FIFA 23 It is a football simulation video game published by Electronic Arts. It is the 30th installment in the FIFA series, and was
released worldwide on September 30, 2022 for PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Google Stadia, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.
The game will be the final game in the partnership between EA and FIFA in the football series. Future soccer games will be named by EA without
the FIFA name listed under the EA Sports FC banner.
features FIFA 23
Cross-platform play FIFA 23
FIFA 23 will feature a limited degree of cross-play. Co-play will be available in FUT Division Rivals, except for co-op, FUT Champions, FUT Ultimate Online Draft, FUT Online Friendly (excluding Co-Op), FUT Play With a friend, Online Friendlies, Online Seasons (excluding Co-op Seasons) and Virtual Bundesliga. However, cross-play will be
limited to consoles
of the same console generation. For example, those using a PlayStation 4 will be able to play with and against players on Xbox One, but not PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S and vice versa. Pro Clubs will not support cross-play.
The decision to remove Pro Clubs from joint play has received criticism from the FIFA player community.
Hypermotion 2 and technical dribbling FIFA 23
The game will feature what’s called HyperMotion2
, a match capture system with
machine learning from real-life football matches to create over 6,000 in-game animations. Technical dribbling uses the so-called Active Touch system to improve the footballer’s trajectory to the ball and improve the player’s turning and dribbling with more responsiveness. Both systems are exclusive to current generation versions (i.e. PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Stadia and PC).
World cup match patterns
FIFA 23 will feature both men’s and women’s World Cup game modes, with the 2022 World Cup and 2023 Women’s World Cup.
New icons and removed icons
FIFA 23 will include three new ICONs in the ICON collection with the addition of Gerd Müller, Xabi Alonso and Garzinho. With a new addition to these 3, 8 of the previously added icons are missing from the list of icons released by EA Sports. Diego Maradona, Iker Casillas, Cafu, Ryan Giggs, Pep Guardiola, Deco, Marc Overmars and Filippo Inzaghi have been
removed from FIFA 23 ICONS. Jay-Jay Okocha and Hidetoshi
Nakata have been removed from FIFA 23 ICONS, but they now appear as heroes.
New Heroes
FIFA 23, in an exclusive deal with Marvel, will bring 21 new champions to the existing roster of champions from FIFA 22 with the addition of: Lucio, Jean-Pierre Papin, Rudy Fuller, Diego Forlan, Rafael Marquez, Javier Mascherano, Ricardo Carvalho, Thomas Brolin, Harry Kell, Yaya Toure, Claudio Marchisio, Landon Donovan, Juan Capdevila, Sidney Govo, Dirk Kuyt, Park Ji-sung, Fludzimiserz Smolarek, Saeed Al-Owairan and Peter Crouch.
Women’s football club
This will be the first in the FIFA series of games to introduce women’s club football. The FA Women’s Premier League and Ligue
1 Women will be included at launch, with more women’s football leagues planned to be added at a later date. This comes alongside Sam Kerr, who plays for Chelsea Women’s Club, becoming the first female footballer to appear on the global cover of the game.
licenses
FIFA 23 contains more than 30 leagues, more than 100 licensed stadiums, more than 700 clubs and more than 19,000 players. Roma, Atalanta and Lazio are not
, Bergamo Calcio, and Latium respectively. The game also no longer features J.League teams, with EA Sports and the Japan Professional Soccer League announcing the end of their six-year partnership. Juventus, having been absent from the past three
The game features the fictional club AFC Richmond and their home stadium, Nelson Road, from the Apple TV+ series, Ted Lasso.
including Philips Stadion
, home of FC Eindhoven, Europa-Park Stadion, home of FC Freiburg,
Bank of California Stadium, home of Los Angeles FC, Academy Stadium, home of Manchester City Women. Juventus Stadium, the home of Juventus, has also
due to licensing issues. Nottingham Forest’s home stadium
