Throughout at this time’s official reveal livestream, EA Sports activities revealed EA Sports activities FC 24, the alternative for its overwhelmingly in style FIFA franchise. The transfer away from the FIFA license was introduced final 12 months, and at this time, we received our first have a look at this 12 months’s EA Sports activities soccer title.
The massive pitch this 12 months from EA Sports activities is round its superior expertise. EA’s proprietary Frostbite engine returns, however with enhancements, together with the brand new Sapien character mannequin skeletons first launched by way of our Madden NFL 24 protection final month. The skeleton ensures that gamers look extra true to life when standing nonetheless but in addition in movement, making for extra real looking motion that impacts each the sport’s visuals and gameplay. This 12 months’s implementation of Frostbite additionally contains new GPU fabric expertise, which is supposed to make sure that gamers’ kits transfer like real-world supplies in response to participant motion. You may as well count on a greater matchday expertise, with new animations and scenes that includes the motion occurring across the pitch, not simply on it.
The massive new expertise with this entry is HyperMotionV. This tech purports to translate the rhythm and fluidity of real-world soccer into EA Sports activities FC 24. Utilizing this expertise, a real-world participant can pull off a brand new transfer that is not within the sport, then, inside days, HyperMotionV can leverage volumetric seize to construct exact animations round that new transfer and have it within the sport sooner than ever. It sounds spectacular, so it is sensible when EA Sports activities says the HyperMotionV expertise is just current within the PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X/S, and PC variations of EA Sports activities FC 24.
Lastly, a brand new system generally known as PlayStyles is included on this 12 months’s sport. Utilizing Opta optimization, PlayStyles goes past the collection’ in-game rankings to carry athletes to life in new methods. Every PlayStyle offers stars and different gamers distinctive talents in service of making a extra genuine expertise on the pitch.
EA Sports activities additionally introduced new leagues coming to the sport, together with Liga F and Frauen-Bundesliga, which is able to be a part of current leagues like Laliga, Bundesliga, Serie A, and Conmebol Libertadores. The corporate additionally introduced an unique renewal with UEFA, making EA Sports activities FC 24 the one place you possibly can play UEFA Champions League, UEFA Girls’s Champions League, UEFA Europea League, UEFA Europa Convention League, and UEFA Tremendous Cup. Lastly, we realized that the FC collection secured a long-term renewal with the Premier League.
EA Sports activities additionally revealed Manchester Metropolis star Erling Haaland as its cowl star for this 12 months’s entry. EA Sports activities FC 24 launches on September 29 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Swap, and PC. Those that purchase the Final Version will obtain early entry beginning on September 22.