Ever since EA Sports overtook Pro Evo Soccer as the premium football franchise, year after year we heap praise on the latest FIFA title and call it the most beautiful football game of all time. It might seem silly, but it's true. And in FIFA 14 we have our current champion. Yes, FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 was released a few months later, but was just about a carbon copy of this incredible 2013 release, with added World Cup flavor to cash in on the hype, but lacking the depth of game options of the core franchise. As it stands, this is as good as it gets. Developed for just about every gaming platform known to mankind, including a curtain call for the PS2, FIFA 14 took the franchise into the eighth generation for the first time. The revised game engine gave previous gen systems a lick of paint but not much else, while the Xbox One and PS4 versions were instantly regarded as the most vividly lifelike recreations of the sport.
1. FIFA 15
And now we're heading into the great unknown. EA Sports is set to blow us away with FIFA 15 in a matter of weeks, and excitement among the FIFA faithful is at fever pitch. Much has been said about the graphical advancements this time, and we can assume that the extra time that EA Canada has had with the new hardware will pay off handsomely. We also now have a whole new generation of new FIFA games to look forward to, and one can only imagine what EA Sports will conjure up in the coming years. This is probably the first time in far too long that there are new visual tweaks on the way which actually warrant genuine enthusiasm - properly animated hair, facial expressions wrought with emotion, player kits which get increasingly dirty through the game, even pitch wear and tear persistent through the match, this is as real as it gets. Yes folks, 23 September couldn't come soon enough.
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