FIFA 24 is dead, long live EA Sports FC 24 – preview

I never thought I’d be impressed by arms in a video game, but here we are. Realistically, EA Sports FC 24 was always going to be the same sort of iterative step as if it was called FIFA 24, building on and balancing the showpiece features of its predecessor while tentatively introducing its own. But it’s amazing the tricks on your brain that flipping the orientation of a menu can play. With a glitzy, black, vertical UI, the slickly-branded EA Sports FC feels genuinely new, on and off the pitch, with plenty of exciting, nerdy additions to set the pulse pounding. From kick off, the first things you notice in EA Sports FC 24 are the tiny details. Much was made of the Hypermotion tech powering natural-looking animations, but here “Hypermotion V” delivers a lot of really perceptible, organic motions in the arms, hands, and bodies of players. Read more