Reviewing FIFA 16 for PC is a tricky proposition. Sure, EA Canada has yet again laid out an all encompassing soccer sm?rg?sbord that boasts immaculate presentation and dizzying production values. Yet it's hard to fight off the feeling this season's effort feels more like a glorified DLC pack, rather than the full priced annual update you'd hope for. No Touch Dribbling. Dynamic Crossing. Clinical Finishing. Confidence In Defending. Interception Intelligence. Good lord does EA love a capitalised buzz phrase.
Unfortunately, most of this year's supposedly new on-pitch features translate into diddly squat when you're looking for tangible, easily felt improvements over FIFA 15. One of the new features that really stand out is that - for the first time - you can now play as teams from the Women’s National League. There are twelve teams you can choose from and you can compete online in tournaments and friendly matches or play offline tournaments and Match Day.
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Another new mode is the “FUT (FIFA Ultimate Team) Draft.” This is really fun and exciting because you get five random players and you must place them in the best position that will help your team win. You can play up to four matches and, if you win, you will get rewards that you can use to help out your FIFA Ultimate Team. Here's a trick to take the challenge against Team of the Week: Start playing with the highest level of difficulty, which is the "Ultimate".
If you can not overcome, then go down (try Legendary), if you still can not with them, go for professional and so on. This will allow you to earn coins to complete the Challenge Week team. There you go from the highest to the lowest. EA Sports Czech FC increases reward you can get coins FUT will give additional currencies for their upcoming matches. After buying Increases FUT Coin reward for spending the FC, it is automatically added to their reward coins after a certain number of fixtures - the number of parties depends on the impulse buy item.
It's the delicate nature of this balance that encourages players to keep on buying and opening new packs, which is the core appeal of FIFA 16: Ultimate Team. It's a set up that almost overshadows the actual act of playing a game of football itself, which is perhaps wise. FIFA 16 is by no means a terrible game to play, but by the same token, it's fair to say that things aren't really moving on. While FIFA on console manages to make a steady, if unspectacular, progression on console with each release, on mobile the on pitch action feels much the same as it did four, five or even six years ago.
When you eventually set your team, you will participate in a tournament (online or offline) until you are eliminated. The reward at the end will be determined by the chosen difficulty level (if playing offline) and the number of victories. You can win multiple packages or even players with FUT Draft, but to participate you will have to pay as well. All players have a token to try out FUT Draft, but from there on in you will need to buy these tokens, each costing 15,000 gold coins or the equivalent of a couple of quid. Prices aside, it seemed to us like a nice introduction to the FUT universe, especially for players who accumulate many gold coins and want to spend them on something different.
I enjoyed FIFA 16 Ultimate Team. It lives up to its name with its emphasis on squad building, and it provides a smooth player experience that anyone can find accessible and enjoy. The action buttons are a bit too large, but FIFA 16 is by far the best mobile football experience around. It is a hard one to beat.
