FIFA 22

 PlayStation 5
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2.7

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 472 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 79 out of 472
  2. Mixed: 54 out of 472
  3. Negative: 339 out of 472
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  1. muttsy13
    Oct 9, 2021
    5
    Poor passing no players make runs defenders with no pace being like usian bolt catching strikers switching players sends you the wrong teammate frame rate chuggin mid game career mode still full of bugs adding in features that they took out years ago doesnt cut it to me the worst fifa ive ever played badly needs a patch to fix these issues
  2. Sephiroth1804
    Feb 2, 2022
    7
    Graphics: 8
    Sound: 8
    Gameplay: 7
    Online: 7
    Modality: 8
    Entertainment: 7

    Total: 7
  3. Bubbsta1
    Sep 29, 2021
    5
    Once again, career mode (manager mode) players have been neglected. It's 95% the same as last year. Here's what's new:

    1. Some new hairstyles and a new beard to customize your manager with. (There's no new clothing though. Exactly the same options as last year). 2. More realistic looking randomly generated players. In the past fake players looked waxy and weird to say the least. Some    Once again, career mode (manager mode) players have been neglected. It's 95% the same as last year. Here's what's new:

    1. Some new hairstyles and a new beard to customize your manager with. (There's no new clothing though. Exactly the same options as last year).

    2. More realistic looking randomly generated players. In the past fake players looked waxy and weird to say the least. Some of them still do, but some of the fake players in the Youth Academy look like real people with improved skin and hair textures on PS5. This makes growing young players and integrating them into the First Team more enjoyable.

    3. Some new cutscenes during transfer negotiations. Also instead of having to "hold X to skip" dialogue, you can now just tap X (or A on Xbox) to skip most dialogue. This speeds up the transfer negotiation cutscenes. In settings you can also disable "Hold X to skip" entirely from the career mode so you can skip pre-match cutscenes with a button tap rather than a button hold.

    4. A few new objectives like "reduce player wages by £150,000 a week" or "keep salary growth under 15%" and things similar. But as with previous FIFAs, some objectives are ridiculously hard or don't register such as "sign a veteran player" which is hit and miss.

    5. Players seem to be less complaintive. Henderson is an "Important" player, but I've barely played him. I completed a full first season without him complaining about his game time. I could be wrong - this is my first career save - but there seems to be less "boss I need to play more" emails, although you do get emails about other subjects like contracts etc.

    For Manager Career Mode specifically, that's about it. Everything else is the same. Same layout, same tiles and menus, just re-skinned. As for the gameplay (offline. I don't play FUT) - people are calling it more realistic and less arcade-y. I don't know what's realistic about finding it easier to score a banger from 25/30 yards than to get in the box.

    But yeah, the game is slower. The CPU is more difficult. I could score 5 - 10 goals easily on Legendary difficulty in FIFA 21. This game...usually 3 or less. There's less chances, shots and goals which is why a lot of early players have resorted to long range shooting to score. On average I'm getting about 4 or 5 clear cut chances a game, if that. And with the newly improved keepers I put maybe 2 or 3 away.

    To enjoy Career Mode on Legendary or Ultimate difficulty, you have to come to terms with FIFA no longer being a casual experience. Scoring is harder, defending is harder, holding possession is harder, penetrating defences...I could go on. If you can accept it as being more like real football where results are often marginal, then career mode will feel less like a chore and you may even start to like the unpredictability of a season.

    My biggest gripe with the gameplay is the player switching. A defender will be a yard away from the attacking player, I press L1 or flick RS to switch player, and it will jump to someone 10 yards away despite there being a defender literally right next to the attacker. Conceding last minute goals like that is beyond infuriating. I was seriously close to dashing the controller at my new OLED. So if you're reading this and you're at that stage, I feel you. And if you haven't got the game yet, you will get to that stage.

    But after 2 seasons and dozens of hours of getting to know the game (I've been playing non stop since last week), I'm now controlling scorelines more. I still just lost 3 - 1 to Spurs, got knocked out of the Carabao Cup and the Champions League, but I'm starting to like that. You can no longer just blitz the season beating everyone by 6 - 0 and winning the quadruple.

