REVIEW: FIFA 22 – Game guide for parents and teachers

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What is FIFA?

• A football game in which football players are managed by a team
• Renders the real sport of football with real rules, footballers, and teams from all over the world
• You can also be a football coach and choose tactics, sell/buy football players, manage your budget, and so on
• In “Ultimate Team,” you compete against others online. Here you’ll build a football team by constantly buying and selling better footballers.

Age limit: 3 years from PEGI

Marked with: Buying opportunities (random winnings/loot boxes)

Please note:

• Cyberbullying/vulgar communication in the in-game chat
• Buying options. In “Ultimate Team,” you can pay to get better football players so that you get a competitive advantage against others. Here you buy packages of footballers, but you don’t know in advance which footballers you actually get. Content is random
• As in professional football, there are displays of the names of the sponsors and advertising of sports equipment and the like.

You can read a detailed review of FIFA 22 here.

What can children and young people learn from FIFA?

• Football rules, names of players, and football teams
• Tactics and planning
• Budget and statistics
• Communication and collaboration
• Competition and mastery

Smart settings:

• Set password locks for unforeseen purchases on your device
• Make spending deals with your kids if you are allowing them to purchase in-game content: how much/how often or not at all
• The game has a chat option and contact lists, and users can be reported and blocked

Discussion questions with children and adolescents:

• What is your favorite FIFA team/player?
• Which modes do you like best in FIFA (Ultimate Teams/Tournaments/Volta)
• Tell me about the best game you have ever played.
• Do you think it’s stupid that others can pay money to win in Ultimate Team?

Glossary:

• Ultimate team – A separate part of FIFA where you build a football team from scratch and compete against others online. Called FUT on short form
• Football Cards/Packs – A random selection of football players that can be obtained by playing FIFA or by paying real money
• FIFA Points – The game’s own currency that you can buy for real money. Among other things, you can purchase packages of football cards (football players) and other digital content
• Career – A way to play FIFA where you are either a team coach, a team player, or a single football player
• XP – Experience points you get when playing FIFA
• Volta – Football, but on indoor or street courts with fewer players at a time

(This is part of a series of short articles about popular video games reviewed by ‘Barnevakten’, a Norwegian non-profit foundation that works to ensure safe and conscious media use of children and adolescents.)
Also read:
Game guide for parents and teachers: Minecraft
Game guide for parents and teachers: Fortnite
Game guide for parents and teachers: Roblox

(Translated from Norwegian by Ratan Samadder)