While it’s difficult to avoid the series’ recurring issue of being too dependent on fast players, FIFA 23 does reward precision in execution across the board FUT 23 Coins. My fingers are hurting from pulling the triggers and jockeying for dangerous counter-attacks. Also, the force of a pass must be tweaked, which is hard to master but satisfying when you hit the perfect through ball.

Rogue tackles will also leave you exposed by holding the buttons that accompany them for too long can lead to a dangerous crunching stance that sometimes pays off – but, more often than not the result is a nail-biting penalty. The tackling of the last person back into an extremely risky, but thrilling challenge.

The changes made result in FIFA 23 a more sluggish game in comparison to FIFA 23. However, the advantage is that matches are always meaningful. There’s a lot of drama throughout the game, and typically more than one goal per game, both single-player and onlinegames, and extremely few draws with 0-0 scores. In keeping with the spectacle any goal worthy of a shot will produce a victory lap slow-motion replays, with statistics overlayed, guaranteeing that the hard drives and social feeds around the globe will be overflowing with viral goal clips by year’s end.

Set Pieces are equally convincing they give you more control over the power and curl of your corners as well as free kicks. It took me a while to get used to, however, the free kicks improved upon me in the end, as they’re significantly more intricate and far superior to the chaotic stick-pulling game of previous years. Similar to Penalty shootouts, they play out like an intense rhythm game. One that’s to the gods.

FIFA 23 also comes with an upgrade in visuals, though the process is more iterative and slow than last year’s jump towards PS5 as well as Series X – focusing this time around scuffy grass and the bouncy hairstyles buy FIFA 23 Coins. It’s primarily seen in players’ animations on the pitch instead of actual faces which aren’t the same in quality among cover stars or regular players as well as the cult-like crowd.