The FIFA gaming series, developed and published by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Electronic Arts, is considered the premier football experience in the video game space. This comes despite 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the series' many flaws and shortcomings that seem to stack up year after year.
The Ultimate Team mode that allows users to build their favorite rosters via in-game grinding and/or microtransactions earns the publisher billions of dollars, but many players feel it has corrupted the overall product, leading to a soཧle focus on the money-making fantasy mode.
10 Lionel Messi (FIFA 13) 🌠
As one of the best football players in the world, Lionel Messi has had the honor of being the cover athlete in the FIFA game series 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:from Electronic Arts several times. The slogan for FIFA 13 was "Join The Club", and it was the first game in the series to support motion control technolo🌟gy for both the PlayStation Move and Xbox Kinect.
It also happened to be the first time the series featured the Sau🦩di Professional League, the Arabic football association.
9 Lionel Messi (F💫IFA 14)
In 2013 Lionel Messi returned as the cover athlete for FIFA 14, with publisher EA releasing the game 3 days earlier in the USA before it eventually came out in European territories. With both the PS4 and Xbox One releasing in 2013, this was the first entry in the FIFA series to appear on the ꦑnewer generation🐓 of video game home consoles.
It leaned on the addition of features like Human Intelligence (which improveಌ🅺d player AI) and True Player Motion (more realistic animations) to market the game to a global audience.
8 Lionel Messi (FIFA 15) ♌
FIFA 15 led w🎉ith the marketing slog🌞an "Feel The Game", as it was the first in the series to be built from the ground up for the PS4 and Xbox One. It also happened to be the last in the series to launch on the Nintendo Wii, as well as non-mobile gaming handhelds.
In addition to Lionel Messi once again being the cover athlete, the game was the first to release following EA's deal with the English Premier League for them to enter the fold as official partners in sports technology.
7 ✱ 𝄹 Lionel Messi (FIFA 16)
With an impressive four-peat, Lione𒅌l Messi managed to once again land the cover of FIFA with the release of FIFA 16 in 2015. It was a big step in terms of representation as it was the first time women, both athletes, and national teams found themselves in the premier football gaminꦰg franchise.
This entry was most notorious for the complications having to do with Brazilian teams and players. It led to th✃e Brazilian teams being comprised of completely fictional playerꦉs.
6 Marco Reus♌ (FIFA 𓃲17)
After a four-year run, Lionel Messi's reign as the cover athlete ended in 2016 when Marco Reus was named the cover athlete of FIFA 17. The cover was based on a popular vote in which Reus came out on top over some superstar names including Anthony Martial, Eden Hazard, and James Rodriguez.
This was a moment in EA's history where they made most of their teams move over to the infamous Frostbite gaming engine for development. It was also the first entry in the narrative story mode known as "The Journey".
5 Cristiano Ronaldo (FIFA 1♐8)
It's wild to think that Cristiano Ronaldo didn't represent FIFA as the global cover athlete until 2017. He's considered one of the greatest players to ever step on the pitch and is known to return sales as a marketing icon.
Speaking of icons, FIFA 18 featured Ultimate Team ICONS for the first time, when it was released in September of 2017. The ability to make faster substitutions when the ball goes out of play was added with a 🦋mechanic titled Quick Subs. It also saw the addition of four new player skills.
4 🐼 Cristiano Ronaldo (FIFA 19)
Marketing slogans are hit or miss, but with FIFA 19 they nailed it considering its slogan was simply "Champions Rise". ♐For the second year in a row, Cristiano Ronaldo donned the global cover, and on the Champions Edition of the game, he shared that space with superstar Brazilian footballer Neymar.
This entry introduced the UEFA Champions League, Europa League, and UEF👍A Super Cup events to the game, and returned the story mode featuring Alex Hunter from FIFA 18.
3 Eden Hazard (🔯FIFA 20) 🔯
In 2019, the Belgian winger Eden Hazard was rewarded with the cover 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:of FIFA 20. A major new addition to the s✃eries popped up in this entry, and that was a new mode called Volta Football. It helped usher back in the energy and urban feel of the beloved FIFA Street series with an emphasis on quicker and morౠe arcade game-like feeling gameplay.
A 🐷focus on independence and player customization made the mode feel much different than the typical FIFA experience that mostly focuses on team play and tactical decision-making.
2 Kylian Mbappé (FIFA 21) ❀
Unfortunately for Kylian Mbappé, his first time as the cover athlete of a FIFA title came alongside one that was part of a major controversy. In March of 2021 players discovered that an EA employee was selling 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:FIFA 21 Ultimate Team "Icon Moment" cards to people. These cards required a lot of grinding or m🌳icrotransaction purchases to acquire but were being sold for hundreds of U.S. dollars.
After an internal investigation, EA dis🍒covered that multiple employees were doing this and the content granting system ac♛cessible to employees was suspended indefinitely.
1 Kyli🌠an Mbappé (FIFA 22)
FIFA 22 features Kylian Mbappé returning as the cover athlete. Outside of that, ve꧅ry little is known about the upcoming entry in the global football franchise from publisher Electronic Arts. It is set to currently release towards the beginning of October in 2021 but is subject to change.
It will be the first entry for FIFA to have🔯 a full year of development focusing on the next-generation gaming home consoles, the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.