    Overall, aside from the atrotious player switching and the park-the-bus CPU (which I hope EA will patch, or I could just turn the difficulty down), the gameplay just about gets a thumbs up from me. For Career Mode specifically, it's a massive disappointment. You're spending £69.99 on updated kits, re-skinned menus and some new face scans.    … Expand
  4. Julinitot
    Dec 25, 2021
    6
    First, as always, I am forced to comment on the stupid/hate score here. Fact: every year the game gets a little bit better. Even though the upgrades are probably not worth the price of the full game, it is impossible to rate this game below 5 imo, there is just too much quality & content here.

    Then, my honest review. This year, the new player's animations coupled with a revamped ball    First, as always, I am forced to comment on the stupid/hate score here. Fact: every year the game gets a little bit better. Even though the upgrades are probably not worth the price of the full game, it is impossible to rate this game below 5 imo, there is just too much quality & content here.

    Then, my honest review. This year, the new player's animations coupled with a revamped ball physics bring a lot more variety to the gameplay. The balance is also a lot better and I felt my central defenders - after trying the "step up" instructions - were at long last able to position themselves correctly.

    Unfortunately, it seems the opponent AI rarely use this tactic, defenders will just backpedal to cover any through pass and let you find an easy shooting position. For the record, I played career mode on legendary with Kaiserslautern and found the game a lot easier. I also chose the "strict" transfer option which proved to be a late game breaker. After 4 years, I managed to improved all my young players above 80, some wonderkids even reached 88. I won the bundesliga and reached the semi in the champion's league. So I finally got a lot money and was really looking forward to further improve my squad. But no, the game is basically over because the "strict" transfer option won't let me buy any player above 90. Sad, very sad.

    Finally, as a career mode player, i am a little bit disapointed as it is exactly the same as last year. On the plus side, it runs a lot better on ps5 with almost no loading time but there is still so much room for improvement. Interviews before game are so random, the strict transfer option does not really work, half of your academy player will have the bug "ridiculous thin arm + no number on shirt", player development is still OP for the 5 stars skills and wrong foot perks. And last but not least, every career playthrough will be identical. Don't expect any random events who might challenge your manager skills like, idk: press scandals that destroy one player moral, 2 of your own players fighting on the pitch because one slept with the wife of the other, young star partying too much before games and destroying his progression, racism inside some stadiums, referees scandals with corruption... Nope, nothing will ever happen.    … Expand
  5. LonestarBR
    Sep 28, 2021
    5
    Finalmente um fifa q respeita a fisica. O melhor desde o fifa 14. Por favor EA, não estrague o jogo com seus patchs.
  6. lolsummxoxo
    Dec 10, 2021
    7
    Its decent. I only play FUT. The matches are quite fun, however it feels a bit like a struggle to get the ball, score goals etc. Maybe thats just football
  7. alirezaporshe
    Mar 24, 2022
    7
    i played on PS5 and i bought it on a 65% discount from psn uk only for 25£ and this is just the right price.i would never ever buy fifa22 for 69£ .buy something else you wont miss anything if you already have fifa 20 or even fifa19... gameply graphics and everything is as same as old versions,,,,dont let advertises fool you.there is just absoloutly zero difference between fifa22 ps4 andi played on PS5 and i bought it on a 65% discount from psn uk only for 25£ and this is just the right price.i would never ever buy fifa22 for 69£ .buy something else you wont miss anything if you already have fifa 20 or even fifa19... gameply graphics and everything is as same as old versions,,,,dont let advertises fool you.there is just absoloutly zero difference between fifa22 ps4 and ps5 versions.
    but the game is fine.its enjoyable its fun. i like it . if you are plannint to buy it and you dont own an old version buy when still there is discount    … Expand
  8. Iceberg91
    Nov 10, 2021
    7
    lievemente migliorato rispetto al 21 resta troppo arcade skill e velocisti la fanno da padrone non e simulativo fut solito pay to win scriptato carriera migliorata nel complesso gioco godibile ma mediocre purtroppo non ha rivali sul mercato dopo il fallimento di efootball.....
  9. getrwuegyweh
    Oct 11, 2021
    7
    An actual refreshingly decent fifa for once.

