EA Sports Should Follow Visual Concepts And Remake FIFA's Game Engine

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EA is one of the biggest gaming companies in the world and is a household name when it comes to sports video games. Over the years, though, the company has consistently promised meaningful and exciting changes in its FIFA titles and has unfortunately disappointed most fans by providing stale gameplay with few changes. The lack of changes in titles has hurt the series, as more and more fans have decided to move onto other games like eFootball. Further,the upcoming UFL game could be a genre-defining title that will hurt FIFA and other EA titles even more.

For years now, fans have been hoping that EA would make significant changes to not only the gameplay but also the online and offline game modes. While FIFA 22 did implement certain changes, like adding old features such as the quick and visual sim option for games alongside Create-A-Club, most of the offline FIFA game modes do not have any meaningful changes. Fortunately, another sports game has shown how useful a new engine can be in shaking up a franchise.

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Following the introduction of Technical Defending, there have not been any major changes to the gameplay during matches. The core concept of the matches in FIFA remains the same, and with little to no improvement made to the way the A.I. plays the game, the offline game modes get extremely boring. This also boils down to the fact that the game has an extremely predictable A.I. that is easy to beat and only gains the upper hand through unrealistic buffs during a game.

Stagnation has plagued FIFA’s gameplay since the release of FIFA 12, which was the last game that added big changes to the franchise. The gameplay in a match itself has been tweaked, but