Review
After recovering the football simulator’s throne with the last two versions, Electronic Arts said goodbye to the graphic generation with one of the best and most innovative FIFAs ever seen. Fifa 14 is not just an update from the previous title, it is a big amount of features and improvements that were added to the title to offer the FIFA experience and welcome the next-gen consoles like PS4 or Xbox One with the best game. So select your favourite team and let's kick-off!
If you are a FIFA's Franchise fan, you will notice that Fifa 14 has more changes than the 2008 version, when EA Sports changed all the attacker and defender system. Thanks to the EA Sports Ignite engine, Fifa 14 includes more than thousand new animations, skills and behaviours than will be reflected on game. Precision will be our best ally and enemy. The ball’s physic will be more realistic and we’ll use its unpredictability as we want, stepping over it, turning or feinting with real speed and agility. The artificial intelligence was improved too and now our teammates will be more intelligent and dynamic to slip one’s marker and to maintain the midfield’s transition.
The reserved license offered is almost perfect. In addition to the top European leagues (Spanish Liga, German, Italian, French and English Premiere League), Fifa 14 has the second league of those countries and the Netherlands, Portugal, Norway, Ireland, Scotland, Russia, Sweden, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium and Denmark first competitions. But this year EA Sports goes further and gives us the chance to play with all-new licensed tournaments as the Concacaf or the Argentina, Chile and Colombia's leagues and the great Brazilian footballers’ style. The stadiums will be faithfully recreated and the new interactive animations will let us recognize familiar faces as Gareth Bale, Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, with their particular and realistic behavior, with their superstars dynamic reactions and instincts wherever they are playing a Bundesliga or Premier match. And they are totally alike in real-world dribbling and sprinting in the midfield, absolutely human-like. The rosters are real-world, as the stadiums or the footballers.
Gameplay
Fifa 14 continues offering a great football experience in this version. The euro UEFA Super Leage and the Champion League will continue being the top cups on game, but we will have the chance to participate on few international championships and tournaments. The best change on Fifa 14 is the realism, more tricks and features have been added. EA Sports wants to show everyone that the most famous football simulator is still alive and it still has exciting and important space to improve and upgrade.
Even though the single player game will waste most of our hour playing, the online game will give us most of the satisfactions. Thanks to the new gameplay style, victory will require more work from us and to be on the top of the rankings will require real pro manager skills. The network connection will download the real league information with the latest news and results to make our FIFA community experience even more realistic. Feel free to enjoy online championships against other opponents or to compete on a 2-2 cooperative tournament with friends.
Another new game option is the Global scouting network where we’ll have the chance to expand the FIFA experience and search for our future soccer stars. Trainning and taking care of our young players we will have better chances to maintain the club spirit and philosophy like FC. Barcelona in real life. The new friendly interface will help us on that task in a better way than the FIFA 13 interface. EA Sports has improved all the menus and has made them friendlier to users with more tips and information.
Fifa 14 Full Version Features
Below you can find Fifa 14 main features:
- Players interaction has been improved during the matches
- Play online tournaments with your friends
- Enhanced physics and realist experiences that allows a new fluid dribbling and the ability of shield the ball
- Better AI for not controlled football players and defences
- New league tournaments and teams totally licensed
- The ball movements are more realistic and free
- Almost every player faces and behaviors. Shoot the kick-off with the tipical Cristiano Ronaldo steps back
- New game modes, as the Global Scouting
If you want to know more information about Fifa 14 before the download, you can visit thedeveloper's website
System requirements
Here you can find the PC system requirements to download and install this game:
- Operating System: Windows XP or higher
- Processor: 1.6 GHz
- Memory: 1GB RAM
- HDD: 8GB of free space
- Graphic card: AMD Radeon 9550 / Nvidia GeForce 8400 Series; compatible with Direct X9
Conclusion
Fifa 14 is the first next-generation football simulator and probably the best of its genre. The new gameplay and the new game modes bring us the authentic football fantasy to our homes. The developer uses the new EA physics engine to recreate the sprints, collisions and tackles very accurately and with realism. The new online game modes let us compete on single games and tournaments with friends, expanding the FIFA experience to a new level.
PROS
- EA takes a step forward to improve the saga
- The realism is almost perfect in Fifa 14
- The physics engine was improved so well
- New gameplay, adapted for newbies
- All the most important cups, leagues and teams rights are licenced and implemented
CONS
- The AI is still not realist. On high difficulty, sometimes it is very frustrating to defeat the machine
- Fifa 14 has lost the speed and fluidity from previous versions
