It also does not help that, in contrast, the general aesthetic of FIFA this year is more futuristic than ever: there are neon colours present everywhere and FUT made headlines for selling anime cosmetics. However, even though the graphics are generally good, at select moments, the game looks dated. HyperMotion also somewhat helps make FIFA 22 look better: players react rather naturally to coming into contact with the ball or other players in a way that adds to the visual spectacle of the game. On the gameplay side, then, probably my favourite feature is the deeper match analysis, which can help you understand how you and your opponent are performing – it is very helpful to see a breakdown of the key aspects of the match and how you fare in expected goals and other vital stats. For example, the defenders and goalkeepers are indeed better in FIFA 22, but this matters less when so much of the game is still dictated by sheer speed and pace. Whereas HyperMotion also touts that it would improve the AI, and this is true, the changes are marginal. This is also because so much of the game’s animations, from celebrations to taking a free-kick, are recycled from previous entries so that it is hard to really pin-point what precisely is new at times. I could notice more dynamism in the way my players moved, at least at first, but then eventually I sort of forgot that there were new animations added to the game to begin with. As a result of this, EA have added over 4000 new player animations to FIFA 22 which would theoretically add variety to the gameplay experience.Īnd yet, whereas this sounds great, this feature is nowhere as game-changing as it should have been.
EA describe HyperMotion as the ‘ foundation’ for this entry’s gameplay, with HyperMotion combining full-team mocap data and machine learning in order to create more authentic football. The same can be said about HyperMotion, which, as I mentioned earlier, is the feature which seeks to set FIFA 22 apart from other iterations in the franchise. Even the implementation of the haptics and the adaptive triggers for the PS5 version, which is the one I played and am reviewing, is unsatisfying. And if last year I was more lenient, since FIFA 21 was the franchise’s first game on net platforms, this year, I do not think it is unfair to have expected the game to be more impressive than it is. On ’current-gen’, then, despite the game being in 60 FPS and despite the fact that the loading times are almost non-existent, there is little on the technical side to make FIFA 22 a ‘current-gen’ showpiece of any sorts.
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Making matters even worse is the fact that PC players got snubbed this year as well, as HyperMotion, this year’s frontrunning feature, which I will cover in a moment, is exclusively available for ‘current-gen’ consoles – for no good reason. And FIFA 19 on Switch was never particularly good in the first place, either. For example, for the Nintendo Switch, FIFA 22 is literally the same experience as FIFA 19, save for the roster and stadium updates. Minor improvements to the game’s many different game modes are welcome and it is great to see that yet another handful of national leagues (such as the Magyar League and the Liga Cyprus) were added but there is simply nothing particularly substantial about this year’s release.įurthermore, as it has been the case for a few years now, there are huge discrepancies between the many versions of FIFA 22 out on the market. But, rather, this is to say that FIFA 22 is a lacklustre release that does not feel quite justified. This all is not to say, however, that FIFA 22 is necessarily a lacking experience, as a lot of what made FIFA great in the past is still present in FIFA 22. In fact, at large, FIFA 22 does not go out of its way to add anything particularly new or interesting, with this year’s iteration truly feeling like yet another annual refresh, meant primarily for people who keep up with roster updates and/or play FIFA Ultimate Team ( FUT), by far the game’s most played game mode, competitively. Last time CGM reviewed an entry in the FIFA series, more than four years ago, Adam Chapman praised FIFA 18’s story mode, The Journey, calling it a ‘truly immersive experience.’ A lot has changed in the years since and, after numerous failed attempts, EA seems to have dropped story modes completely.