    FIFA has been stale and copy + paste for pretty much the past 10 years..... now this fifa is more slow paces and actually decent. The bad reviews are from those crying children who cannot abuse pace anymore.
  10. Vlad013
    Oct 10, 2021
    5
    They managed to **** up the only good part of the fifa series: before if you played with a 3 star team, you could set up the game in auch a way, that you would only get opponents that also played with 3 star teams. Now regardless of my setting, I get opponents playing with 5 star teams. Such a garbage...

    The only good thing is that the game is slower.
  11. zasaz13
    Sep 14, 2022
    6
    Probably the best fifa in the last 5 years. They improved the playability and the movements of the players, but to be honest, this year is more difficult to deffend. Still the AI sometimes it's totally unstoppable, and you feel that if they want to score, they will
  12. MJ_QaTaR
    May 21, 2022
    7
    You get bord super fast.
    But other than that it's kind of fun to pass time.
  13. Slaven89
    Sep 29, 2021
    6
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  14. Zski
    Jun 11, 2022
    6
    It’s hard to find where I stand with FIFA 22. I was a die hard FIFA fan, and bought every single game at launch until around FIFA 17. I stopped because it felt like the new gameplay mechanics were always unpolished which made them feel like they were going backwards with each year, and it felt as if the only thing EA cared about improving was FIFA Ultimate Team, for obvious reasons. IIt’s hard to find where I stand with FIFA 22. I was a die hard FIFA fan, and bought every single game at launch until around FIFA 17. I stopped because it felt like the new gameplay mechanics were always unpolished which made them feel like they were going backwards with each year, and it felt as if the only thing EA cared about improving was FIFA Ultimate Team, for obvious reasons. I missed the past two years of FIFA, and it definitely feels like all of the updates they made previously are more refined. This is a good thing, but it says a lot about the intentions of the company if it takes them 3-4 years to fix new mechanics that should have been ready to go when they first rolled out. Regardless, we are finally here. It finally feels like a smooth FIFA experience again.

    At it’s core, FIFA 22 is a solid FIFA game. It does not shine in any areas, but it’s also not overtly weak in any areas either. It feels like a game that is exactly what it is, a game that is overall very good but makes minimal progress year after year. I think the long running sports franchise is in need of a reboot, just rebuild the entire game from the ground up, because it feels way too similar to the FIFA games I played 10+ years ago. I understand this is generally how sports games are, and from a business angle it makes perfect sense, but I think we are due. The only major issue I have with the game is that it feels like the AI has become much worse. It almost feels like every player has a “zone” they operate in, and they have become more rigid with only playing in their zone. It’s far too common when I send a second defender to pursue the attacker with the ball, he kind of hovers near them and then completely stops covering them, leaving a huge open for a super clean cross. Auto switching and player pursuit has always been an issue, buts noticeably worse.

    The graphics are good, but still feel like they are from last generation. The sound design is the same as always, which I must admit has been very good for awhile now. The presentation is just about the same - minor menu changes, minor overlay changes, but it’s all the same. FIFA also needs to figure out something with the Italian league, not that I’m a fan, but they are losing teams a bit too often now.

    All in all, I enjoyed FIFA 22. It’s a solid FIFA game, if you enjoy FIFA then there is no reason you wouldn’t like this one. Objectively, I give the game an 8/10, but the series as a whole needs some changes.    … Expand
  15. Dreifachs
    Nov 30, 2021
    7
    Fun game play, some small improvements from the game play. I only play 'Season' and career manager mode. Hopefully Fifa improve the game by making PSG less overpowered and more realistic.
  16. DaniiChile
    May 11, 2022
    5
    La jugabilidad es decepcionante comparado a entregas anteriores. Solo gráficamente resalta, aunque tiene colores muy chillones. Me decepcionó.
  17. 0815Mann
    Jun 10, 2022
    6
    Kleine Verbesserungen im Gameplay, sonst wenig neues. Grafik ist okay aber noch nicht auf "Next Gen"-Niveau. Besonders ärgerlich für mich: ein Dreiviertel Jahr nach Veröffentlichung bestehen noch massive Bugs im Karriere-Modus (Saisonziele). Außerdem gibt es immer noch keine Online-Lobby für Multiplayer mit mehr als 2 Personen.
  18. tezad
    May 12, 2022
    5
    Le problème de ce jeu c'est qu'il veut TOUT faire sans y parvenir, c'est donc terriblement frustrant.

