Instalments of FIFA in recent years have tended to always favour the attacking player. If youre blitzing down the wing with Lucas Moura, for example, the odds favour that you are not only going to beat even a quality left-back like Henri Bedimo, but youre going to make him look like a lumbering carthorse in the process. Calculations by EA revealed that around 80% of tackles in professional football result in the defender being successful so they felt that the tackling in their FIFA series needed amending. Based on what weve seen in the trailer and also suggestions made by EA Canada, more power will be given to the defending player in FIFA 15. In yesterdays E3 trailer we saw four-goals and three noteworthy tackles this obviously still seems more offensively orientated but in comparison to the footage of previous years there is a definite sense that more emphasis is being place on defence. Indeed, the first football action we are shown in the trailer is of Aaron Ramsey delivering a crunching sliding tackle to Spurs midfielder Mousa Dembélé this could be a statement of intent by EA, showing how they intend to foreground defensive play.
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.
