FIFA’s passing has always felt quite slack to me and something that PES almost perfected last year, but it’s FIFA’s turn to make something as simple as passing the ball between three players one of its most compelling traits. It’s immensely satisfying to put together a string of passes, or just to distribute the ball out wide. The best gameplay change, however, has to come from FIFA 18’s passing, which feels like throwing cucumbers down butter slides. It’s a neat addition, but should arguably be assigned to another button as it tends to randomly crop up if you’re playing on alternative controls. The AI can either chuck some random suggestions at you (it once tried to get me to swap Oumar Niasse for Ross Barkley) or you can assign your own to one of three slots. Quick substitutions allow you to swap players out without having to hit pause, asking you to hold down R2 when the ball is out of play instead. There are a couple of other new gameplay quirks, too. Instead, FIFA 18 asks that you squeeze players out with pressure and force them into mistakes, or force them down difficult avenues so that it’s easier to pick the ball off of them. Jockeying has never been more important along with the timeliness of your interceptions: it’s often a bad idea to charge down the opposition. It’s a little alarming to see high-scoring draws to begin with (the Real/Atletico prelude ended in a 6-5 win for me), but it’s the game’s very blunt way of telling you to change the way you play. It’s a welcome change that makes all AI matches feel closer to the real thing, far more tactical than just distributing it to the wings and holding down sprint.ĭefending is also not quite as simple as before with EA Sports seemingly toning down how much the AI helps you out. The solution that I have found most effective is one-two passing combined with some tricks because lingering on the ball or just trying to sprint past them more often than not results in dispossession. The AI must have been stocking up on its B vitamins as they’re relentless and almost robotically efficient in their defending they have an answer for almost everything. There’s a big emphasis on speed this year with fast wingers more often than not making the difference – at least when playing online.
It’s a little overwhelming at first and feels as if it’s catering primarily to Premier League fans, but it’s a breathless and incredibly satisfying game of football all the same. The most obvious changes in the gameplay department have proved to be some of the game’s most controversial: FIFA 18 is about as frenetic on the pitch as a pack of Jack Russell Terriers chasing the same toy. Some of its harshest critics say it’s more akin to a FIFA 17.5 and there’s definitely weight to that argument, but whereas I could quite easily wander away from FIFA 17 and find something better to do, FIFA 18 is tough to shake.
#Fifa 18 gameplay vs fifa 17 series#
There’s no genre-defining revolution to be found here, rather a series of small but noticeable changes that improve on what came before it. You just tweak and update, add new features that could work and take away those that don’t.įIFA 18 is no different. After over twenty years of developing and refining the simulated football experience, how can you continue to redefine what you’ve built to make kicking around a pigskin on some grass as satisfying as possible? The short answer: you don’t.
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