Fut Loose

Beneath the fireworks and confetti, FIFA 20’s lacking match fitness.

- Phil Iwaniuk

Imagine having lived a life in which you’ve only ever seen football played through the prism of FIFA, then happening to catch Match of the Day on telly one fateful Saturday night. What is this? Goals scored from situations besides counterattacks? Successful long balls? Players pressing in the opposition half? It’d be like eavesdropping on a broadcast from some mad alien world. And it would really suck the fun out of your next game of FIFA.

The problem isn’t that FIFA 20, like so many of its predecessors, doesn’t play very much like a real game of football. That’s a necessary evil of cramming 90 minutes of the real game into a digestible ten minutes you can control with a gamepad. The problem is that FIFA 20’s quasi-football simply isn’t very enjoyable.