🎮 FIFA 20 release: The most important changes | OneFootball

FIFA 20 had landed!

The standard version of the game is available from Friday – today – for players.

Here’s a look at the most important changes made to the latest edition of the game.

VOLTA

If you’ve been waiting years to finally play something akin to FIFA Street, then VOLTA is just the thing for you.

The game mode can be played online in a league system or offline with a story mode. You can play 3 v 3, 4 v 4 without goalkeepers, 4 v 4 or 5 v 5 with goalkeepers. Futsal with official rules. Bring your best skills.

Career Mode

Loved by fans, unloved by EA Sports. That’s how career mode has felt in recent years.

But worry no longer, there are finally some new features to play with. Managers can be personalised and, for the first time ever, you can create your own manager – that also means you can have a woman in the dugout for Premier League or Champions League games!

There are now press conferences too and conversations with the squad or individual players will have a big impact on the moral of your team. On top of that, transfer fees are more realistic and loan deals can now be struck with options or obligations to buy.

People looking for real life accuracy, though, may be disappointed by the revelation that a team like Manchester City can wind up getting relegated …

Ultimate Team

Are Division Rivals and the Weekend League too repetitive for you? Worry not, there’s been a change here too.

There are four types of tasks: Daily Tasks, Weekly Tasks, Season Tasks, and Dynamic Tasks. The latter are not cyclical, but emerge on an event-related basis. Here, by reaching particular milestones, the player collects experience points that unlock certain rewards. They could be packs, coins or special versions of certain cards.

The FUT friendly mode has also been made more attractive – playing here will no longer cost you contracts or fitness – and some new party modes have been included, offering goals that count twice, temporary speed or shooting boosts and a temporary player swap.

Gameplay

Where any football game lives or dies. So we have some good news: it’s better than FIFA 19.

AI controlled defenders are much more passive, asking more of the player. Those who rely on crosses will be disappointed to learn the effectiveness of heading has been massively corrected after they were so overpowered last year.

Passing is now, accurately, more error-prone. Don’t expect your players to be dislocating their legs to pull off ridiculously ambitions first time balls anymore. And, finally, penalties and free-kicks have been completely revamped.

The Journey is over

Finally, we come to The Journey.

Or the lack of it.

After players could take Alex Hunter on the ride of a lifetime in the last three editions of the came, the story has now come to a close and there is no ‘The Journey’ game mode this time around.