Real Madrid has quite a team in EA Sports FC 25 (Electronic Arts)
The new EA Sports FC 25 introduces Rush mode, revamped tactics, and a new AI system, but it’s not the convincing win it could’ve been.
EA Sports FC 24 was a very important release in the history of football games. After 30 years of success, EA decided to walk away from its licensing deal with FIFA and create a new game under its own name. That was risk but it instantly paid off and already EA Sports FC is firmly established as the premier football franchise – and basically just FIFA under a different name.
This year’s edition aims to go even further, as it adds a new 5v5 mode, completely revamps how tactics work, and introduces a new AI system to make players around you smarter and more realistic in the decision they make during matches.
It’s an ambitious step forward by EA, but although they get a lot of things right the biggest changes don’t quite work as well as they could have.
As we said during our initial hands-on preview of EA Sports FC 25, the new game mode Rush is a lot of fun. After exploring it further, that still rings true, especially if you play co-op online or with friends.
Rush replaces Volta and is a 5v5 mode lasting 10 minutes per game. It has a much smaller pitch, where your success is based on how good you are in one-on-ones and how quickly you can think on your feet. Amusingly, it also has a blue card, which is given after serious fouls, or two yellow cards, and sidelines the player for one minute. But if the other team scores during that time, the blue card clock decreases with each goal.
It’s quite intense but the commentators chime in with moments of comedic relief every now and then, which caught us by surprise, with quips like, ‘That’s way off target, that’s in another zip code!’ (So, yes, that’s one of the American commentators.)
While it’s fun, and the blue card is great, we would have loved to see more creative features added to Rush – maybe some other wacky cards – as it lends itself nicely to be a sillier escape from all the other, more traditional, modes.
The most impactful change in EA Sports FC 25, however, is its new AI, called FC IQ, which is powered by real-life data to make teammate and opponent players tactically smarter in the way they understand the game.
The effects of FC IQ while you’re playing a game are quite hard to notice at first, but in our experience it’s a mixed bag. On one hand the AI seems to be better at intercepting passes, predicting where you’ll dribble with the ball, and avoiding your tackles.
But on the other hand your teammate AI doesn’t understand that it should cover for you if you run out of position, and it doesn’t make many great runs on its own unless you …read more
Source:: Metro
