GAMEPLAY

Create more scoring opportunities than ever before with all-new dynamic attacking systems in the most intelligent FIFA gameplay to date.

FIFA 21 raises players’ intelligence and decision-making to new levels both on and off the ball, creating more realistic and informed movement, building on the intensity of 1v1 situations, and unlocking the conditions for a true-to-life footballing experience that rewards you for your creativity and control all over the pitch.

Agile Dribbling - In football, 1v1 situations can open up goal-scoring opportunities that determine the course of a match. In FIFA 21, the new Agile Dribbling system puts more tools at your disposal when you come up against a defender. Fast footwork gives you greater control and responsiveness to let you retain the ball and create space in one-on-one situations, and new skill moves like the bridge dribble and ball roll fake turn also provide you with the means to explode past defenders.

Positioning Personality - Being in the right place at the right time to receive the ball, step in for a crucial interception, or make a goal-saving tackle differentiates the world’s best players from the rest. In FIFA 21, Positioning Personality elevates footballers’ in-game intelligence to match their real world understanding of space and time, allowing top players to anticipate the play, move more intelligently across the pitch, and take up more advantageous positions. World-class forwards will hold their runs to stay level with the last defender to stay onside before bursting into the best position to take a shot, playmakers will hunt for space to operate between the lines, while the best defenders will close down passing lanes more effectively to make it harder for the opposition to create opportunities.

Creative Runs - New options for influencing your team’s movement off the ball revolutionise attacking build up play in FIFA 21, giving you more ways to break down the defence:

• Directed Runs - Take full control over the direction of the runs your teammates make by flicking the right stick after triggering a run.
• Directed Pass and Go - Decide where your teammate makes their run after a pass by immediately flicking the right stick in the desired direction.
• Player Lock - Press in both sticks to lock to your current player when in attack. For more control, flick the right stick to switch away from a locked player and control your teammate’s movement before calling for a return pass.

Natural Collision System - A re-imagined player collision and movement system unlocked by brand new animation systems create smoother player interactions all over the pitch. In FIFA 21, key footballing moments including goalmouth scrambles, battles for possession in the midfield, and attacking duels will resolve more seamlessly than ever before, resulting in more natural encounters between players as they strive to reach the ball.

Competitor Mode - Replicating the play style of the best FIFA players in the world, the Competitor Mode setting gives your opposition a better grasp of skill moves, dribbling types, and tactics to give you a more challenging and rewarding opponent to match up with on Legendary and Ultimate difficulty.

Fundamentals of Football - Informed by feedback from the community, revisions to the fundamentals of football in FIFA raise the game throughout the pitch:

• Passing - A more perceptive understanding of space and opposition positioning allows players to play a more intelligent passing game.
• Blocking - A new blocking system in FIFA 21 creates more balanced outcomes when defenders block shots and crosses.
• Responsiveness - Faster reaction times unlock more responsive players, enabling them to better escape from tight situations when under pressure from opponents.
• Manual Headers - Take full control over headed shots and passes with manual headers that send the ball exactly where you aim.

CAREER MODE

Manage Every Moment in FIFA 21 Career Mode with new innovations that create additional depth in matches, transfers, and training to give you more control over your team’s rise to the top and make it easier than ever for you to begin your managerial career.

Interactive Match Sim - Experience a whole new way to play out your season with the Interactive Match Sim, a huge leap in gameplay interactivity that gives you control over the outcome of every game. Jump in and out of matches at any point during the 90 minutes to influence the course of the action, or take charge of key moments including penalties and free kicks thanks to new contextual prompts that let you change the outcome of the match. Enhanced match data also enables you to manage the game with precision, giving you the ability to make changes directly from the sim based on the match stats and your players’ performance levels and stamina.

Player Development - Manage your players’ development in greater detail with a revamped growth system. Turn right backs into right wingers, defensive midfielders into centre backs, and more to fill gaps in your team, and monitor player attribute changes during training to see how your squad is progressing.

Active Training and Match Sharpness - Get more insight into your squad’s performance levels with match sharpness, a new attribute that indicates how likely your players are to perform in the most crucial moments during the course of a game. Increase your players’ sharpness with a new Active Training System that gives you the ability to set up group training sessions to improve the likelihood of your strikers putting big chances away or of defenders making key tackles.

Weekly Schedule Planning - Plan your team’s training schedule with a new activity management system. Decide when to train and when to rest during the week as you balance your players’ sharpness with morale and fitness to make the difference between winning and losing.

Player Feedback System - A new system gives you a visual indication of your players’ readiness for the upcoming game, enabling you to see your players’ morale, sharpness, and fitness at a glance. See which players are in top condition and ready for action, who could use more time on the training ground or a break to recover some fitness, as well as the effect of playing a player out of position on their in-game stats as you choose the best eleven for each match you play.

Enhanced Opposition AI - Enhanced opposition AI sees opponents approach games with more intelligence in both defence and attack. New systems create more informed AI decision-making in marking, tackling, passing and dribbling to present you with more challenges during each match and keep your Career fresh from game to game.

