


This gives you a great deal of scope to train your players in unique and quirky football styles and to invent new exciting moves that are not constrained by the rules of the field game and the control of the referee. Skill in individual players is highly valued rather than the emphasis on team play as seen in the full versions of the game. You can also opt to play according to the official rules of Futsal in this mode (futsal is a five-a-side indoor soccer game that is fun, fast and exciting to watch).īecause there are so few players per side, there is more scope for individuality to shine, so you can customise your character according to gender, dressing them in your choice of clothing, hats and shoes – you can even give them the tattoos you wish you had in real life! As might be surmised, there is no way that eleven people per side can play in this mode, so you can choose between three-a-side, four-a-side or even five-a-side. VOLTA is a nod to the previous FIFA Street series, and takes place in unusual locales, such as streets.

This means ‘return’ in Portuguese, and perhaps refers to a return to childhood, when you played on the street or near your home with however many mates could be mustered up and co-opted into your team. The big news for this release is the reveal of VOLTA Mode.

This makes for more equal play, as previously they seemed to be something like super athletes, never slipping up and rarely letting a player or a ball get past them. The AI defence has been made more realistic, which means that they occasionally make human-like mistakes. Improvements to movement capture and coding and controls makes the play ever more precise, and ball control is a positive delight as you can use a lot of finesse to manoeuvre the ball to exactly where you want to put it. You can manage your team, starting your players from scratch, or using real life players whose ball skills have been ably translated to the screen. This game is, as might be expected from the popular and successful franchise, the usual offering of real life teams and stadia, accurately rendered, with crisp beautiful graphics, and exciting playbooks to work through.
