FIFA 16 is an association football simulation video game published by EA Sports for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4,Xbox 360, Xbox One, Android and iOS.
The game is the first in the FIFA series to include female players. It is also the first in which the players on the covers were chosen by popular vote, including the first women to appear on the cover.
The game received generally positive reviews on its release in September 2015, with writers praising its realism.
Gameplay
FIFA 16 includes female footballers, with 12 women's national teams: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, France, Germany,Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. At the time of initial release, three modes are available for the women's teams - offline friendlies (Match Day), online friendlies and a tournament mode based on the FIFA Women's World Cup.
The game contains 78 stadiums, including 50 real-world venues.[3]Fratton Park, home of Portsmouth, was added to in honour of Portsmouth fan Simon Humber, creative director of the FIFA series, who died of cancer in 2015.[4]
A new Training Mode was also added to Career Mode allowing the player to develop footballers in the team of which they are managing without actually playing them.[5] These are in the form of skill games, a feature added to the series previously. It allows the player to set a specific focus on which the footballer should develop on meaning that he will grow specifically according to the chosen focus attribute. Doing this also increases the transfer value of the player.[6]
New friendly enhancements were added to the mode with players now able to pick a friendly tournament before a season starts. Winning these friendly tournaments gives the player a reward in the form of a transfer budget boost. Also, unlimited substitutions are permitted when playing these friendly games. Other features include two-year loans, many realistic transfer budget enhancements and improved player values.[7]
New features that are exclusive to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC versions of the game will involve a licensed presentation package for the Bundesliga, new weather and kick-off time variations, and the use of vanishing spray during certain matches.[8]
Development and release
In order to get female player motions correct, the game's designers used motion capture of American forwards Alex Morgan and Sydney Leroux, American midfielder Megan Rapinoe and Australian defenderSteph Catley.[9]
FIFA 16 was announced on May 28, 2015.[10] The announcement of the inclusion of woman players was met with positive critical response from IGN.[11] EA Sports' official trailer revealing the women's football feature was released on May 28 and included live and in-game footage of such players as Morgan, Leroux, Rapinoe, Abby Wambach, Hope Solo, Spain's Verónica Boquete (who had previously petitioned EA Sports through Change.org to include female players[12]), England's Eniola Aluko and Steph Houghton, Germany's Célia Šašić, Canada's Christine Sinclair and Sweden'sKosovare Asllani.[13]
The game was released in September 2015 worldwide for PC,PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Android and IOS.[14]A representative from publisher Electronic Arts confirmed that neither a PlayStation Vita version nor a Nintendo 3DS version of the game is in development, making FIFA 16 the first edition in the series since 2000 to not to be released on Nintendo platforms.[15][16]
In September 2015, due to a warning by the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), 13 women's players that are currently attending or "likely to attend" an NCAA-sanctioned school, will be removed from FIFA 16. The NCAA argued that the inclusion of these particular players would result in their forfeiture of eligibility to participate in NCAA-sanctioned programs, as NCAA rules strictly restrict monetary compensation to individual student-athletes. Whilst complying with the request, EA argued that they had licensed their likenesses through national governing bodies under "standard protocol", and that "none of these NCAA student-athletes or potential student athletes were to be individually compensated by EA Sports for their inclusion in the game."[17]
Cover athletes
FIFA 16 is the first game in the series to allow fans the opportunity to put their favourite player alongside Lionel Messi on the cover of the game in Australia, Brazil, France, Japan, Latin America, Mexico, Poland and the United Kingdom.[19] Three female players – Catley, Sinclair and Morgan – became the first women to be on aFIFA game cover.[20][21][22]
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FIFA 16's localised covers include the first three women to feature on the cover of a game in the series, including Alex Morgan (pictured) in the United States
Reception
ESPN writer James Tyler gave the game a positive review, commenting on the increased realism of defending and passing tactics. He suggested that the series could be improved with a mode playing as a team owner.[47] The Independent's Andrew Griffin was also pleased with the additions, but theorised that they would not be revolutionary enough to challenge rival title PES 2016.[48] Writing for The Guardian, Ben Wilson noted the difference in tactics needed while playing as women, and concluded that it would be difficult to choose the best game out of the year's FIFA and PESeditions, awarding a maximum five stars.[46]
IGN praised the addition of women’s football and the FUT Draft mode, but compared the game unfavourably with PES 2016, stating that, with "its biggest rival matching its dynamism and beating it for fluidity and responsiveness, EA Sports has work to do if FIFA is to regain its title as king of the digital sport."[42] Metro also compared it unfavourably with PES 2016, stating that it is the "worst FIFA game for over half a decade, and clearly inferior to PES 2016" but is "still not a bad game in itself, with some welcome new features."[45]GameSpot gave it a more positive review, stating that, while it "can be stubborn and stifling," it "feels gloriously new, and having to learn fresh strategies and nuances in a game series like this is an almost-forgotten pleasure."[41]
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