{"id":123957,"date":"2020-10-19T11:13:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T15:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballfashion.org\/wordpress\/?p=123957"},"modified":"2020-12-16T23:46:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T04:46:16","slug":"review-ea-sports-fifa-21-ps4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballfashion.org\/wordpress\/2020\/10\/19\/review-ea-sports-fifa-21-ps4\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: EA Sports FIFA 21 (PS4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A favorite of professional footballers, eSports athletes and an army of gamers worldwide, EA Sports FIFA 20<\/strong> dropped in early October. Since then the game has possibly seen billions of hours of offline and online game play around the world. Here\u2019s our World Exclusive<\/strong> look at another great offering of the title on the Sony PlayStation 4.
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EA Sports FIFA 21 will be the firm\u2019s first game to be released on the next generation of gaming consoles – The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. As we await the drop of these units we have been thoroughly enjoying FIFA 21 on the PlayStation 4 along with millions of other gamers around the world. Scroll on for our World Exclusive review of a title that is now a fixture on the soccer calendar as much as the kickoff dates of the many leagues that it includes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Updates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EA Sports FIFA 21 continues the series trend of delivering new, soccer-pertinent features on an annual basis. The most obvious improvements in FIFA 21 are in the title\u2019s gameplay and Career Mode team management mode. Here\u2019s a look at the key updates in FIFA 21. We\u2019ll delve into each throughout the course of our review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agile Dribbling<\/strong> – The updated system brings the VOLTA street soccer influence throughout FIFA 21 with easier to execute and new skill moves via the right stick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Positioning Personality and Runs<\/strong> – AI and player controlled players in FIFA 21 are smarter when it comes to positioning themselves in anticipation of plays that their teammates and opposition might make. This ranges from supporting runs on attack to closing space on defence.
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Creative Runs<\/strong> – FIFA 21 has improved the ability to control attacking playing via triggering directed runs and pass and go movements with the right stick. A new featured called Player Lock lets you lock on a particular attacking player with support coming from teammates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natural Collision System<\/strong> – EA Sports has reworked the collision system in FIFA 21 for a more authentic soccer feel. It works better than ever before especially during defensive plays as defenders and goalies fend off sieges from world class opposition.
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Fundamentals of Football<\/strong> – FIFA 21 has improvements in player positioning that allows for more effective passing, more realistic defensive blocks, player reaction time when under pressure, and more effective manual headers. EA Sports has grouped these into the aptly called \u201cFundamentals of Football.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Menu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FIFA 21\u2019s menu system would be familiar to anyone playing the game since the 2015 edition of the title. The quite effective and well-aged mosaic interface remains intuitive and quickly takes you to whatever part of the game you wish to kick off action in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instructional splash screens explaining what you can do in each section of the game have been added to highlight new features and probably for the army of new FIFA gamers who join our ranks each year. They\u2019re quite well done via series of three icons each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The menu for Career Mode has been augmented with a few new options related to player development and team schedules. VOLTA\u2019s menu remains more or less the same as its debut season in FIFA 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The look and feel of FIFA Ultimate Team is the biggest menu change to FIFA 21. The immensely popular section of the title has an evolved look and feel that is based on its new features and playing options such as its customized FUT Stadium and FUT Co-op. It does take about fifteen minutes of navigating around to get used to. After that you\u2019ll be flying around FUT to dominate the world with your bespoke team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphics and Presentation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Player, kit, stadium, crowd, manager and referee renderings are well done in EA Sports FIFA 21 as usual. They\u2019re all about as good as it can get given the aging capabilities of the PS4 and XBox One GPUs as we await the arrival of the next generation of gaming consoles.
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Player and manager likenesses are sharpened up a bit compared to FIFA 20 with just about every big name in the same instantly recognizable. Player movement continues to improve towards fully natural motion with collisions showing a big improvement. There are also noticeable additions in player facial and eye movements during lineups that are quite lifelike. These range from blinking to basic mouth movements to facial sweat. The stoic look of the statuesque players of past soccer simulations is now definitely behind us in the FIFA series.
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