fifa 15 10 tweaks to make this the best fifa yet
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FIFA 15: 10 Tweaks To Make This
The Best FIFA Yet
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best-fifa-yet
FIFA 15 will mark the franchise’s first proper outing on next‐generation hardware with a title being
built from the ground up to tap into the superior horsepower of the Xbox One and PS4 consoles.
We have already seen what a huge difference this additional hardware can make with the re‐
release of FIFA 14 for next‐gen – the game was markedly more crisp looking and finally did away
with the so‐called ‘cardboard cut‐out’ fans to be replaced by far more life‐like spectators. With FIFA
15’s highly anticipated release later this year there is a growing feeling among fans that this title
could be the one to address some of the series’ persistent shortcomings. This isn’t to say FIFA is in
any way a poor game – the football sim is hands down the best video game of its kind, there are
just tweaks to be made to make it even better. As fans we obviously want EA to implement
additional changes, tweaks and innovations to make this next‐gen debut the finest FIFA game yet.
It’s hard to think of an occasion when a new entry into the FIFA franchise hasn’t been superior to
its predecessor – EA have a very good track record in this regard and there is no reason to doubt
that FIFA 15 shouldn’t be the best in the long‐running series. There are a number of outstanding
issues or absent features which EA need to resolve in order to take their game to the next level.
The customer is always right so give the people what they want EA! So with that in mind, here are
the 10 Tweaks To Make This The Best FIFA Yet.
10. Dynamic Weather
It takes you away from the ultra‐realistic experience that is FIFA when you’ve played a full 90‐
minute game and the torrential downpour hasn’t eased up once. Clearly such a meteorological
scenario isn’t entirely outside the realms of possibility but it would be nice to see a slightly broader
range of possibilities. It’s May right now and across the country we are experiencing a mishmash
of sunny spells mixed in with heavy showers – this should be a possibility in FIFA 15. A game should
be able to start sunny and end dampened by rain and vice versa. Not to sound too pedantic but in
FIFA it either rains or it doesn’t, making no room for degrees of rain. A game which goes to such
great lengths to achieve ultra‐realism should permit for a broad degree of different weather
intensities, from an unobtrusive drizzle to a full‐on monsoon. While we’re talking about weather
related details we might as well highlight how stupid it is that a game can see two halves of
ceaseless, unrelenting rain yet Real Madrid will still walk out with their kits whiter than white.
Throw some mud on the situation, EA!
9. The Twelfth Man
The ability to have matches against your friend with a system keeping track of them was a long
overdue addition which was unanimously well received by fans of the world’s best football‐sim the
world over. Surely even the next‐gen hardware offered by the PS4 or Xbox One is unnecessary in
transferring Online Friendlies to Ultimate Team? It seems like more of an oversight on EA’s part as
opposed to technological limitations inhibiting it. Ultimate Team is FIFA’s most widely played game
mode and it makes absolutely no sense that we are unable to track our contests against our friends.
We all want to have the opportunity to take our team of the world’s greatest players – meticulously
chosen and adapted to suit our specific playing style – and use it to make our friends pray that they
are never unlucky enough to cross us again. However, without any tracking facilities you are only
as good as your last game and will never be able to build up a reputation as definitively being the
best.
7. Historic Teams
FIFA offers us a near‐exhaustive list of every club of note on the planet yet it still doesn’t quite boot
the ball out the stadium. It must be remembered that FIFA is a game and it would be appreciated
if we had the ability to choose from a selection of teams in exhibition mode we can’t see play week‐
in‐week‐out on Sky Sports 1. Granted – we already have the limited options of the World XI and
Legends XI (both stacked with notable absentees) but why not push the boundaries with the game’s
proper next‐gen debut? It would be nice to see the introduction of some historically great teams
as notably utilised by the Madden series. Want to see what all the hype about the Liverpool team
of the early 80s was? Want to relive Ferguson’s glory days with that United squad of the late 90s?
Forgotten how good that 2004 Arsenal side were? There’s no reason why sides such as these
shouldn’t be honoured with a playable FIFA team.
6. The Collection
Ultimate Team stalwarts will remember a time when FIFA collided with the world of Pokémon, to
excellent effect. One of the pivotal maxims of Pokémon – “gotta catch ‘em all” – was applied to
Ultimate Team as the player was tasked with completing a virtual sticker book of the game’s players,
not dissimilar from the world cup book flooding the aisles at Sainsbury’s. As an alternative to
discarding a player and receiving a negligible amount of coins in return you could instead send
them to your Collection. Bonuses would be received for completing full teams and you would also
have a record of the greats who once occupied your Ultimate Team if your word was ever to be
doubted. It was a shocking development when they scrapped The Collection a couple of
instalments ago as it seemed to bring only positives to the table. EA would be well advised to
reintroduce this sporting‐Pokédex to proceedings with FIFA 15.
