will appear in your starting FUT squad with hilarious regularity. In 2018 World Cup, this mode has been stripped bare and has had any difficulty in acquiring a dream-team removed. The acquisition system forces players to play a million games online against teams made of ‘rare’ cards until the player snaps and buys 50 Gold Packs. It’s Not Even GreedyįIFA Ultimate Team is EA’s cash cow. It seems too aware that it costs nothing and that it will be de-patched and forgotten about as soon as the Moscow final ends 1-0. Other EA World Cup titles had modes to make you play the game once the tournament was over 2018 World Cup Russia doesn’t even try. Is there no happy medium to be found? We are either punked for Messi in ‘nilla FUT 18 or he is quantitatively-eased into worthlessness in World Cup FUT There was the facility to swap out players and change the squads. 2018 World Cup Russia captures the superficialities of the tournament very well but it has so little substance…Ģ0 years ago, on finishing World Cup ’98 we were given a series of classic finals – complete with monochrome TV images and care-free 2-3-5 formations. That is how many it takes to win a tournament so that is fair enough, right?Īll other World Cup titles attempted to stretch it out a little, there is nothing new over F IFA 18 here beyond the stadia and kits – even the tournament itself can be made in vanilla FIFA 18. You can essentially ‘finish’ the DLC in seven games provided you have no interest in the sub-par WC FUT. ![]() Basic stuff that can’t cost much once you own the license. Scenarios were phenomenal, the game came with videos, slideshows and simple text explaining a team’s history at the tournament, how they qualified etc. ![]() It would be unfair to line WC18 up against the 2014 entry since this effort is free but there were so many little touches in the Brazilian tournament title that made you want to play it. The World Cup itself and a stripped-down FIFA Ultimate Team is all you get. To their credit, the DLC coats FIFA 18 in a goosebump-hailing World Cup livery that gets me excited for the Soviet Soccer Sojourn… only to crush my spirit when I realise how little else is here. Innit, bruv?Ģ018 World Cup Russia is the exact same experience as FIFA 18 but with a different skin, some stadia and official up-to-date kits. What was supposed to be a huge refinement of the engine with tons of extra stuff to bring the best out of it was more of an incremental upgrade with a giant ‘The Journey’ patch. 35-yard piledrivers from a standstill, random stick-waggling still being effective and hands-off defending eventually ruined FIFA 18 for me – I like being rewarded for skill, not for simply trying.įIFA 18 was also the second Frostbite FIFA. ![]() Whatever you choose to call it, RN-Jesus will call in because the match you are playing ‘isn’t exciting enough’. To their credit, the DLC coats FIFA 18 in a goosebump-hailing World Cup livery that gets me excited for the Soviet Soccer Sojourn…ĭestiny. ![]() However, the series’ long-standing complaints still rear their heads after an extended time with the game. It impressed with its improved visuals, engaged crowds and break from the lock-step running of old. Redeeming features include added crowd detail and some national team-specific celebrations Free DLC is Free (and you can certainly tell)Į reviewed FIFA 18back in the day. At least Russia has a national team worth talking about and the games won’t be a health hazard to the players and the spectators. FIFA ™ (the organisation, not the game) are massively corrupt so if Russia didn’t buy the chance to host, we probably faced worse. Of all the shady stuff done in the name of Comrade Putin, bringing the World Cup to Russia is one of the least terrible ones. This games writer understands that the DLC is free but was it not designed to increase FIFA 18 sales and add another level of depth to FIFA Ultimate Team? FIFA 18plays host to the first free DLC version of a World Cup license – 2018 World Cup Russia doesn’t dazzle on its debút.
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