New Transfer Options - Enhanced transfer realism provides both human and AI-controlled teams with new ways to sign players. Make Loan to Buy offers with optional or mandatory future transfer fees to secure new talent for your team, and respond to AI manager-initiated player swap proposals as you look to master the transfer market.

New Set-Up Options - Customise your Career Mode with new initial set-up options. Get a more true-to-life experience of negotiating signings on the transfer market with Authentic Transfers, or boost your team’s starting budget to help you build your squad with Financial Takeover.

Expanded League Themes - Enjoy deeper immersion and authenticity with expanded custom league-specific themes for some of the world’s most prestigious and most played competitions that now span more areas of Career Mode - including the UEFA Champions League and CONMEBOL Libertadores.

EA SPORTS VOLTA FOOTBALL

More ways to play. More customisation. More locations. Experience the soul of the streets together with friends as you show off your style in cages and courts around the world throughout various forms of small-sided football.

VOLTA SQUADS: Experience a more social street football with VOLTA SQUADS, a new way to join together with up to three friends or drop into the community with other VOLTA FOOTBALL players and win as one in 5v5 online cooperative play. Connect with friends through a reimagined VOLTA hub that brings your squad and uniquely customised avatars to the centre of the action before taking to the pitch to challenge your opponents, climb the ranks, and collect rewards through weekly events.

Gameplay: New VOLTA FOOTBALL gameplay additions make for a more realistic and rewarding small-sided football experience, with a new game pacing and intelligent squad movement creating more opportunities to let you play to the rhythm of the streets. Energised skill moves and Agile Dribbling raise the excitement of going up against a defender to add to the number of ways you can go past - or even through - opposition players, while defensive counters like a new blocking system ensure 1-on-1 situations are more rewarding on both sides of the ball.

Customisation: Bring football and fashion together as you customise and personalise your male or female VOLTA AVATAR with a vast array of new apparel from adidas, professional football clubs, street football teams, and celebrity-designed collections.

FEATURED BATTLES: Recruit the biggest names from the world of football and beyond to your VOLTA SQUAD in the all-new FEATURED BATTLES mode. Match up against AI-controlled star players as well as squads from the VOLTA FOOTBALL community as you compete for points and rewards in FEATURED BATTLES.

Locations: In VOLTA FOOTBALL, over 20 unique pitches across six continents come to life with truly unique atmospheres that give you a taste of each location’s authentic street football culture. Step into the party atmosphere of Sao Paulo’s Downtown, bring out the flair on the concrete of a Milan street pitch, or show off inside a stunning high-tech Dubai geodesic dome as you flaunt your skills in five brand new footballing playgrounds.

Match Types: Play it your way. Enjoy various forms of small-sided football including 3v3 Rush (No GKs), 4v4, 4v4 Rush, 5v5 and Professional Futsal, and play matches on various pitch sizes with or without walls.

Additional Modes:

• THE DEBUT: Discover the world of street football in THE DEBUT. Choose your path through a narrative-based introduction to VOLTA FOOTBALL that features some of the biggest names in the game.
• VOLTA KICK-OFF: Face off with your favourite professional teams in any of VOLTA FOOTBALL’s locations and play various forms of small-sided football both with and without goalkeepers.

More details to be announced later this year.

FIFA ULTIMATE TEAM

Enjoy brand new ways to play the most popular mode in FIFA as you build your dream squad of players past and present in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team.

FUT Co-Op - Win as One in FIFA 21 Ultimate Team with FUT Co-Op, a new way to team up with friends online and compete for rewards. Join forces in both Division Rivals and Squad Battles to earn weekly progress, and work towards brand new Co-Op Objectives that reward playing together beyond winning on the pitch.

Expanded Club Customisation - Make your FUT Club truly unique with a range of new and expanded ways to customise your team’s look both on the pitch and in the stands.

One FUT Club - If you upgrade to the next generation consoles using Dual Entitlement you can take your FUT Club from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5 or Xbox One to Xbox Series X and back again with cross-gen transfer markets and leaderboards in FUT 21. Discless consoles require digital purchase of entitlement to upgrade. Conditions and restrictions apply. See https://www.ea.com/games/fifa/fifa-21/news/dual-entitlement-terms-and-conditions for details.

Full features to be announced in August 2020.

UNRIVALED AUTHENTICITY

Play with unrivaled authenticity in FIFA 21 with over 17,000 players and 700+ teams alongside more than 90 stadiums and 30+ leagues that give you the most true-to-life experience of The World’s Game. FIFA 21 is the only place you can experience exclusive access to the world’s biggest competitions including the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, CONMEBOL Libertadores, CONMEBOL Sudamericana, Premier League, Bundesliga, and LaLiga Santander.

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

Publisher: Electronic Arts Inc.

Developer: EA Vancouver & EA Romania

Street Date: October 9, 2020

Rating: Rating Pending

No of Online Players: 1-22

No of Offline Players: 1-4