Theatrical, theatrical additions to FIFA 23 Coins gameplay like the intense Power Shots, will ensure that the FIFA name is announced with a bang instead of an eerie whimper. Pressing the bumpers with your fingers and holding them to shoot makes your striker a raid boss by launching an unstoppable attack, the camera's focus shifting as they leather the ball by sending shockwaves of bootstrap blasts through the PS5's controller speaker. If you've gotten the angle wrong, FIFA 23's newly improved acrobatic goalkeepers might be able to stop it using their own simulated fingers that have helped me out on a couple of occasions.

Get it right, though, and if the forwardhas enough space there's a good chance that it'll be in the back of the net, regardless of how far out you are. The meta-shaking shot brings to mind the glory days of Francesco Totti hit-and-hope long shots used in early 2010s FIFA but don't panic because online multiplayer is rid of speedy wingers passing it across the box on breaks. Why try and have fun, eh?

Although it's not able to escape the series' recurring issue of being over-reliant on pacey players completely, FIFA 23 does reward good execution across the board. My fingers hurt when hitting the triggers to throw dangerous counter-attacks. The intensity of a play has to be fine-tuned, which is difficult to master but is rewarding when you place an ideal through ball.

A rash tackle can also leave you exposed by holding the buttons too long can result in an unwise, crushing decision that can pay off however, usually it results in penalties that are a biting blow. This turns tackling with the final man back into an exciting, yet risky challenge.

These modifications are what make FIFA 23 a much more sluggish game in comparison to FIFA 22. However, the tradeoff is that matches have a consistent sense of significance. There's a lot of excitement in every half, often several goals in a match, both the single-player as well as online modes, and very few 0-0 draws. With the drama and spectacles, any goal worth its salt will also lead to a triumph lap slow-motion replay with overlayed statistics making sure that hard drives and feeds across the globe will be jammed with viral goal-related videos by the time the year is over.

Set Pieces are similarly convincing, affording you more control on the curl and strength of your corners and free kicks. It took time, but the free kicks started to grow in me, because they're far more intricate and far superior to the chaotic stick-pulling techniques of earlier times. In the same way, Penalty shootouts are played out as a ferocious rhythm game, and are with the help of the gods.

FIFA 23 also includes an upgrade in visuals, though it's much more iterative, and gradual than the previous year's move up to PS5 or Series X - focusing this time around scuffy grass and bouncy hairdos. It's primarily seen in players' animations onbuy FUT 23 Coinsthe pitch as opposed to actual faces that aren't the same in terms of quality among cover stars regular players, cover stars, and the fandom of the cult.