Chances are, the main reason you have bought FIFA 15 is for Ultimate Team. Even if you are not football's biggest fan, the addictive mode that EA keep improving year on year is a joy to play through. Leaving the micro-transactions out of it, Ultimate Team is best enjoyed when building a team; player by player and if you want to completely show up opponents who spend real life money on packs, you best concentrate on the single most important feature in Ultimate Team - player chemistry. Basically, each player has a possible chemistry rating of 10.This is divided by favoured position, formation and his league or nationality standing. Each player then links with each team-mate with lines between each player colour coded from red to orange to green. For example, Sergio Ramos and Gerard Pique play for different clubs but are both Spanish and play in the same league so they will be green. Mascherano and Ramos play in the same league but for different clubs and don't share the same nationality either so they will be orange. Similarly, Ramos and Vincent Kompany will have red lines matching them as they have nothing in common. It is vital to have a chemistry rating of 100 if you want to play beautiful football. Mixing teams and players can be achieved with some amazing hybrid squads but FIFA 15 is the first game in the series which reinforces the idea of building a team and not littering your team with galacticos.
Barry O' Halloran has been a whatculture writer for the last two years and having recently graduated, now plans on writing about games & movies until his hands fall off. Follow him on twitter!
