FIFA 22 heralds the next technological advancement in the field of virtual football, even though it doesn't completely reinvent the ball but the attacking and defense gameplay is more fluid from moment to moment. Inconsistencies in goalkeeping and visuals aside the fact that this year's FIFA 23 Coins is one of the most refined and enjoyable multiplayer sports games available on the market. New features across Career Mode and Volta Football have made FIFA's most popular modes more enjoyable to play.
Microtransactions still loom large however, small changes as well as the performance of the latest generation consoles makes FIFA 22 feel like a worthy upgrade, without needing anything new or particularly exciting by EA's side. -- Jordan Oloman, September 27, 2021
Player Career has a new persona system that lets you perform, in the most dramatic of air quotes, pretend to be your chosen footballer. For me, this amounted to receiving 25 "MaverickPoints that I used to buy a "High-end Hybrid Mattress' for a Serbian striker playing in the K-League as well, so you could imagine how long I stuck with this.
You are now able to select an actual Manager (or Ted Lasso, however real you believe him to become) you can play in Manager Career too, but other than playing as a mute Jason Sudekis, or dress Eddie Howe in a lovely sweater vest, there's no reason to look at the bizarre cutscenes. The time spent importing AFC Richmond for its brief novelty might have been better used on, including, for example, the inclusion of Women's Club Football into Career Mode, but that's still not in the game. It's unfortunate since women's soccer is a compelling example of the potential of EA's HyperMotion motion-capture technology. It provides real-time animations that raise the immersive tension.
It's true that cheap FIFA 23 Coins still has the potential to be irritating. Goalkeepers may collapse in an avalanche instead of trying to make a save and there are few situations more tedious than match-up with a dope on Seasons who seems more interested in doing endless complicated steps and tricks than actually playing football.
