FIFA is dead; keep on FIFA 23 Coins living FIFA. EA's football simulation juggernaut is back for one final chance to shine after a bitter public split with its licensor, calling itself "The World's Games" ahead of a painful name change to EA Sports FC and will launch in the year following.
However, the tagline goes beyond its sweet humour as, to all intents and purpose, FIFA 23 certainly feels exactly like the game that we've been playing for the last several years, with its consistent game play from end to end and the familiar frustrations.
At the close of an era FIFA 23 marks another year of cautious repression from EA and its partners, as numerous strategic and aesthetic changes are incorporated into the game's solid blueprint for gameplay. However, it's also a game that feels both propped up and weighed down by its Ragnarok status, reluctantly taking down a ruby-red curtain as the football genre becomes a sea of chaos.
Theatrical aspects to gameplay, such as the brutal Power Shots will ensure the FIFA name is out with a bang and not just a whine. When you hold the bumpers, pressing shoot transforms your striker into an enraged raider with an interruptible attack, the camera's focus shifting while they play the ball with bootstrap shockwaves that roar through the PS5's control speaker. If you've chosen the wrong angle wrong, FIFA 23's newly improved goalkeepers can be skilled enough to stop it using their individual fingers which have saved my bacon on several occasions.
Take it seriously, however If the forward has enough room, it's likely to end up at the net's back no matter how far you are. The meta-shaking shot hints at the legendary days of Francesco Totti hit-and-hope long shots used in the early years of FIFA however don't be worried as online multiplayer continues to cheapest FUT 23 Coins be plagued with speedy wingers passing the ball across the net on the break. Why try and have fun isn't it?