Producer: Electronic Arts
Thanks to the Frostbite engine, EA SPORTS FIFA 18 blurs the boundaries between the real and the virtual world, giving life to the players, teams and atmospheres of the most beautiful game in the world. FIFA 18 introduces the greatest innovation to the game system in the history of the series, Real Player animation technology, an innovative system that unlocks a new level of responsiveness and player personality. Now Cristiano Ronaldo and the other champions move exactly like on the real field. Player Control and new Team and Placement Styles offer the tools to create exciting moments to create immersive atmospheres around the world. Follow in the footsteps of Alex Hunter, accompanied by a stellar cast that includes Cristiano Ronaldo and other European football champions. In FIFA Ultimate Team, FUT ICONS, including Ronaldo Nazário and other football legends, are preparing to land in FIFA 18.
GAMEPLAY AND PRESENTATION
The Frostbite engine allows you to further soften the boundary between the real world and the virtual one, paying great attention to the novelties of the realistic action, the new football dimensions and the facets of the characters. Thanks to advanced shading and occlusion techniques and cinematic cutting used to create players and game scenarios, FIFA 18 offers the most authentic and visually impressive football simulation ever.
Player Control:
- Real Player Animation Technology: The revolutionary new animation system applies motion trajectories to each frame to deliver a level of responsiveness and fluidity of gameplay never experienced before in the series. New motion capture techniques and frame-by-frame animation transitions ensure a faithful representation of the game of football. Real Player animation technology allows for greater fidelity in the movements of all players on the pitch, raising the bar of realism and taking it to a new level.
- Player Personality: Six new character archetypes and new player mapping technology help differentiate players on the pitch and give them a distinct identity. For the first time ever, movement, size and attributes influence player movements, allowing you to experience the habits of champions. In FIFA 18 you can instantly recognize Ronaldo's signature sprint, Sterling's unique direction changes and Robben's signature arm movement.
- Improved Dribbling: In FIFA 18, the strongest players can make sudden changes of direction when aiming for defenders. New dribbling mechanics allow you to tackle 1vs1 duels with greater creativity. Take advantage of finer touches and tighter changes of direction to launch into the attack with unprecedented dynamism.
- Responsive: Creative ball skills, contextual touches, and a reworking of dribbling mechanics give new attacking options in tight spaces. Change direction with ease and hear how your player responds when you avoid the tackle of a defender.
- Explosive: Realistic and dynamic speed-based animations let you go faster from controlled touches to open field sprints.
Team styles and placement:
- New Player Positioning: Thanks to greater freedom of movement, your teammates will be able to read the game better and react accordingly, sprinting forward to offer passing options or occupying spaces to provide support on offense. The new player positioning offers you more possibilities to take advantage of the field in width and the insertions with the right times.
- Team Styles: The most famous tactics take to the field in FIFA 18 thanks to a series of realistic play styles adopted by different teams. Now it will be possible to immediately recognize the tiki-taka of some of the best European teams or the high pressure adopted by the Premier League formations. This involves new approaches in defense and attack every time you choose to play with a new team or against a new opponent.
- Dynamic Quick Substitutions: New contextual substitutions make it easy to make changes without interrupting the game. Whether you've just wasted a chance or conceded a goal, you can immediately decide to make a substitution without accessing the menu.
Engaging atmospheres
- Regional atmospheres: With realistic sun position, compelling weather management, signature pitchside encounters, real overlay graphics for La Liga and MLS, debris on the pitch, club and stadium specific banners, Adaptable commentary and variable pitch quality, FIFA 18 will bring the most immersive football experience ever to life.
- Dynamic Audience in High Definition: New audience reactions and more specific choirs will make you feel all the warmth of your fans. Hear the royal choirs build in intensity when you attack, the outbursts of joy after a goal, and interact with the crowd during the cheers.
Exciting moments:
- Spectacular Goals: New movements and new animations in the finalization phase allow for smoother shots and headers, increasing the potential number of spectacular goals. The personality of the players means that the best players make a difference in the decisive moments, scoring more often in the challenges that matter.
- New Cross Controls: New Cross Controls allow you to put the ball into the box in different ways to create dynamic scoring actions. Tense, arching and backward crosses offer more alternatives to serve the desired player more accurately when attacking.
TRAVEL MODE: HUNTER'S RETURN
Embark on a journey around the world with Alex Hunter and a star-studded cast of characters, including Ronaldo and many other European champions. After an exciting first season in the Premier League, Hunter has attracted the attention of major clubs around the world and is ready to evaluate new proposals that can help him grow. A rosy future awaits him, as a protagonist ... but in football, surprises are always around the corner.
Travel the World: From holidays in Brazil to a summer tour in Los Angeles, Alex Hunter will go through different football scenarios on a trip around the world.
New Objectives: The chapter structure, with short-term objectives, provides Alex Hunter with new stimuli as he faces the second season of his promising career.
A stellar cast: Cristiano Ronaldo tops the list of champions and new faces enriching a stellar cast worthy of the sequel to a great success.
Crucial Decisions: You will be called upon to make important and difficult decisions that will have long-term consequences, changing the course of history. Experience The Journey however you like, making choices that will affect Alex Hunter's career and his relationships with other characters on and off the pitch.
Your Alex Hunter: Customize Alex Hunter's look by choosing her hairstyle, tattoos and clothes from a variety of options. You can even choose Alex's favorite foot based on your play style.
Local Multiplayer: Play The Journey with your friends in Local Multiplayer.
New Playable Characters: You will now have the ability to tackle separate short stories with new playable characters that Alex will encounter throughout The Journey mode.
FIFA ULTIMATE TEAM
FIFA ULTIMATE TEAM ICONS: The best players of all time will soon be available in FIFA 18. Play with some of football's greatest legends, including Ronaldo Nazário.
PEGI: 03