakes even with 80+ passing stats. Arguably the worst it's been for a long time. Don't pay full price for this reskin of last years' game, wait for sale imo.
SummaryEA SPORTS FC™ 24 is a new era for The World’s Game: 19,000+ fully licensed players, 700+ teams, and 30+ leagues playing together in the most authentic football experience ever created.
Feel closer to the game with three cutting-edge technologies powering unparalleled realism in every match: HyperMotionV**, PlayStyles optimised by Opta...