FIFA 23 Impressions
 

The FIFA 23 trial is available today for EA Play subscribers allowing fans to play the...

Written By: Steve Noah

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Re: FIFA 23 Trial Available Now
 

My impressions after a couple of hours. Forgive me for listing anything that already existed in last year's next gen version since I play on PC so didn't have the next gen engine last year:

+ I love the new free/corner kick system. Much more realistic than the old post-kick stick manipulation system.

= That said, I'm not sure about the new penalty kick system because I'm not sure exactly how it works, because they didn't include any sort of in-game tutorial, unlike most other things.

+ Looks really good, but...

- Poor optimization on PC.

+ Gameplay is so much better on the next gen engine. I'm kind of glad I didn't know what I was missing last year.

+ There's a referee strictness setting! I'm seeing fouls!

-? Turning the gameplay to slow seems to still have the defender strafing problem, but I'm putting a question mark because I'm not 100% sure.

+ Lots of new training scenarios, and some of them are pretty fun.

+ Glad we can finally play as some real-life managers.

- Still max 7 bench players. How has this still not been changed?

+ A lot of good animations, and despite them focusing on it very little in the run-up to release, a lot of them make defending better. I've already pulled off some really nice tackles that don't seem to have been possible before.

+ Some nice new presentations.

+ Heading, particularly on defence, feels a lot better this year.

+ No more separate game launcher that I had to re-disable via a command line after every patch in previous years.

So far I'm impressed, but I'm approaching it cautiously because I've been fooled in the early days before.

Re: FIFA 23 Trial Available Today For EA Play Subscribers
 

On the next gen beta I had to play on normal speed, every time I played on slow it caused issues with defensive players. Although normal didn’t seem that fast like previous versions.

Also this was Xbox but same engine as pc this year.


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For next gen folks, you can finally edit how strict refs can be.

For my cpu vs cpu watchers, you can finally watch matches at least in tournament modes

Re: FIFA 23 Trial Available Today For EA Play Subscribers
 

I'm having a surprisingly good time on the PC Trial.

The graphics are pretty nice. Not a realistic amount of fouls, but they happen enough to have an impact on the game even with default settings.

Re: FIFA 23 Trial Available Today For EA Play Subscribers
 

One thing a bug
Custom settings on broadcast came do nothing they do not zoom or do angle even at 20 or zero

Two there are still old running animations from last gen

Three snow games are not snowy but rather snowing
Player DO slide very realistically in it which is nice

Everything else up for debate my ps5 controller had to charge and playing that close you can’t really gauge it

So hopefully with more time I can get my sliders out

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Got in no problem the first time. After that my series x wouldn't get into the trial. Said there were authentication issues. Saw xbox tweet something about it but hopefully it gets fixed soon.

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This is so refreshing.

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I'm glad I opted to play in a pre-season cup because I spent those matches shedding habits developed over the last couple of years defensively, like switching constantly to get guys into position. Now it feels more like PES (RIP) where I can just play on-ball defence and trust that the other guys will be in the right positions.