As a self-respecting soccer game lover and as an adult, I have played FIFA since its first edition, back in 1993 with FIFA International Soccer, and that is why I am so horrified by what EA Sports has done with FIFA 16, completely destroying one of the most successful video game sagas of all time. Or at least he has done so in the iOS version with his FIFA 16 Ultimate Team. A horrible interface, incomprehensible menus and a unique gameplay that make you forget the excellent graphics and the good gameplay (to Caesar what is Caesar's) that this game has.
It was already a bad sign to see in the App Store that the game was completely free. Hoping that, as in previous versions, in-app purchases would allow you to unlock more game modes, I set out to download it, but nothing like that. You are going to have to play the Ultimate Team mode, and forget what the description of that game mode says: "Create and play with the team of your dreams." They will give you a handful of players from all over the world completely unknown for you to build a team with great difficulty. You will find that you do not have a right back, or that it is impossible to play with a 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 formation because the players have locations that do not fit in with conventional formations.
But once we managed to form our team with great difficulty and we played a few games, we saw how we got several packs with players that help us to compose a more competitive team with some more well-known players. Don't kid yourself, it's just a candy that EA offers you so that you continue playing because after those initial packs, getting a new player is practically impossible. As it is almost impossible to navigate through the game menus to transfer a player, for example. It's hard to think of menus that are more convoluted and unintuitive than those in FIFA 16, to the point where you end up leaving the game simply after twenty minutes wandering through the menus without getting what you want.
A real shame because the game itself is not bad at all, and it would not have cost them anything to have added a purchase of € 4 or € 5 that would allow you to unlock the quick game and season mode to be able to play with your favorite teams, as it should be. When one plays with FIFA 16 the only thing that comes to mind is "Why doesn't anyone make PC Soccer for iOS?".
Our assessment
I miss the online match mode, in addition to everything you have already mentioned, to which I add. I continue with 14.
Agree with you. Actually, games as FIFA FOR IOS is thought are a buy-and-buy strategy where you never have a complete game like on pc. That last team is boring.
Fifa is bad with all the desire, even when you do not have the latest version, you cannot continue playing as it happens with my fifa14 for ios de ultimte team or you do not have the matches of the day. That option doesn't work anymore, you can't train, you can't play championships with national teams, and you also don't realize who was the top scorer in this or that league. It is definitely a recycling of a fifa
The game itself is not bad, remember that it is Fifa Ultimate Team, no one is fooled, now EA is about to exploit this mode that is the one that gives you money. The problem is that it is designed to have to buy yes or yes. For example, per game they give you less than 100 coins, and an envelope with 6 gold players is worth 10.000 ...
Bad gold players come out of these packs. Since if you want one with an average of more than 85, you have to buy the special envelope that a "good" player gives you and that is worth 5.000 FIFA coins (€ 50 hey!)
Apart from that, the exchange market, which is the ultimate hooker (sell and buy, speculate ...) is capped, so that if you put a player with an average of 80, the minimum price that he lets put is 10.000. Therefore, nobody is ever going to buy in that transfer market.
If they let you put the price you want on transfers and the market itself stabilized prices on demand, people would form better teams, as they do on PCs and consoles.