Tom Wiggins
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If you were expecting a whole new ball game you won’t find it here, but EA has begun its new era with typical flair
Like José Mourinho parking a bus, Watford sacking another manager, and Jurgen Klopp moaning about fixture congestion, no football season is complete without a new edition of FIFA.
Pep Guardiola’s sky-blue wave swept away everything in front of it for two seasons in a row, racking up records left, right and centre, but fell well short in 2019/20 and surrendered the title to Jurgen Klopp’s rampant Liverpool side.
It’s hard to feel sorry for PSG, but for a team backed by the funds of an oil-rich nation state, that’s become accustomed to winning Ligue 1 by a canter, Neymar and co do find some hilarious ways of getting dumped out of the Champions League every season.
Zidane’s Real Madrid might have won three Champions League titles in a row, but did they change the way people think about how football should be played? No.
“I always want it loud,” he said in 2013 when describing the differences between his all-action Borussia Dortmund side and Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal. “He likes having the ball, playing football, passes. It’s like an orchestra.”
When EA unveiled Hardline to the world many wondered why this cops ‘n’ robbers shooter had the Battlefield name bolted on the front.
Well, apart from its predecessor, and if you played that you’ll know what to expect here: lashings of ultraviolence; frantic, trial and deadly error gameplay and the best soundtrack this side of Los Santos. If you didn’t, the aim is simple: clear each stage of enemies using guns, knives, bats, iron bars and more before you can move on to the next one and do it all again. The difference is, everything in Wrong Number is bigger, tougher and nastier than before.
After initial concerns that it would dilute the hardcore spirit of the game too much, we unexpectedly fell head over heels with the original Forza Horizon on Xbox 360. That meant expectations were high for the sequel, particularly considering its access to the turbo-charged power of a next-gen console.
Landing in a crater of hype bigger than any imprint left by the plummeting robots of its title, Titanfall is the biggest game of the new console generation so far. But does it live up to expectations? Just about.