FIFA 19 Beta Review: 8 Hands-On Impressions You Need To Know

Is this the year EA right their wrongs?

by Ewan Paterson
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FIFA 19 is a little under a month from its release, and while the latest instalment in EA's long-running football series looks to be offering improvements aplenty, finding consensus amongst the sport-sim's fans has proven difficult.

This has proven especially true in the wake of FIFA 19's closed beta, which ended August 20. Issues regarding the game's upcoming Career Mode were documented across various channels, and though the final instalment in The Journey has gotten plenty excited too, there is a danger that this latest FIFA debuts with a whimper, and not a bang.

With the demo set to release to the public in just a few weeks' time, and with minimal changes expected between now and then, time is running short for EA to properly address community concerns ahead of its release September 28.

Regardless of that however, it’s still clear that FIFA 19 is still FIFA - it still plays, looks and feels much like you’d expect a FIFA game to play. There are some tweaks to gameplay worth noting though, and with 19 arguably presenting a greater step-up between entries than its predecessor, it makes sense to detail all that works (and what doesn’t).

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.

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