FIFA 21

 PlayStation 4
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0.9

Overwhelming dislike- based on 2129 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 117 out of 2129
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  3. Negative: 1,957 out of 2129
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  1. Faconeye
    Feb 9, 2021
    2
    Most buggy football game ever. Very little improvemenets in career mode, but i must admit that i liked all 2 new changes, for example simulation and possibility to change position of a player). Cooperation seasons are so buggy that we cant play (why there is no option 2 vs 2???). Really very disapointment, Dont boy this now, its not worth it
  2. Dranse
    Feb 8, 2021
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. nada nuevo, no vale la pena.
    solo cambiaron la forma de hacer los regates, con lo que cuesta aprenderselos en fifa para que despues los cambien.    … Expand
  3. Johnswee1984
    Feb 8, 2021
    4
    Argubly one of the worse sports games ever. The defending is a joke, every team you play against plays the same style of play and keeps the ball for ages and then you just counter amd score. Every game finishes 4-5 or 5-3. Such a joke
  4. ToshLichev
    Feb 7, 2021
    3
    After 3 years of being on team PES I started feeling that there HAS to be a better football experience so I decided to go back to FIFA just to give it a try.

    The last decent FIFA I played was 17, 18 was quite bad and 19 was just unplayable and that is where I switched to PES. Sitting down to play FIFA for the first time since 2018 was certainly quite a shock. To sum it up - this has    After 3 years of being on team PES I started feeling that there HAS to be a better football experience so I decided to go back to FIFA just to give it a try.

    The last decent FIFA I played was 17, 18 was quite bad and 19 was just unplayable and that is where I switched to PES. Sitting down to play FIFA for the first time since 2018 was certainly quite a shock. To sum it up - this has nothing to do with football, it's a football game for people who have never watched football.

    Let's start with the pros - good soundtrack. Volta is also ok.

    Now time for the cons:
    The gameplay is disgustingly awful. Nothing has weight to it, the scripting is absurd, players are flying all over the place, you need to attempt a body slam to get a foul and the skill moves are pulled straight out of shaolin soccer - this is not what football looks or feels like.
    The presentation is actually awful. I had gotten used to people telling me that PES doesn't have good presentation but I decided that I was making a trade - presentation for good gameplay. But nah, most of the players look NOTHING like their real life counterparts, a hefty amount are using VERY OLD (we're talking 2015) player models and a very small fraction are actually up to date and looking like the real deal. Menues feel laggy and the graphics have this "coated in vaseline" feel to them.

    The only game mode that has received any attention is FUT which has always been a waste of time to me. Everything else is more or less the exact same as it was back in 2018.

