EA Sports has announced a number of new FIFA 22 features exclusive to the game on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S and Stadia.
In fully revealing FIFA 22’s Career Mode yesterday, EA Sports confirmed more features you won’t get on PlayStation 4, Xbox One or PC (yep, the PC version is still the last-gen version).
In Career Mode across all platforms, there are news items focused on your stats and accomplishments that trigger when certain milestone events happen (for example, when you or one of your player’s goal projection is to break a competition’s goal record and when you or they finally succeed in doing so).
But on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S and Stadia, these accomplishments aren’t just celebrated in the news. These versions of FIFA 22 also have pre-match intro sequences in which the commentator team picks up on what you have achieved.
New cinematics include new team warm up sequences, dressing room “moments”, teams inspecting the pitch as well as the groundskeeper making last minute preparations.
If your team is underperforming in an important match, you might even see the crowd leaving early, EA said.
There’s a new reveal cinematic when you get a new managerial job, and updated transfer announcement news takes place at the stadium, not just the press room.
Your Player Career journey is picked up by the commentator team with “banter” around transfer or loan moves, your debut, or when you’re solidifying your place in the starting 11.
EA Sports said it’s improved the quality of screenshots taken from the match in the news you receive when you return to the hub, “in order to make the stories more specific to your match experience.”
We’ve also got more information on Alex Scott’s commentary. It comes via the ‘Goal News from Elsewhere’ commentary in English, with Scott providing minute-by-minute updates to matches played simultaneously. “We’re using the latest technology to make sure that the transitions between the commentary team and Alex Scott sound as natural as possible,” EA Sports said, with interruptions possible.