One of EAs main objectives with FIFA 15 was to install a sense of feeling and emotion into a game which was starting to feel a little stiff and robotic. The trailers tagline Feel The Game announces their intent to infuse their latest entry into their football franchise with all of the passion and drama which makes the sport what it is. The aforementioned improvements they have made to the presentation of supporters certainly helps with this but changes made with the players themselves does most of the work in capturing the emotion of the beautiful game. Each player now has a complex system of emotions as well as an in-game memory system which determines how they will react to an event in the match. There are now some 600 different reactions which a player can use to express himself, so no longer will we have to sit through the same limited range of animations over-and-over again as on FIFA 14. For example, if your forward has missed one shot too many he might receive exasperated looks from his teammates or a stern word from the squads captain. We see several examples of this in the trailer as Mousa Dembélé and Aaron Ramsey who had been jostling with one another vent their frustrations by squaring-up. Similarly, when Raúl García misses an important shot his teammates on the bench gasp and the aggravated Spaniard drops to the floor and beats his fists into the dirt. This addition of emotional intelligence is long overdue and will prove to be a huge addition to FIFA 15, encapsulating the reason why many of us originally fell in love with the sport.
Hailing from South East London, Sam Heard is an aspiring writer and recent graduate from the University of Warwick. Sam's favourite things include energy drinks, late nights spent watching the UFC with his girlfriend and annihilating his friends at FIFA.
