Ondrej Kindl

This review is from someone who has over 100 hours in UT. I’ll start with good things: Evo - Not everyone will agree , but this year there is really a lot of evolutions and quite useful. Some criteria are extremely high, but still I’ll give it a W. Squad battles - Here is meant reducing it from 32 to 12 games was good idea. Rewards compared to Rival/Champs are laughable though. I have nothing more good to say so I’ll move to neutral: Rival - Good thing here was reducing the flags in higher divisions , therefore you won’t end up in division you don’t belong. Rewards for those divisions are too high as mentioned. Weekly 35 points is too high too. I could understand that in higher divisions as these players play it more often, but in lower divisions it should stay at 7 wins. Rush - It has potential , the problem here are players who doesn’t play and are just waste of teammates. The system of rewarding players here is wrong. It doesn’t matter whether you play good and get rating 10 or doesn’t play at all. Both get the same amount of points. It should be changed and points get based on team achievement and player as well. Champions - I don’t have much to say here. You have less games in qualification which makes it harder to qualify, but otherwise it’s the same as every year. Rewards are too high in my opinion. Negative ones: Players - I understand that they want to make profit, but new promo every week is just stupid at this point. The chance you get some unless you spend there thousands is also super low. Gameplay - This one is not only for UT. I have to say it’s probably the worst I’ve played. Game is slow, boring and 80% of goals you conceded are the same and that’s because you have somehow big space between defenders/midfielders. Impossible rebounds as in last couple of years are norm. The fact you can’t tackle no matter what you do, then get tackled by someone whose defending is as low as 50 is embarrassing. Difficulty - Here I am super disappointed. I like a good challenge, but that’s not what happening in this game. Whether you play world class or legendary the gameplay actually doesn’t change at all. The things that changes is number of mistakes and somehow stats. You can have someone with speed 97 and you’ll get outrun by some done with speed 70. You can’t score with player who has shooting 90 and finnese shot, but then the player with 35 shooting on the other side will score a screamer from 5 yards outside of the box. Tactics - Interesting idea, terrible realisation. You can’t properly set how you want the player to play even with all the fancy setting they tried to sell to us. But the worst is team tactic. Because there is none. You can set whether you want to play counter, short passing or balanced. And then defending approach (low to high). That’s embarrassing. Summary: I can’t see myself play this game in 2025 as it will most likely get boring and will just disgust me even more. There is none better football game unfortunately and that’s why EA can do the bare minimum and we will buy it anyway. If you play only carer mode don’t waste your money here.