FIFA 18

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3.1

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 393 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 69 out of 393
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  1. darddivorce
    Nov 14, 2017
    5
    Each year we are facing with the same issue, EA sports releases a new version of FIFA which is partially or completely broken. The game comes out to release with such bugs that it is impossible to play. People pay for the game 50-100$, and receive a product that does not work. People tolerated it for years, but sooner or later it has to end.

    This year a new version of the game has    Each year we are facing with the same issue, EA sports releases a new version of FIFA which is partially or completely broken. The game comes out to release with such bugs that it is impossible to play. People pay for the game 50-100$, and receive a product that does not work. People tolerated it for years, but sooner or later it has to end.

    This year a new version of the game has surpassed all it's predesestors. And a huge part of the community received a completely broken mode Pro Clubs. Critical bugs that not allow to play friendly games between teams and stopped all the international tournaments held in every country of the world. Hundreds of thousands of players spend 2-3 hours of their time to play only one game each evening struggling with the broken mechanics.And these efforts do not always guarantee success. Almost 2 months as EA sports knows about this issue. It released 4 patches to the game, and not one of them did solve this problem. Players tested all possible reason and the occurrence of this error, reported all this information to support, but they do nothing.

    They spend their resources to repair the small problems of the game modes which bring them money for the donation. But it seems they forget that we already paid for the game, and had to get a quality product. We will do our best to make our voice heard and make executives who are responsible for what is happening respect their customers and players. Otherwise they will lose them, as well as reputation.    … Expand
  2. Robotnix
    Oct 6, 2017
    5
    The next installment in a frustrating genre, it's good but not as good as it can be. Graphically it looks great, smooth animations, slick UI, absolutely great. This along with the fully licensed leagues and players make fifa what it is.
    But the sad thing about it all is the fact that they don't make an effort to improve.
    The journey was a fun introduction to the series, but it got    The next installment in a frustrating genre, it's good but not as good as it can be. Graphically it looks great, smooth animations, slick UI, absolutely great. This along with the fully licensed leagues and players make fifa what it is.
    But the sad thing about it all is the fact that they don't make an effort to improve.

    The journey was a fun introduction to the series, but it got boring fast last year. This year it's even worse, I would like to see better writing, but this is a sports game and I don't mind the story being cheesy. However, it doesn't make sense this time around. It's such pandering to the US market it's sickening. In FIFA 17 I started with a small club thinking I would be able to get transferred to any big club in the world, but nope it was completely scripted, so I was stuck at Watford. This time I wouldn't get burned so as an AMC I signed for Manchester United. Real Madrid is a great club, but I don't care for them irl, so it felt awkward being forced to leave United, and I was glad the deal fell through. The game goes on and the scripted event starts being 3-0 down. My difficulty settings were set way too low and I scored 6 times after coming on. But somehow the story acted as if the poor performance was my fault even though we won 6-3 after being behind. Those are things that happen in a scripted story, and I could somewhat live with that. But then the **** starts, the game pretending a first team player of United only has LA Galaxy giving a way out? Then pretending Galaxy are some kind of super squad with overrated players, Van Damme being a monster in defence while he now has a hard time making the squad for a small team in Belgium... It just doesn't make sense. Oh and never mind that after the American adventure I was transfered to Atletico Madrid, the club of my dreams while Real being the club of my dreams 6 months earlier. (Do these devs even understand football) I did like the implementation of the womens game though, but on a whole it's a dud again. And frustrating as the entire game, it could have so much better if wasn't as scripted.

    So on to the game itself, controlling a full team, it feels the same as always, decent enough, but it never feels like a real football game. it's a game of one-two, threaded pass and speed your way to the goal. You have to force yourself to make it exciting. And this has been the case for years. I played PES 2018 a bit and the difference in playing the game is unbelievable. It's a shame PES isn't nearly as polished, has crap commentary, menus, graphics, licenses, ... so it's hard playing that game, but boy do they know how to make the gameplay fun and not nearly as grindy as fifa. This has been so frustrating for years, give me the gameplay of pes in the fifa polish and we would have the perfect football game. Fifa has copied so many controls of pes, but still unable to copy the core game, and it's a shame. And we're talking about 10+ years of the same complaints.

    There's one major complaint I have with the fifa polish, the end of the season is still infuriating. During your championship games, there's still way too little indications to know if you're going to be crowned champions or not. It can't be that hard to implement more tension in those last couple of games. Now you have to wait to the final whistle and hope the commentary and the cutscene start. Also make sure that the last games of the season are played at the same time. Last game of the season I won and was 2 points ahead of Real, but somehow real had still a game to play after that. I got an email to inform me of winning the championship... This isn't right.

    So all in all it's a decent game, but if there's one series that could benefit from taking a couple of years off, build the core gameplay from the ground up, it's fifa. EA Sports, you have a great example in PES on how the game can flow, so please use it for a change. Unfortunately reality tells me this isn't going to happen with a moneycow like this, but I'm done giving out high scores for minimal development. Descent game, not worth the money if you bought the previous 4 versions.    … Expand
  3. Jahnav007
    Oct 6, 2017
    7
    the best part of this year's FIFA is the Journey 2 with new characters n new script ..apart from that the gameplays n other features including the game engine is same as FIFA 17
  4. Giero
    Jan 4, 2023
    5
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  5. Cz3rw0ny
    Feb 9, 2021
    5
    Average FIFA game, which doesn't mean its not fun to play with friends. Just the changes are minimal.
  6. jwk_03official
    Feb 11, 2021
    6
    The game plays fine and career mode has a few new features. Unfortunately the game crashes sometimes and hangs up.
  7. B9K
    Aug 26, 2022
    7
    Good game. Very nice gameplay, and the best thing- World Cup DLC. Good memories.
  8. KIndlyKritic
    Aug 26, 2022
    6
    FIFA 18 is the first FIFA game I played. It's pretty good. I played it 5 years after it came out.

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Metascore
81

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 2, 2018
    80
    FIFA did not go on the revolution path of this year, it took a perfectly thoughtful evolution. Thanks to a few small innovations game is funnier, and no one can curse it for only pulling the money out of your pocket. [Issue#280]
  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Nov 7, 2017
    80
    EA Canada gave their all to story mode. Even though there’s far less leeway for story writers in FIFA than in, say, an FPS game, they’ve managed to weave a compelling story that puts Battlefield to shame. [Issue#224, p.63]
  3. GameStar
    Oct 8, 2017
    89
    On the pitch, it's a real improvement of the usual strong FIFA package. Off the pitch, however, the innovations are missing.
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