Worst Fifa game since 1996

As if I'm reading my own review..

I'm a FIFA player since the '98 version, mainly online seasons.  I used to love this game.  Often when i looked at live football, I recognized certain situations from the game.  Or looked for moves in real football that I could use in my own gameplay.  I don't have this for years anymore.  All I can think of when I'm playing EA FC is: this is stupid/ridiculous. It doesn't look like football at all anymore.  It's like hornets swarming over your screen instead of watching footballl.

The only thing you need in this game is speed.  Good players with high rankings are useless as long as they can't run, and skills are overrated.  I usually play Man City, so most of my games are against Real Madrid, since that's what most players choose to play with (or just bad match fixing).  I wonder if the makers of this game ever watch real football, like the double confrontation in the Champions League for instance.  Where Man City totally dominated Real, crushing them like a fly (Real won in the end because of one fast counter attack, but that is not my point).  Never ever did I experience something like that in the game, no matter how many games I played.  Most of the time I'm running behind Real players who are twice as fast as mine, or when I have the ball, lose it immediately because of the stupid, unreal pressure system in this game.  It's just impossible to play like the real City in EA FC.

Meanwhile you read all these nice promises of 'How even more realistic' the new version will be.  Let me tell you there is NOTHING realistic on a Courtois outrunning a Foden in a sprinting duel for the ball.  Or how easy Carvahal pushes away Haaland in this game.  The whole game is just one endless drag of frustrations caused by buttons that don't work, passes going wrong, players that pass, run or score through defenders, etc.  Potentially good games are sabotaged by inconsistent working EA servers and bugs in the system.

For a whole year I'm reading the same experiences all over the internet as described above and from what i read about the new EA 25, it is still exactly the same.  EA did jack [removed] about any of the problems in connectivity, gameplay or overall functionalities of the game.

But hey, at least Cristiano Ronaldo looks a little more like the real one in the new EA FC, and that is in the end the reason why we buy this game for, no?!

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