    On devrait acheter ce jeu selon ce qu'on veut en faire, c'est à dire par module. Tel joueur veut le mode FUT, il le prend, un autre le mode carrière, il ne prend que ce dont il a besoin. Plutôt que d'acheter un jeu complet à 80 € frustrant, je voudrai acheter le mode carrière hyper    Le problème de ce jeu c'est qu'il veut TOUT faire sans y parvenir, c'est donc terriblement frustrant.

    On devrait acheter ce jeu selon ce qu'on veut en faire, c'est à dire par module. Tel joueur veut le mode FUT, il le prend, un autre le mode carrière, il ne prend que ce dont il a besoin. Plutôt que d'acheter un jeu complet à 80 € frustrant, je voudrai acheter le mode carrière hyper complet et super fun pour 50 € par exemple. Si je veux 3 modules, je paie 150 € mais au final j'ai un jeu top dans tous les domaines.

    Moi qui ne fait QUE le mode carrière, j'aimerai la possibilité de gérer vraiment ma carrière, quand on a un contrat, on ne sait même pas pour combien de temps, on ne négocie rien et plein d'aspects manquent au final...    … Expand
  19. trinovatic
    Nov 27, 2022
    6
    después del 17 no me compré ningún Fifa, todos fueron prestados o algunos me los quedé xd, este solo lo jugué pq la PS5 lo regalaba y pues otro juego de fondo como el fort y rocket xddd
  20. rcls
    May 26, 2023
    5
    I would really like to give this game a better score, but there is just one aspect of it that is driving me insane. I¨ve clocked in probably 100 hours on this game and I mostly play local career mode. I started by controlling my own player, and soon moved on to controlling the whole team and I could see my team¨s IQ drop massively.

    The AI is absolutely abysmal in defence. The only ways    I would really like to give this game a better score, but there is just one aspect of it that is driving me insane. I¨ve clocked in probably 100 hours on this game and I mostly play local career mode. I started by controlling my own player, and soon moved on to controlling the whole team and I could see my team¨s IQ drop massively.

    The AI is absolutely abysmal in defence. The only ways for you to score is to make a run and just zip it behind the goalie. If you try to dribble in the middle, you immediately get marked by at least three opponents and lose the ball. Then you go on defence and you are supposed to control all players on your defensive line because they are useless. 5 players standing in a line, while the opposing AI makes a run by the sideline into the middle and finds the perfect spots with the perfect passes. Opposing players can grab the ball from you if they get too close, but the only way you can grab the ball from them is by intercepting a pass, or by tackling them head on and hope the ball doesn't find it's way to another opponent.

    This absolutely pisses me off. Defending makes the game unplayable as you need to focus 80% of your energy on it, and score with the remaining 20% by making a run for it. Player movements are incredibly stiff, passing inaccurate, AI is rather poor and of this seems to indicate that EA is more focused on milking the online side of the game for more money than making it playable for everyone. Too bad.

    At least I got it at a discount.    … Expand

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 61 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 44 out of 61
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 61
  3. Negative: 0 out of 61
  1. CD-Action
    Jan 19, 2022
    75
    FIFA 22 shows its wasted potential every step of the way. When everything works as it should, it’s the best FIFA in years. The problem is that while sometimes the new HyperMotion technology works great and really makes a noticeable difference, the game often picks wrong animations from its mind-boggling array of 8 million. Let’s hope EA Sports builds on these promising foundations, fixes what needs to be fixed and delivers a truly great experience next year. [12/2021, p.36]
  2. Gamersky
    Dec 2, 2021
    74
    FIFA 22 has improved the feel and smoothness of actions, but there are almost no changes in the game mode and gameplay. The reduction of stand-alone content makes it not very suitable as the first FIFA entry for newcomers.
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  3. Games.cz
    Nov 30, 2021
    80
    FIFA 22 looks amazing on next-gen hardware which was to be expected. What was not to be expected is the brilliant gameplay. It still isn’t a full-blown simulation, of course, but it’s way more tactical and fun than before, including the (in)famous Ultimate Team. The only thing that truly suffers is the neglected Career Mode.
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