The
coins fifa demo came out yesterday, and while I'm still getting to grips with it, I'm having a fun time.
It's
early days, but my initial impressions of FIFA 19 based on the demo are
that it feels zippier, the new timed shooting mechanic has made scoring
goals more rewarding, and the ball feels less laser-guided than in
previous versions.
What I'd like to do now though is point to a
few new features FIFA 19 has that I didn't know about - certainly some I
wasn't expecting - as well as highlight some I did know about but
reckon may fly under the radar. It turns out FIFA 19 has quite a few
cool new features that combine to give the game a better quality of life
feel, and they're well worth trying out.
First up, you can now
press one button (circle on PlayStation 4) to have your goalscorer
perform a random celebration. This is a fantastic addition for a number
of reasons, chief among them it should mix things up when you're playing
online. I don't know about you, but I'm sick of seeing the same troll
celebration whenever I concede a goal playing FIFA online. Hopefully the
draw of being able to trigger a random celebration will be too hard to
resist for most.
Speaking of celebrations, another cool new feature
is you're able to skip the celebration and go straight to kick off after
scoring a goal. To do this you press both bumpers and triggers (L1 + L2
+ R1 + R2 on PS4) at the same time. The game goes to kick off
instantaneously, which is fantastic if you're in a rush or you just
don't fancy doing a celebration. Nice!
Another nice addition for
FIFA 19 is the game now has an indicator that tells you which player
you'll switch to if you press the switch player button. This appears
above the player's head. It's a feature nicked from PES, but a welcome
one all the same. (You can turn this off in settings, by the way.)
There
are loads of new animations in FIFA 19, and it'll be a while before I
see them all. But already I've noticed players reach for balls a lot
more - for balls they would not have got to in FIFA 18. The new active
touch system lets you flick the ball as you receive it, and there are
some nice new animations for that, too.
One video doing the
rounds in the FIFA community shows a player getting smacked in the face
by a shot before being blasted in the balls by another shot. The unlucky
victim has animations for each hit. FIFA 18 had an animation for being
hit in the balls by the ball, but I don't remember seeing one this
exaggerated. And I don't remember seeing an animation for being blasted
in the face before, either.
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