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  • Summary: Enjoy more control over the Decisive Moments that determine the outcome of every match in FIFA 20. Pick your target and time it right from the spot. Add curl, dip, or knuckle to free kicks. A new aiming mechanic gives you more creativity from dead balls. Move with more agility. Lure theEnjoy more control over the Decisive Moments that determine the outcome of every match in FIFA 20. Pick your target and time it right from the spot. Add curl, dip, or knuckle to free kicks. A new aiming mechanic gives you more creativity from dead balls. Move with more agility. Lure the defender in. Beat them with speed or skill. New strafe dribbling adds new dimensions for attacking play in FIFA 20. Take back possession with Active Touch Tackling and new animations that reward you for well-timed defensive play. More clinical finishing when one-on-one. More risk with volleys and long shots. Overhauled shooting creates more realism in front of goal in FIFA 20. [Electronic Arts] Expand

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FIFA 20 - Gameplay Reveal Trailer | EA Play 2019
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  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Sep 19, 2019
    78
    Volta brings new life into the series, but on the whole FIFA 20 is an adequate but underwhelming entry into the series.
  2. FIFA 20 is bringing nothing new except Volta mode, which is really fun to play. Also FUT is still a P2W mess.
  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Dec 6, 2019
    73
    As long as Ultimate Team mode keeps making money, there’s little hope for FIFA series. [Issue#241, p.33]
  4. Sep 24, 2019
    72
    However invested you become, however much enjoyment you take from competency and victory, however many times you watch that replay back of the Volta goal you scored by flicking it backwards over a defender, losing another with an elastico and backheeling it into the net (at least double figures now), FIFA 20’s biggest failing is in producing an enjoyable football match.
  5. Oct 10, 2019
    70
    For now, FIFA 20 is better than the previous edition in terms of gameplay, and that’s somewhat sufficient. But it dropped the excellent The Journey single-player only to replace it with a stale mode. With a little luck, we might get to play Volta outside of FIFA when it belongs. To sum it up, as Comrade Dyatlov points out, it’s not great, not terrible. For any other game, this would be a bad thing, but for FIFA’s microtransaction model, it’s everything that Electronic Arts hopes for.
  6. Sep 27, 2019
    50
    With unsurprisingly shady surprise mechanics and little to no significant movement on the pitch, FIFA 20 is a stopgap entry that only has Volta to boast about.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 141
  1. Oct 8, 2019
    10
    Que gusto jugar con Messi papa! Vamo a ganar la copa libertadoresssssss!!!!!
  2. Oct 4, 2019
    2
    Same as last years FIFA, minor changes to the career mode, de facto not needed in the first place. There are still many more important thingsSame as last years FIFA, minor changes to the career mode, de facto not needed in the first place. There are still many more important things to fix first. Game play with AI is a copy and paste from last FIFA. The difference are the passes and tackles by the AI. I played in FIFA 19 with a legendary difficulty and despite scripts it was pretty even, but now with a legendary I can't do nothing with my team. They are passing the ball like boys in the school pitch. Direction of passes differs from that what I want, they are either too strong or too weak. The tackles are so OP to the AI that I don't have time to properly turn around my player to the other direction after receiving the ball and AI player already takes it from me (even with holding 'cover the ball' button). I can honestly say that the 90% of all goals I lost in the career mode were due to handicapped pass or tackle. Expand
  3. Mar 8, 2021
    0
    Most of the time when games are review bombed on Metacritic, it's an overreaction. However, this is one of those cases when it is fullyMost of the time when games are review bombed on Metacritic, it's an overreaction. However, this is one of those cases when it is fully deserved. FIFA 20 is total garbage.

    There are many minor things that I could talk about, such as the user interface, which is clearly not designed for mouse and keyboard input, or the intrusive, unskippable cinematics. However, I'm going to focus on the big problems because there are enough of those to fill a whole review.

    Mouse and keyboard controls are completely broken, and the limited customization they offer doesn't allow you to fix it. Namely, since you have to use the relative position of the mouse to control player movement, your player will constantly get dragged out of position as the camera moves around. For example, if your player is off-screen (for example because you're playing a striker, but your goalkeeper has the ball) you will be forced to run toward wherever the camera is (even if that drags you "out of position", resulting in you being penalized). It's even worse if you have multiple monitors; there is no way to lock the focus to the current window, so you will often accidentally tab out if you are trying to move your player to the side. I've been a PC gamer for 8 years and I have never played a worse PC port than this.