5. Champions League
It is a strange fact that club football’s biggest competition in the Champions League is completely
missing from FIFA. EA Sport’s superb soccer‐sim is bursting with game modes, tournaments and
leagues yet for some unknown reason offers the so‐called European Cup in the Champions League’s
stead. It may come as some surprise to the many not acquainted with the football gaming world’s
notorious runner‐up Pro Evolution Soccer, but Konami’s game actually possesses the licence to the
Champions League. Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 was recently made free for Playstation Plus
subscribers only to be shunned as a lesser alternative to the FIFA experience. In short, PES just isn’t
FIFA. Possessing all the other rights to the licence of teams, stadiums and badges, it would make
far more sense for FIFA to have the Champions League rights.
4. Fix Transfer Market Glitches
On far too many occasions will a player be in need of a contract to allow their star forward to have
a few extra games, only to click onto the transfer market to be told that zero such items are listed
right not. That’s right – no contracts available in the whole world right now… Unfortunately, such
examples are but the tip of the iceberg as far as the buying and selling of commodities goes on FIFA
Ultimate Team. All too often players are reporting the loss of coins or valuable cards – which after
all do pertain to some actual monetary value – due to EA’s severs being seemingly unable to cope
with the high volume of action they must experience at all hours of the day on Ultimate Team. A
great deal of time and effort goes into acquiring these virtual chunks of gold and so for them to
sometimes vanish into a state of non‐existence is infuriating to say the least. At the very least some
security systems should be put in place with FIFA 15 to ensure that we have some way of recouping
these senseless loses.
3. Heading Adjustments
Heading is clearly a huge part of the modern game, both on the back‐foot making vital clearances
with the likes of John Terry or Vincent Kompany or utilising the heads of strikers who have become
heading‐specialists like Radamel Falcao or Fernando Llorente. However, when you’ve been on the
receiving end of a headed hat‐trick from Sebastian Giovinco you do have to start contemplating
that maybe those brain‐boxes over at EA Montreal have placed slightly too much stock in the power
of the head. The headed goal can be a thing of true beauty but witnessing a player like the
aforementioned Sebastian Giovinco and his 5’3” frame leap – like a salmon out of water – over the
back of 6’6” Brede Hangeland to head the ball in really does leave you scratching your head. Rather
than just repeatedly smacking the shoot button after deploying a tasty looking ball from the win
you should instead have to time the jump of your forward to make things slightly more demanding.
2. Authentic Managers
In a game which has quite evidently gone to painstaking measures to guarantee realism, it is almost
baffling that authentic managers are their likenesses aren’t included to stand on the touchline with
their team. Every year we see how accurately they’ve replicated Rooney’s jaw‐line or how true‐to‐
life Cristiano Ronaldo’s use of hair‐gel is so to not have actual managers seems like a glaring
omission. With the huge personalities involved in modern football management and how
frequently they make headlines they certainly should have a place in the FIFA franchise. In
particular, leading managing figures should be included such as Jõse Mourinho (complete with
swagger), Arsene Wenger (complete with copiously long coat), Alan Pardew (complete with
attitude) and Tony Pulis (complete with CPFC‐merchandise cap). The new FIFA World Cup game
features 19 licenced managers to do the strategic work alongside the players. This represents a
huge step in the right direction. Let’s hope EA run with this idea and implement it into FIFA 15.
1. Wager Mode
Football and gambling will always go hand‐in‐hand – it is just one of life’s inevitable facts. With this
in mind it should come as no surprise that fans have been clamouring for some time for the
introduction of a wager mode into the newest instalment of FIFA. These high‐stakes games would
either be played for a mutually agreeable bounty of coins or a suitable player. Though these games
could potentially cause no end of arguments in school classrooms (or offices), there can be no
denying the fact that the anxiety and tension would lead to some extremely entertaining moments.
Already unsanctioned wager matches are rife on FIFA with Ultimate Team‐fanatics taking to twitter
or other online hangouts to arrange these unofficial wagers. As you might expect given the
unsavoury nature of many of FIFA’s online players, this type of agreement regularly results in
players getting scammed out of their prized FUT possessions. By introducing a governed wager
facility FIFA would not only add an extremely interesting mode to their Ultimate Team suite but
would also eliminate the reprehensible work of the scammers.
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