Kick off a new draft mode and youFor those that dont have the patience, willpower or desire to dedicate themselves to an entire season of Ultimate Team building, the new draft mode might provide fresh incentive to become interested.

Giving you a taste of the games most iconic players Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez, Hazard et al without asking you to put the volume of time in usually required to acquire them.

The whole idea revolves ar will be presented a selection of players for each position. Up front you might have the choice between Ibrahimovic, Rooney and Aguero, at left back it might be Alaba, Baines or Marcelo. Genuinely, no matter which of the options you pick youre going to be at the helm of a dream team.

Once your first 11 and a set of substitutes have been selected youre ready to play.

This really is only a taster of what its like to command such a team, however, with draft mode sessions lasting a maximum of four games. Lose a game before the four game run is over and youre out. Draft a new team and start again.

One of the most welcome components of draft mode is the option to play cooperatively with a friend, allowing you to share in the fantasy football-esque excitement of picking a team before taking on all comers and their own fantasy teams; whether they be AI or humans online.

If you think that theres simply never been enough opportunity for celebration and self-congratulation when it comes to showing off the stunning Ultimate Team youve forged, then youre not alone any kind of pomp and pageantry has been sadly absent from previous releases.

In an attempt to fix that this years FIFA will display any special and/or rare players in your team prior to kick off, making sure that your opponent sees exactly who theyre up against. Hopefully, then, well feel that bit more respected and noticed by our foe when we take to the field with our Team of the Week edition of Alexis Sanchez or our Javier Zanetti Legend card.

12 national teams from the womens game are included here, all of them officially licensed. In addition, over 100 facial scans have been taken from some of the most famous players in the world many of which took centre stage this summer as participants in the FIFA Womens World Cup.

Female players are assigned their own ratings separately from the men, so dont think you can go directly comparing the likes of Marta, Carli Lloyd or Celia Sasic to Raheem Sterling and company.

Pre-season friendly tournaments are now available to participate in, allowing you to travel through Asia, South America, North America or Europe prior to the start of the season proper.

Winning these tournaments lines your next transfer budget with extra cash, so its well worth putting the required effort in. The stature of your team dictates the prestige of tournament and opposition youll be invited to play against. If youre Man Utd then you can expect to go up against Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Juventus.

Playing as Plymouth? Dont expect anything so glamorous. Wycombe, perhaps?

Tenuously linked to a previous point regarding Ultimate Team overlays, new commentary is included that is unique to the mode and designed to further enhance the idea that youre playing with real, important players.
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Whole storylines are promised for certain stars, told throughout the commentary of matches that theyre a part of. If the commentary duo of Alan Smith and Martin Tyler can string together a yarn about a specific goalkeeper or a promising youngster, and keep that yarn going for five or six matches (at least), then well be impressed.

Decide that you want Thiago Silva to be a forward and then spend the rest of your sIn what seems to have taken forever to include, were finally getting the option to train our squad players and (hopefully) improve their value to the team. By completing mini-games you can enhance certain attributes of your chosen player in line with their base statistics. You cant, for example,eason building up the correct attributes to achieve such a thing.

You can, though, improve Silvas defending skills. However, the improvement will be felt most by the games flock of young up-and-coming stars as theyre the ones with the potential to grow. Silva might be able to be improved in a minor way, but an 18 year-old protge under his tutorage will benefit much more from time on the training pitch.

Clearly, the idea is to give you the option of building a team through youth development rather than relying solely on cash.

Celebrating goals can now be performed with individuals not on the pitch. Run over to the subs bench after a goal and youll celebrate with squad players not included in the first 11. Alternatively, sprint towards a cameraman and the perspective will change so that you see your player through the eyes of that camera - allowing you to get a first hand look at his/her lips as they kiss the lens in true Steven Gerrard fashion.

Its a small change, thats for sure, but its the kind of window dressing that allows you to more easily suspend your disbelief and get involved in the showmanship of what is the worlds centrepiece sport.