![]() ![]() ![]() It’s based on the Ultimate Team mode from a few years ago, and has no new features like Squad Battles, FUT Champions, stadium customisation or Seasons (where you perform tasks within a certain timeframe to earn XP and unlock special players). It’s almost as if EA has just kept it in to remind Switch players what they could be enjoying if they’d bothered to buy the game on another system: you know, the systems where people actually spend money on microtransactions and are therefore worth allocating development time to.įor starters, it’s half-baked. Perhaps most galling of all is that Ultimate Team, traditionally the most popular mode in FIFA, is included here, but is a complete waste of time. That means the Switch’s main single-player mode hasn’t been changed since Steven Gerrard was still a player, rather than the manager of a team who are winning nothing (disclosure: this reviewer is a Celtic supporter – here we go, 10 in a row).Ĭaptured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) The enhanced Career mode with its new training options? No chance: you're still stuck with the Xbox 360 and PS3 FIFA 17 career mode here, which itself had been lying unchanged since FIFA 15. What this obviously means is that all the major features added to the Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game over the past few years once again haven't been carried across to the Switch. And, in fact – as we previously revealed in our FIFA 18 review – the whole FIFA series on Switch has always been based on the Legacy Edition of FIFA 18 for the Xbox 360 and PS3 what this means is that for the past four years now, Switch owners have been playing practically the same Xbox 360 version of FIFA 17 with EA showing no real interest in changing things much. Of course, if you own FIFA 20 on the Switch, you’ve probably already been through this, because that game was also a Legacy Edition based on FIFA 19. If you own FIFA 20 on the Switch, FIFA 21 is practically the same game. There are no new game modes, no new features, nothing to separate this game from last year's game other than the obligatory squad and kit updates. If you're familiar with the Legacy Edition branding, you already know what to expect here: not much. So with that in mind, we have no interest whatsoever in recommending that anyone purchases FIFA 21, either. In the years that have followed, however, EA has continued to shortchange the Switch and by this point, with the second Legacy Edition in a row, it's clear as day now that it has no interest whatsoever in providing a game that offers anything remotely new or improved for Switch owners. It was complete nonsense and ever so slightly patronising, but hey, it was their first year, so we held our tongue and decided we’d give EA time to establish the series on Switch and see where it would go from there. We even smiled when the game’s producer explained in interviews that the reason the Switch version had fewer modes than the Xbox One and PS4 versions was because "The Journey" story mode was only possible with the power of the Frostbite engine (despite only being a bunch of cutscenes) and Ultimate Team would overwhelm Nintendo gamers if they were exposed to everything it had to offer right away. At first, we gave EA the benefit of the doubt and put it down to the challenges of porting a game to a less powerful system with a user base who hadn't seen a new FIFA game for half a decade. Ever since EA first brought the FIFA series to the Switch with FIFA 18, Nintendo fans have been given a lesser version of the game seen on other systems.
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