FIFA 15 News Post

FIFA 15 Demo Available Now on Xbox One, 360, PC, PS3, PS4

08:10 PM - September 8, 2014 by Panicshade

The FIFA 15 demo is now available on Xbox One (queue it up here) and weighs in at 3.07GB total. The playable teams in this year's demo include:

Borussia Dortmund
Napoli
PSG (Paris Saint Germain)
FC Barcelona
Boca Juniors
Chelsea
Manchester City
Liverpool

If a PS4 version of the demo happens, it will most likely be up sometime tomorrow afternoon. Be sure to leave your impressions here on what you play!

UPDATE: The FIFA 15 demo is available now for Xbox 360. Click here to queue it up.

UPDATE #2: The FIFA 15 demo is available now for PC. (Another link here)

UPDATE #3: The FIFA 15 demo is available now for PS3.

UPDATE #4: The FIFA 15 demo is available now for PS4.

UPDATE: The demo launches on September 9/10 for Xbox One (already available for Xbox One in North America), PlayStation 4, PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 (Gold Members; Silver Members from September 16). Dates and timing vary depending on platform and location.

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# 261 Ermolli @ 09/10/14 07:32 PM

I've played like almost ten games, half against my brother and the other half against the CPU so here are my thoughts so far:

Overall I like the graphics but I don't think it's close to NBA 2K14 which imo are the standard in sports gaming (until 2K15 comes out). The stadiums, atmosphere and ball are fantastic; faces are well scanned but I feel they like detail (by this I mean the textures) giving them a plastic look which sometimes lighting make them look worse; I don't like the body models, basically they are all the same and players look like they're rugbiers with their huge shoulders and upper body; boots and ball look nice; kits are ok but when it stretches logos, numbers and names stretch which is awful and irrealistic which it's a issue they've had since I remember.

The audio is great as always, the crowd is breathtaking and totally immersive, commentary is good as always although it can improve, can't remember if by playing against Barcelona or Napoli their fans screamed gol like they do instead of how English do which ruins the immersion to me.

Presentation is phenomenal, an improvement from their previous next-gen game which was already a step up from previous iterations; the EPL package is really well done and the generic one is also good, the new camera cuts during game breaks like goals or fouls are a nice touch; celebrations are too fake like they've been for some time which ruins the feel of the game, during a goal somehow the user celebration was cut and showed a normal one with a TV cut which makes me wonder why can't they go more often to those.

Gameplay is ... I don't know, having mixed feelings with it.
On one hand dribbling is tighter; player momentum is better than before; I appreciate the inclusions of set pieces during corners, the ability to choose who to pass the ball to and the team options in management and approach during games.

Having that said, there are still issues that have been bothering me for years and still are there and new ones with this game.
CPU defense is terrible and frustrating as last year or even more than before, defenders seem to avoid attackers, sidebacks stay in their position even if there's an opponent close to them going to the box leaving his completely alone to score, midfielders don't cover passing lanes and are too wide in the field leaving the center for the rivals to go through there without much opposition, centerbacks leave their mark too often and don't cover the goal as much as I'd like leaving the keeper as the only one available to avoid a goal.
About goalkeepers, they are so much worse than before, they're close to (or even) PES keepers bad. They take bad angles, don't cover the first post, deflect shots backwards into goals, clear the ball with their feet or head giving it to the other team even when they're in their area not even close to going outside of it, in a few games of the demo they've made more silly mistakes than an entire year of me playing FIFA 14.
Even though I've seen a slight increase in fouls they're still too few, I've been foul repeatedly with sliding tackles, standing tackles and obvious pushes and they weren't called; besides several fouls from behind which should've been red were yellow.
Also CPU teams seem to never miss a pass even when they're heavily marked, well contained or going against momentum; it's annoying and not realistic. Besides (something that I've felt with every FIFA I remember) every team plays the same (or very very very similar to each other), one would've thought that with so many team management options and so many editors to the game's database this would be a thing of the past but no, still the same.

Summing up it isn't as big improvement as I wished or thought but it's better as a whole, gameplay is very slightly better than FIFA 14 next-gen but it has the same problems that made me rage so many times; having that said I'll play FIFA 15 retail because my brother was going to buy it anyways and I hope there will be great sliders to find the game more enjoyable.

# 262 grushcow @ 09/10/14 07:32 PM

I don't get everyone being up in arms about FIFA not being "representative of true soccer". It's never really been a sim game, it's more a combination of arcade and realism, which what I think I like about the game even though I usually want the most truly realistic experience. PES looks great for the realism fans (pending file sharing being in next gen), but I don't see at what point FIFA has lead anyone to believe that the game's a true sim.

Personally I've loved the demo so far, made tons of fixes to what made this game so frustrating. Far greater variation in scoring which really held the game back in the past, the ball physics are great and allow for realistic deflections unlike in past games. The tighter dribbling allows for more variation too and not just the general identical challenge it felt like always happen in FIFA 14. Players feel like they're the appropriate weight, you have to take into account momentum and acceleration now and it plays a much bigger role. Can actually deke around goalies and most importantly the stupid chip lob isn't how every breakaway happens, from my experience it's actually pretty unhelpful except in rarer instances, the way it should be. If PES has share files I'll have a tough decision, but FIFA has done a lot of good with this game and it's going to have a lot of re-playability.

