Producer: Electronic Arts
Thanks to the Frostbite engine, EA SPORTS FIFA 18 blurs the lines between the real and virtual worlds, bringing to life the players, teams and atmospheres of the most beautiful game in the world. FIFA 18 introduces the biggest 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 pitch. Player Control and new Team and Placement Styles give you the tools to create exciting moments to create immersive atmospheres around the world. Follow the exploits 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 blur the boundary between the real and virtual world, paying great attention to the novelties of realistic action, the new football dimensions and the facets of the characters. With advanced shading, occlusion and cinematic techniques 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 every frame to deliver a level of responsiveness and gameplay fluidity 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 you to offer 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 immediately recognize Ronaldo's signature sprint, Sterling's unique changes of direction and Robben's signature arm movement.
- Improved Dribbling: In FIFA 18, stronger players can make sudden changes of direction when targeting defenders. The new dribbling mechanics allow you to approach 1v1 duels with greater creativity. Take advantage of more precise touches and tighter changes of direction, to launch into attack with a dynamism never seen before.
- Responsive: Creative ball skills, contextual touches and a reworked dribbling mechanic provide new attacking options in tight spaces. Change direction with ease and feel how your player responds when you avoid a defender's tackle.
- Explosive: Realistic, dynamic speed-based animations let you transition more quickly from controlled touches to open-field sprints.
Team Styles and Placement:
- New Player Positioning: With 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 attacking support. The new positioning of the players offers you more possibilities to exploit the width of the pitch and the insertions at the right times.
- Team Styles: The most famous tactics take to the field in FIFA 18 thanks to a series of realistic playing 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 pressing adopted by Premier League teams. This means new approaches to defense and attack every time you choose to play with a new team or against a new opponent.
- Dynamic Quick Substitutions: New contextual substitutions allow you to easily make substitutions without interrupting the game. Whether you've just missed an opportunity 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 matches, real overlay graphics for La Liga and MLS, debris on the pitch, club and stadium specific banners, With adaptable commentary and variable pitch quality, FIFA 18 will deliver the most immersive football experience ever.
- Dynamic audience in high definition: the new audience reactions and the increased number of specific chants will make you feel all the warmth of your fans. Hear the royal chants increase in intensity when you attack, the explosions of joy after a goal and interact with the crowd during the celebrations.
Exciting moments:
- Spectacular goals: new movements and animations during the finishing phase allow for smoother shots and headers, increasing the potential number of spectacular goals. The personality of the players means that the strongest players make the difference in decisive moments, scoring more often in the challenges that count.
- New Crossing Controls: New crossing controls allow you to put the ball into the box in different ways to create dynamic scoring moves. Tense, arched and backward crosses offer more options to more accurately serve the desired player when attacking.
THE JOURNEY 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 travel through different football scenarios on a trip around the world.
New Goals: The chapter structure, with short-term goals, provides Alex Hunter with new stimuli as he embarks on the second season of his promising career.
A stellar cast: Cristiano Ronaldo tops the list of champions and new faces who enrich a stellar cast worthy of the sequel to a great success.
Shaping 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 mode however you want, making choices that will impact 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 hairstyles, tattoos and clothing from a variety of options. You can even choose Alex's favorite foot based on your playing style.
Local multiplayer: play The Journey with your friends thanks to the local multiplayer mode.
New Playable Characters: You will now have the chance to play out separate short stories with new playable characters that Alex meets throughout The Journey mode.
FIFA ULTIMATE TEAM
FIFA ULTIMATE TEAM ICONS: The best players ever will soon be available in FIFA 18. Play with some of football's greatest legends, including Ronaldo Nazário.
PEGI: 03