FIFA’s Volta Mode Is Good, Actually

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Remember FIFA Street? FIFA Street was great. Ronaldinho doing his elasticos and skinning a bunch of kids, Ronaldo with his half-moon hair dinking the ball off the wall and spinning past three opponents clad head-to-toe in Nike to blast it in the back of the net. FIFA Street was somehow better with Brazilians, but at the same time it felt like playing with a tattered football in your street as a kid.

FIFA Street felt like how you imagined you were playing when you were young, before you were old enough to realise that you were actually kind of shit, a couple of stepovers did not a Premier League player make, and Liverpool wasn’t going to scout you from in front of your own house.

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Volta mode is FIFA’s current iteration of FIFA Street. It does feel like EA making a statement saying, “no we won’t make a standalone FIFA Street game again, but you can have this, I guess,” but it’s better than nothing. It’s a spiritual successor and a simplified version of the OG, but you can do mad skills and don’t have to dress like a full kit wanker, so it’s already a good start.

I played through the Career Mode when I reviewed FIFA 21, but didn’t engage much further. It was a fun superstar-filled adventure with terrible ‘Landan’ accents, but I was soon pulled away for some Ultimate Team grinding. However, that recently changed. I’ve been playing through It Takes Two with my brother, and we usually end our gaming session with a quick match of FIFA or two. We used to just play Kick Off matches to reenact our Liverpool v Chelsea rivalry, and then moved onto House Rules for fun with Mystery Balls and players being sent off if they score a goal. Then we tried Volta.

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