Kevin Mbaki

FIFA 23 is by far the worst FIFA title in the franchise. I have been playing this game since FIFA 06 and I’ve bought one every single year it came out and nothing is as bad as fifa 23. First and foremost, the most maddening feature in this game is the stand tackling mechanism. It’s trash, putrid, dismal and all other negative adjectives you can think of. Biggest example is when you are in the most perfect position to win the ball back and you press the stand tackle button (I play on classic controls on ps5) so it’s circle for me, the player tries to tackle with the foot that’s away from the ball and to make things worse, it tackles in the opposite directions, meaning, away from the ball! How on earth is that realistic? How on earth did EA Sports not fix that issue?!! It’s sooo annoying. Another thing is that it’s so delayed, you press at the right town but it reacts too late and you commit a foul. This makes me so mad. Another thing that I can’t stand is the switch player algorithm, it’s ALWAYS off! It never switches to the player closest to the ball, and when it finally switches to the right player, it’s too late and the defender won’t catch up to the attacking player and boom goal!! So annoying!!!! I’ve read a lot of reviews here and it seems that I’m not the only one that have experienced horrendous gameplay. It doesn’t flow, you absolute cannot string 3 or more passes without a bad pass and potentially losing the ball. Don’t even get me started on long passes, weak! Attacking players like wingers or strikers don’t make runs or go wide, instead, they come towards you resulting in no options out wide. I could go on and on about how terrible this game is. But I hope EA fixes all these issues in their new EA Sports FC 24 game!

*Spoiler free* Wow wow wow is all I can say! Hands down to Mazin and crew for this almost perfect adaptation of one of the best games I’ve ever played!! Great graphics, cinematography and most of all casting! They could not have picked a better person for Joel than Pedro Pascal. I hope it stays consistent through the entire show as far as quality is concerned the way the first episode was.