    EA have once again managed to hit a new low... and no one is surprised.    … Expand
  5. TomHall1606
    Feb 7, 2021
    0
    **** game. AI is absolutely terrible. I've seen u8s have better keeping skills than most keepers on this game. Defenders are useless. Game is same **** for the past god knows how long
  6. jamiemas
    Feb 7, 2021
    0
    Fundamentally this company have failed to deliver a reliable and fun football game for years. The lack of change with this game each year is just appalling. This game honestly has the potential to be amazing but unfortunately its owned by a company that do not listen to feedback and will happily cash-grab off anyone still willing to put money into this game. As someone that only playsFundamentally this company have failed to deliver a reliable and fun football game for years. The lack of change with this game each year is just appalling. This game honestly has the potential to be amazing but unfortunately its owned by a company that do not listen to feedback and will happily cash-grab off anyone still willing to put money into this game. As someone that only plays career mode, I can't even imagine the anguish of spending money on packs for years just to see the game not only look the same year on year but some how this year play worse than its predecessor. Gameplay wise, they fix a problem for next release only for 2 new ones to appear. And if you can look past the shoddy gameplay its just boring, career mode is just a copy-paste with different UI. Looking at Football Manager and PES you'd think the sky is the limit with different management interactions but its all rubbish. This game needs a complete overhaul of new ideas, or it needs to step aside and let another developer have a go. This EA monopoly needs to end and stop treating the players like fools.… Expand
  7. Ikarrrororo
    Feb 7, 2021
    0
    The worst edition iv like to play in all fifa game, handicap in fut destroy game so hard
  8. bear00766
    Feb 6, 2021
    0
    Same old. No fundamental changes. Different kits, Different music and Different camera angle. Definitely worth
  9. SmokeyBear759
    Feb 5, 2021
    0
    This is an insult to the sports community there is NOTHING DIFFERENT in comparison to fifa 20 to fifa 21 the only thing that changed is that they put a 1 instead of a 0 and the people who defend this game are special ed because there isnt anything here thats worth your money
  10. FurkFifa21
    Feb 5, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Worst Fifa game ever Just deleted it from my console
    Its not fun anymore, pay     … Expand
  11. jvdahmen
    Feb 4, 2021
    0
    This is legit the worst fifa in so long... Idc what people say about 20... It was at least fun when you scored.
  12. goldwarrior97
    Feb 4, 2021
    0
    Fifa 21 is the worst game I ever played in my entire life, I'm beeing honest. If I could I would get a refund. Most unfair game ever, please don't buy it you will regret it.
  13. Pere95
    Feb 3, 2021
    1
    Es el peor juego que puede existir. IA nula, cambios de jugabilidad cada mes, pay to win de manual. Mal, todo mal
  14. HarisBIH9
    Feb 1, 2021
    0
    Jedes Jahr der gleiche Scheiß, Hauptsache die 9 jährigen kaufen von Mamis Kreditkarte Fifa points. Verbrennt EA
  15. Mattorious_swe
    Feb 1, 2021
    0
    I play a lot of career mode on world class dif, built up a club from Eng div 2 and all the way up to premier league, won some cups, and even beat liverpool and other big teams and won champions league/europa league, however there is a BIG issue with pre-determined performance or scripting as some call it. Some games my players would miss every shot (even if i checked the replay and saw iI play a lot of career mode on world class dif, built up a club from Eng div 2 and all the way up to premier league, won some cups, and even beat liverpool and other big teams and won champions league/europa league, however there is a BIG issue with pre-determined performance or scripting as some call it. Some games my players would miss every shot (even if i checked the replay and saw i aimed right), so I'd restart the game and my shots would go in. Other types of games are when the opposition is super high pressing, or games where every almost pass is missplaced. So those kinds of pre-determinded games happened sometimes and when they did i restarted to fix it.
    Once I got to premier league I had just won the Super Cup against Juventus 3-1, challenging match but we outplayed them. I then meet Fullham and Everton in the first matches of the premier league, and I get completely destroyed, when i tell my players to sprint they jog, every bounce goes to opposing player and my players are suddenly playing extremely poorly, against Fullham. So there seems to be some kind of factors affecting my players since it's a (premier) league game even if it's against (much) worse opposition than what I'd normally face. This was very, very, disappointing since i finally got in to the premier league and 5 games in I didn't see any point continuing and removed the 200+ match save that I'd been playing on for a long time. The scripting makes this game unplayable, at least against AI. I wish it was a setting I could turn off so that my players play like they can and my opposition is better instead of that my players are suddenly awful.    … Expand
  16. emreglbdk
    Jan 31, 2021
    4
    Fifa 20 is no different. The only good thing is the innovations in the career mode.
  17. Fvega92
    Jan 30, 2021
    0
    Sucks worst fifa ever, fifa should take the franchise away from ea and actually make a decent game
  18. Yasyasys
    Jan 29, 2021
    0
    Horrible gameplay, hasn’t been this bad since 10 years at least, EA are a joke!
  19. Gitje
    Jan 26, 2021
    0
    For a game that releases yearly and builds upon the codebase of each version, you'd expect it to only grow and become better. Yet, EA & their FIFA product line, seems to prove that the opposite is possible.
    I bought this used, for 10 euros, and I'm going to sell it on again after only +-10 hours of playing, because:
    - Keepers are still completely clueless, parrying shots central, diving    For a game that releases yearly and builds upon the codebase of each version, you'd expect it to only grow and become better. Yet, EA & their FIFA product line, seems to prove that the opposite is possible.
    I bought this used, for 10 euros, and I'm going to sell it on again after only +-10 hours of playing, because:
    - Keepers are still completely clueless, parrying shots central, diving with their head towards the goal instead of reaching to make a save, sometimes even just coming out just to do nothing and give the opponent a free goal...
    - The game changes my formation mid-game to the 'default' team formation, this happens in roughly 2 out of 3 season games I play.
    - Players make the most unnatural movements, there's still a lot of 50/50 tackles and defenders still lock onto the ball instead of it's trajectory when a long ball is played in.
    - Game still seems to fail to recognize tackles & draw cards accordingly
    - Scripting / Dynamic difficulty, or simply bugged gamestate if you don't like the previous 2 words, is still very much a thing,
    - Do I even have to mention the cover art?

