Ultimate Team - FIFA's playable fantasy football mode, and the virtual version of FIFA 23 Coins the European Super League - now allows you to create an elite team thanks to a more flexible approach to the way that its team chemistry system works. Players who are from the same league or nation no longer have to be close to each other in your chosen formation for you to increase your chemistry score also, and they're not forced to lose their football skills simply because they don't have anything in common with their teammates.

Some may appreciate the additional freedom this gives when shopping in the transfer market but it feels a bit like a major part of what made forming a squad interesting and challenging is gone. In any case, FUT is still largely it's a pay-to-win game that shows the worst aspects today's football. Oh, and the interface is about as welcoming as the ambiance of a Rangers bar to a person sporting a Celtic scarf.

Career mode has had an overhaul of the visuals to make it more in line with the game's other modes but it's played like before. When you take control of the player, there are RPG-style points that you can earn depending on how you behave on and off the pitch Additionally, you have the option to take on the form of coaches and players from the real world rather than creating your own from scratch.

It's not as simple as career mode's ongoing efforts to make you play less football. EA has already introduced many training elements which felt like administration however, now you are able to play highlights of games instead of all 90 minutes. When it comes to football it's somewhat confusing.

FIFA may not be the best game to show off the capabilities of your console. However, there are some neat features which help enhance that sensation of realism a little bit more whether it's the way the nets of FUT 23 buy Coins the goal ripple, or how sliding attacks can lead to the pitch to break up over the time for 90 minutes.