Although it's the last game of a period, FIFA 23 Coins marks another year of careful attrition from EA and EA, as a variety of design and tactical tweaks complement its solid blueprint for gameplay. It's also a title that is both bolstered and sucked up by its Ragnarok status, grudgingly pulling down a ruby-red final curtain as the football game genre transforms into a maelstrom chaos.
Theatrical enhancements to gameplay, like the intense Power Shots ensure the FIFA name goes out with a bang rather than an eerie whimper. When you hold the bumpers, pressing shoot, your striker transforms into an enraged raider with an attack that is interruptible with the camera pulling focus on the ball as they leather it and sends shockwaves from bootstraps blasting through the PS5's controller speaker. If you've got the incorrect angle, FIFA 23's newly improved goalkeepers who are acrobatic might be able to stop it using their individual simulated fingers which have saved my bacon on a couple of occasions.
Take it seriously, however when the forward has enough space the shot is likely to be in the back of the net, regardless of how far you are. The meta-shaking shot is a hint of the glorious days of Francesco Totti hit-and-hope long shots seen in early 2010s FIFA But don't fret that online multiplayer is plagued with speedy wingers passing the ball across the net on breaks. So why not have a blast and be a little fun you ask?
Although it's not able to escape the game's perennial issue of being a bit dependent on speedy players in the end, FIFA 23 does reward good execution across the board. My fingers hurt after pulling the triggers to jockey dangerous counter-attacks. Additionally, the intensity of a pass has to be tweaked, which can be difficult to master, but rewarding when you place an ideal through ball.
Unscrupulous tackles can leave you wide open, as holding down the buttons that accompany them for too long could cause a potentially dangerous crushing commitment that at times pays off - but, typically, it leads to penalties that are a biting blow. That makes tackling with the last man back into an extremely risky, but thrilling endeavor.
These changes result in FIFA 23 a more sluggish game than FIFA 22 but the result is that games are always memorable. There's plenty of action during each half, typically many goals per game in the single-player as well as online modes, and very few 0-0 draws. With the drama and spectacles every goal worth its weight will produce a victory lap slow-motion replays with overlays of statistics, guaranteeing that hard drives and FIFA 23 Coins for sale feeds the world over will be clogged with viral-friendly goal clips by year's end.
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