FIFA 22

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PS4 and 5/Xbox One and Series S and X/Stadia/Windows. PEGI recommended age limit 3 years.

As surely as it is autumn holidays every year (in Norway at least), a new FIFA is also unveiled. The football game only gets small adjustments from year to year, but to get the latest teams, players, and technical updates – you have to buy a new game in the series.

No big changes, still FIFA continues to be one of the best football games on the market and offers a lot of sports enjoyment and competition for both young and the adults.

FIFA has acquired licenses from 17,000 players, more than 700 teams, over 90 stadiums, and more than 30 leagues from around the world. It is quite impressive, and you will find great football heroes from both the women’s and national teams.

The game developers have baked in a new technology called «HyperMotion». In practice, this means more realistic player movements on the football field. Twenty-two professional football players line up with their unique outfits, and their track movements are being transferred to animations on the game screen.

In addition, machine learning is used to create constantly new animations while playing. The artificial intelligence of the players has also been upgraded, which should provide improvements on both the defensive and attacking sides.

On the whole, one can expect better head-to-head contests, ball control, player animations, and computer intelligence. FIFA has always been good at this. Yes, in recent years player animations have become so good that one can hardly glimpse whether it is a real football match or a computer game.

The goalkeeper has also been given better settings to prevent goal scorers. In addition, the ball-physics has been upgraded – the ball’s response to speed, air resistance, and friction. All this helps to provide more natural movements on the court. But then again, FIFA has always been good at this, even in previous games in the series.

In career mode, one can now create one’s own club and give it a name. You can then jump into any league and fight for first place in the table. It is also possible to create your own outfits, logos, and home stadium.

Or as before, you can also jump into a career mode as a single player or manage a team. Here it is a matter of taking care of everything, from tactics to player purchases, the board’s objectives, and other activities regarding football matches.

Volta football continues to be part of FIFA with a greater focus on dribbling, street football, and fewer players on each team.

Players have been given more skills to help and a new reward system. In addition, you can play cannonball and football tennis – right enough with feet and football. And then there’s a good dose of other mini-games, whether it’s to capture land or to collect as many footballs as possible.

There is little doubt that Electronic Arts (EA) is trying a slightly different competition and party mode to spice up the experience a little extra.

FIFA Ultimate Team continues at the same pace as before.

Here you have to build your own football team from scratch and compete against other online gamers. You can buy packages of football player cards for real money. The more money you spend, the better you get to face your opponents.

You can certainly build up your team by playing a lot. It will be helpful if you have good skills in the football game. Many people like this part of FIFA that offers competition and social interaction with friends and others online.

There are several opportunities to design your own stadium, new elite competitive modes, and FUT heroes — iconic football players throughout history that can become yet another source of revenue for EA games as you can buy them for real money.

FIFA 22 is a great football game. More than being a brand-new release, one can instead look at the FIFA games as annual releases with small updates and adjustments.

Here you get access to teams and football heroes from all over the world, both women and men. One minute you’re competing against a friend on the same screen. After that, you might play alone in career mode and take care of everything from formations to tactics, player purchases, and more.

Then it’s out on the field and hitting a lovely pass, building up an attack, and then enjoying the cheers from the spectators when the ball hits the net. FIFA 22 delivers a lot of football enjoyment and an authentic experience all the way.

The introduction is fantastic right from the start. Here you create your own avatar and get to run and dribble through the streets of Paris. Then you take the first steps into the home stadium of PSG. Here you will meet Thierry Henry, Kylian Mbappé, and David Beckham.

It’s great to go in as a beginner and enter the stadium among the big ones. Here there’s «gold and glitter» for all the money. At the same time, perhaps it says something about how lavish the sport has become?

The presentation is also very good. The whole run-up to the games with music, the teams walking onto the field, ball boys and girls, portrayals of real football heroes. With the opportunity of attending famous tournaments, whether it’s the World Cup or European and national tournaments, there’s an endless hour of football fun.

Not least, children and the young will always have something to reach for. You don’t just have to deal with the player with defense and attack right then and there. You also have to give orders on the speed of the teammates, set up tactics, and build your own teams.

FIFA has never been so complex and composed before. There is a lot to take in here for those who really want to immerse themselves in the sport.

Skill

FIFA 22 has received an age recommendation of 3 years from PEGI, i.e., the lowest. The game is marked with purchasing options.

Parents should pay attention to the possibilities of in-game purchases for real money. In «Ultimate Team», one has to build one’s own football team to compete against others online. For this, you can buy packages of football players, and this is divided into bronze, silver, and gold packages. You can buy these player card packs with virtual money (coins) that you earn by making progress in the game, or you can use real money and buy «FIFA points». It is not possible to know exactly which footballers you get when you buy card packages, so the outcome is difficult to predict. Although a probability calculation has been given for different categories of football players.

The game store Steam states this term: «This game includes optional in-game purchases of virtual currency that can be used to acquire virtual in-game items, including a random selection of virtual in-game items.»

The truly famous football heroes are very rare and appear randomly in card packs. So, in practice, you can spend thousands of kroner buying card packs without Messi showing up for that reason.

It can be tempting to spend real money on «Ultimate Team», as this provides in-game benefits, as well as quick access to the heroes of the sport. One can play and get progress and rewards without spending real money, but this is very time-consuming. Real money thus acts as a shortcut. And all that you achieve in this edition of FIFA goes to zero when you buy the next edition. So, it’s going to be a constant roundabout to get your dream team.

By the way, FIFA 22 has a lot of content for those who want to play «regular» mode online, or with friends. This is a good way for children and young people to get to know the sport, football rules, tactics, player and team names, and other aspects of the football world, both on and off the court. In career mode, you can learn more about what it takes to create a good team.

The game also includes a lot of math with an interpretation of tables, financial management, player and team statistics, timing, and more.

To play online, some game consoles require an online subscription that must be purchased outside.

There is also a thirteen-year limit on terms and conditions for creating an EA Account that applies to playing online. The dilemma then is that children under the age of thirteen have to «lie about their age» when creating an EA Account, and on PlayStation, they have to play on a parent’s account, which means that you can’t use good parental control settings.

FIFA also contains a lot of advertising in the stadium and the like with posters from real brands.

One can also chat in the game with voice and text.

Difficulty:

3-6 years: Can be difficult for the very youngest to control football players and navigate menus.

7-11 years: The game can be mastered by children of this age group. You can adjust the difficulty level of your opponent so that the challenge adapts to the child’s level. The game also has a training sequence and various training modes that fine-tune the skills of defense, midfield, and attack. And you can turn on aids like passing aid, shooting help, and more.

12-15 years: The game will also be challenging for older children and young people. You can increase the difficulty level of your opponent, and on the internet, you will constantly be able to meet gamers with different skill levels.

16+: The game will offer football enjoyment for young adults as well as adults.

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(Written on 6 October 2021. Translated from Norwegian to English by Ratan.)