    They cut down budget on almost everything, except for FUT features, because that's where the money is. All other features get neglected, including gameplay.

    These are only a handful of things that I came across during a few hours of playing, while only testing seasons. To the people that say the career mode's been improved, has it really though? Remember FIFA 20's simply wasn't playable, so the bar isn't set very high.

    As a developer myself, it blows my mind, how a game that is a live product continues to release in a broken state and have the company get away with it, year after year.
    If it was a one-hit release game, I'd give it a 6 maybe, but since it's a continuous game service, this state is simply inexcusable and shouldn't be accepted by it's consumer base.    … Expand
  20. yjecht
    Jan 26, 2021
    0
    This is not a game.
    It's a waste of time just to play.
    Does EA have any football experience?
    I don't want to do it for free.
    It is impossible to get money from users with this quality.
    Very crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap crap game,It's better I made it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  21. Exterminador_d7
    Jan 26, 2021
    0
    Why do people keep giving money to this damn company that only knows how to steal its customers and induce them to spend much more than necessary if they receive nothing in return for abusive purchases and predatory commercial tactics.
  22. lolbrodas
    Jan 25, 2021
    0
    Mierda de juego xdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxddxddzzdzzsdzsdzsszzddzddxxddd
  23. Elianchavez
    Jan 23, 2021
    0
    Una mierda todos los años igual, lleno de robos,bugs y pay to win, no lo recomiendo bajo ningun punto de vista
  24. AndreRed
    Jan 23, 2021
    0
    Tutti gli anni vi impegnate per fare peggio e ci riuscite ogni volta alla grande
  25. peterplysgaming
    Jan 23, 2021
    0
    Completely broken game, **** mechanics, and extreme button delay. FIFA needs to focus on fixing the actual game play rather than better pixel quality and other useless ****
  26. abruzzi99777
    Jan 23, 2021
    0
    Absolutely bad experience. They cannot get simple mechanics right, Just learn something from rocket league. In order to have competitiveness EA is making the AI stronger each year and this absolutely the worst football simulation ever
  27. joshhpaynee
    Jan 23, 2021
    0
    A more detailed review below....

    You would think a game that came out every year could eventually get it right. Fifa has basically become a copy and paste from previous years, with minor changes. I'm not sure what game the professional reviewers are writing about, or is they have to say its good because it is very far from it. First up, the defence in this game is    A more detailed review below....

    You would think a game that came out every year could eventually get it right. Fifa has basically become a copy and paste from previous years, with minor changes. I'm not sure what game the professional reviewers are writing about, or is they have to say its good because it is very far from it.