    Let's go onto the actual gameplay. As with every other EA Sports franchise, career mode has been neglected in favor of microtransactions in the form of FUT. It's literally the same as ten years ago, with updated graphics and not a single notable new feature (in fact I get the impression that they have even taken away features over the years). But let's suppose you're content with that... how does the actual soccer hold up? Clearly EA has put a lot of effort into developing more realistic movement, physics, and animations, but the gameplay still sort of sucks.

    AI teammates frequently misplace passes in the most cartoonish, unrealistic manner, i.e. hitting the ball less than half of the distance to their target, and all AI opponents just use the same wing play tactics over and over again. Long ball for the wingers to run onto, and cross into the box. It's really incredible how boring it gets after a while, and it's clear someone at EA doesn't understand this sport. Possibly the most annoying thing is AI teammates' tendency to pass the ball straight into pressure- often when you come under pressure from an opponent and pass the ball to them, they will pass it right back so that you are "forced" into being tackled with no chance to respond or maintain possession.

    Then there's the same scripted feel as every other FIFA game where sometimes. Without fail, the AI defenders get an obvious speed boost when chasing down attacking players that are supposedly much faster than them. Sometimes your player will take one or two extra touches after you've already pushed the button to shoot, just to give the defender the chance to recover before you can get the shot off. Sometimes the game somehow decides that your team needs to lose a game, and apparently no one- either your controlled player or an AI teammate- is able to complete a simple pass or tackle. The in-game referees are laughably inconsistent to the point that the AI can slide tackle straight through the back of my player in the penalty box, get nowhere close to the ball, and somehow it's not a foul, but somehow 30 seconds later when I do a clean sliding tackle from the front in midfield and get all ball, it's a straight red card.

    1/10
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  4. Oct 7, 2019
    0
    Тупое говно тупого говна.....хватит пилить деньговыжемалку.
  5. Jun 18, 2020
    0
    With FIFA20 word you have the definition for trash, garbage, piece of broken crap sh*t.
    Defense in career mode is broken, it does not exists.
    With FIFA20 word you have the definition for trash, garbage, piece of broken crap sh*t.
    Defense in career mode is broken, it does not exists. Year after year they remove a bit by bit from it. From the defense system of 2009/2011 to this garbage sh*t of 2020

    And also year after year they TOTALY fu*k penalty and free kicks system, and this year they invented a new stupid model, one invented by a flashlighted mind who lives in Canada and play hockey his entire life, but now it does fifa!

    -Animation for double defending is again, G.A.Y. Every time you call for a player to help, he must go from BEHIND his opponent, it doesn't matter he came from 20 meters in front of him, it must go from BEHINDE all the time. No wonder in Canada the government pay you to change your gender, bealh, but c'mon, keep this sh*t out of games, oke EA Canada !?

    -Running with the ball at your feet feels so griped for your players as if stepping on their own testicles, while for Ai, everything seems so cursive and smooth
    -Offside is dead, you press now, they will execute tomorrow, eventually...
    -Ball interception for Ai is super great, their players work at 360 degrees while yours sucks with an angle of interception of no more than 60 degrees or less.
    -Players reactions, for Ai is great, crap players from ♥♥♥ing teams with over of 60, have super reactions like Superman, while your top players are like snailman
    -The G.A.Y referees, must always dress in same colors as opponent team...since version FIFA X, they never fix this **** and this is so confusing =)))

    Building a football game in a country that knows only winter sport, especially hockey, is idiotic as fu*k! Is like for for canadians, their beloved hockey game NHL, would be built in Somalia by people who never saw snow or ice. Also most. EA should move the PRODUCTION of this game into a country with people that really knows what football is

    And it's the same FIFA 19, 18, 17
    99,999999999999% identical the same FIFA 19, even the crappy User Interface it's the same, they only change the blue color to pink, that lazy they were with this game. All is matter for EA is caching sound

    P.S: I just got on "Steam" this message "Pre-Purchase EA SPORTS™ FIFA 21" then read the first curator review

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    NOT RECOMMENDED
    By Group Of Completely Average Hipsters 19 June
    “It's like NBA 2K but for Europeans: The exact same ♥♥♥♥ing game as any past Fifa in 20 years but with more microtransactions. Simply not buying this makes you smarter than 90% of the world population”"

    Hey EA, you give a s**t about us, right ?
    PES, here I come and f**k you EA!
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  6. Sep 28, 2019
    0
    Unplayable game. Refund requested. I will avoid any future titles released from EA.
  7. Mar 4, 2020
    0
    gameplay is ok, rest is thrash. menus are same (and I mean c/p level same) as fifa 19. doesn't save user options such as timed finishing, yougameplay is ok, rest is thrash. menus are same (and I mean c/p level same) as fifa 19. doesn't save user options such as timed finishing, you have to turn it off every game. horrible UI in general Expand

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