Although it's the last game of an era,FIFA 23 Coins marks another year of meticulously removing itself from EA and EA, as a variety of strategic and aesthetic changes are incorporated into its solid gameplay plan. But it's also an entry that feels both propped up and sucked up by its Ragnarok status, reluctantly taking down a ruby-red curtain as the football genre becomes a blur of chaos.

Theatrical enhancements to gameplay, such as the powerful Power Shots, will ensure that the FIFA name is released with a bang and not whisper. Holding the bumpers in your hands and pressing shoot turns your striker into an enraged raider with an interuptable attack, the camera pulling focus while they leather the ball and sends shockwaves from bootstraps blasting through the PS5's control speaker. If you've gotten the right angle, FIFA 23's newly improved goalkeepers who are acrobatic might be able to stop it with their individually simulated fingers, they have even saved me bacon a few occasions.

Get it right, though when the forward has enough space the shot is likely to end up at the back of the net no matter how far you are. The meta-shaking shot teases out the halcyon days that Francesco Totti hit-and-hope long shots used in early 2010s FIFA But don't fret that online multiplayer is rid of speedy wingers who can pass through the box at the break. Why not try to be fun and enjoy yourself with it, don't you think?

While it can't escape the series' perennial problem of relying too heavily on speedy players, FIFA 23 does reward careful execution across the board. My fingers hurt when pulling the triggers to jockey dangerous counter-attacks. The force of a ball's passing has to be fine-tuned, which is difficult to master but is satisfying when you place an ideal through ball.

A rash tackle can also expose you to danger when you hold down the associated buttons for too long could create a risky strenuous, squeezing commitment that will pay off but, usually, it leads to the possibility of a niggling penalty. The tackling of the final man back into a risky but inherently thrilling adventure.

These changes change the game's pace, making FIFA 23 a slower game as compared to FIFA 22. However, the tradeoff is that matches are always memorable. There's a lot of drama in every half, often multiple goals per match across single-player and onlinegames, and the game has a few 0-0 draws. In keeping with the spectacle, any goal worth its weight will lead to a triumph lap slow-motion replays with overlays of statistics and FUT 23 Coins guarantees that hard drives and social feeds around the world will be full of viral goal clips by year's end.