    First up, the defence in this game is just...non-existent. They introduced more attacking "improvements" and once again have done nothing to make the defence any better. Often your players will just stand there and watch as the opposing players run past them, either with or without the ball. If you are playing with CM's then be prepared to have to control them ALL the time, otherwise the same above will happen, they will just stand there and rotate (not turn) as players walk past them. I cant even tell you how many times the ball has rolled only a few inches past them and they have done nothing, or had to watch as i control my cb to track a strikers run whilst my CM stands completely still as players walk past them.

    The game in an attacking sense is all about pace as well. Quicker players = better players. With the extremely over powered through ball combined with this pace and the inability to defend, it is next to impossible to defend, just sit back and hope for the best really. In about 95% of games i have played there has been over 5 goals in total. It becomes a game where literally every attack can lead to a goal.

    Goalkeepers may as well not be on the pitch, they are useless. Often they just fall under shots, and very rarely will actually save anything, let alone hold onto it. Most corners are punched out straight back to the opponent. If the ball goes back to a keeper from , say, an oppo bad through ball rather than being able to control the keeper they will normally slice the ball away for a throw in.

    Corners can be okay, but if the other team manages to win the ball it's very easy to score on the counter.

    In FUT (if you play that) the variety is gone. I remember the old fifas when this was about mixing teams up etc, now i rarely see a team i haven't played several times before (back 4 of mendy, varane, dijk walker).

    The matchmaking system is broken. It does not take into account the level of your team, only your skill rating, why not just combine the two? There is no point me with my average team constantly playing against people with in form ronaldo and other legends making up their team just because they have the same skill rating. The gap in sides you face negates the evenly matched skill rating. It also means there is no real point building any bronze/silver teams.

    And my final point, the broken mechanics of the game. A huge glaring one is kick off goals. For some reason after scoring, its very easy for the other team to simply run through your whole team and score a goal. Especially with the kick up "glitch", not necessarily a glitch but a player juggling a ball can travel from the halfway line through to the goal with relative ease. Its broken things like this that still have not been fixed, and ea probably wont bother until Fifa 22 comes out to do it.

    Before writing this i have played over 100 games, thinking that was a fair amount to give an honest and unbiased review of the game. It's completely broken. Defence as mentioned is pointless, the cpu off the ball do nothing to help anymore, instead just standing there and watching. Your best bet is basically to go for the all out attack. It isn't uncommon at all that i've found myself 3-0 down from 3 attacks in 20 minutes, only to win the game 8-3 in the end.

    Overall, the game is extremely bad, theres no way around that. FUT has lost any variety or need to build different teams as well.    … Expand
  28. marticarti
    Jan 21, 2021
    0
    This game is not football, is nothing. The people who made this game dont know nothing about football, zero, 0.
  29. Panos83
    Jan 20, 2021
    0
    Just **** The worst fifa I've played, I've been playing since 2014 and this may be the worst one
  30. MathDito
    Jan 19, 2021
    0
    Não é exagero dizer que esse é o pior FIFA já feito, e para aqueles que jogam online, sabe do que estou falando.
    Totalmente quebrado, servidores horríveis, partidas manipuladas, um verdadeiro cacino.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 62 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 62
  2. Mixed: 36 out of 62
  3. Negative: 0 out of 62
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 4, 2021
    60
    Game for fans who either need to work online at FUT every day, or instead want to try a modified career mode, which is starting to really look like Football Manager. Otherwise, it's a decent update for the full price. [Issue#307]
  2. CD-Action
    Dec 18, 2020
    70
    The FIFA series desperately needs a fresh start. Right now, it relies mainly on the Ultimate Team mode and marketing, while going around in circles. Instead of leaping into the future, FIFA 21 takes half a step forward and two steps sideways in an attempt to differentiate itself from its predecessor well enough to rationalize spending money. If you already own FIFA 20 and are not addicted to Ultimate Team, you can sit this one out. [12/2020, p.44]
  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Nov 15, 2020
    70
    A consummate package of shooting, slide tackling and swearing, but with some familiar current-gen frustrations. The saving grace could be FIFA 21’s free PS5 upgrade. [Issue#182, p.137]
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