# 263 RandyBass @ 09/10/14 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by sars973


	Downloaded and played 4 games with my fake UK Account. When I got my PS4 recently and played NBA 2k14 for the first time, I was blown away. Now that I have played this, I don't think blown away even begins to cover it! There are still some issues with the physics/player interactions and defense AI, but overall this is perhaps the best sports game created so far. The level of detail is amazing; it's almost scary how real some players look. CAN'T WAIT til the 23rd!!

So there are shills for demos now... Hmm.

# 264 mac_rmm @ 09/10/14 07:41 PM

Just gone done playing about five games of PS3 demo. I was Barcelona playing on World Class against Boca Juniors. Impressions...

- Boy, Boca Juniors have some talented players. Their defenders are among the best tacklers I have ever seen. It seems like they just know where the ball is at all times and can magically get it off the offense when they want to.

- Boca also has some very talented dribblers. Up and down their lineup, I saw players stopping on a dime, turning with the ball around my defender, and then continuing toward the goal. Amazing piece of skill.

- Barcelona was unimpressive. Messi was small, really wasn't much faster than the Boca players if at all, and had the ball stolen many times right before he tried to get a shot off. His close control of the ball leaves a lot to be desired.

- Neymar just isn't very talented. No pace compared to the Boca RB, who caught up to him with ease several times when Neymar actually got past him. Very poor close control as well - had ball taken away from him virtually anytime a defender came within a yard of him.

- The Barcelona defenders stayed with the Boca attackers at times, but they also were dribble around at many times with ease. When trying to track and contain the Boca players, the Barcelona players stayed off a good distance, probably due to fear of getting embarassed by the dribbling of the Boca players.

- I played five games and scored zero goals with Barcelona. Boca scored about 10, including 3 when down to 10 men.

- Xavi and Iniesta are highly overrated passers in real-life as they passed several times away from the obvious wide open player to a player that was behind them or covered well. They also passed several times to a Boca player with no Barcelona player around them.

- I never realized how good Boca was in real life. I don't much about them but I am going to do some research as they look like sure Champions League contenders if they can ever qualify. Barcelona on the other hand looks like potential relegation fodder.

# 265 kashik @ 09/10/14 07:57 PM

It's nice reading the impressions about the demo... but as we all know, you don't really discover all the flaws until after the first or second season in. If some people are already reporting similar flaws as were in Fifa 14, I'll be pretty choked. You would hope that the ones that are easy to see/experience are the ones that are addressed first. Realism in a sports game is hard to get, but little flaws that have been around for years deserve all the criticism they get. If all EA has done is slap another coat of paint on it, then I'll be waiting for the PES demo to make my decision this year.

# 266 ncaafootball14markus @ 09/10/14 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Turbojugend


	Och, d'yer wanna make summit ye gadge?

LOL wha?!? I'm not understanding what you're asking me bruh...

# 267 sars973 @ 09/10/14 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by RandyBass


	So there are shills for demos now... Hmm.

Not sure what you mean here.

I apologize for liking the game?

# 268 Turbojugend @ 09/10/14 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by ncaafootball14markus


	LOL wha?!? I'm not understanding what you're asking me bruh...

Sorry, it was my worst English impression. Keep in mind everything I learned about English accents came from Monty Python.

# 269 aholbert32 @ 09/10/14 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by therizing02


	Love that the fouls are finally making an appearance in FIFA. I agree with the the USER defending. It's as bad as I've seen it. However, switch to Legacy Defending and use the second defender press button. It helps a lot.

Yep. 2nd defender button helps with that.

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# 270 woody2goody @ 09/10/14 08:15 PM

Liking it so far. The complaints about defending aren't warranted at all. If you can defend properly without using the contain button then you won't have any problems. I've conceded 1 goal in 4 games and it was an own goal.

The keepers seem very good so far but that should help with the excitement in longer matches.

# 271 jb1 @ 09/10/14 08:15 PM

Playing the demo on PS4 and have to say I really enjoyed it. Is this game 100% realistic? Of course not, in many ways it doesn't represent what I see on a Saturday afternoon but no doubt FIFA this year is shaping up to be an excellent video game (and I think sometimes people lose sight of the fact it's a video game).

Firstly I love the presentation, it's an area I have always felt was lacking (and to a degree still is) but from the Premier League intros with Martin Tyler reading out the line-ups or having them scroll across the bottom of the screen to the crowd getting excited pre game FIFA does a great job of setting the scene for the game ahead. One thing I would like to see here is Alan Smith getting more involved and maybe adding some insight into the team selection/formation and what he thinks we might see from the game but nonetheless it's very impressive as it is. One negative for me is i'm a little concerned how many World Cup stories we'll here, it's good the game is upto date in that area (unlike say NHL) but I don't need to hear about Aguero's World Cup every time he is on the pitch and certainly not twice in the same game.

Ultimately the most important aspect of the game is the gameplay and whilst it still feels similar in many ways to previous versions there are many factors I really like, firstly i'm seeing more fouls than I have before including two I really liked. I jumped late for an aerial ball with the keeper and caught him resulting in a yellow card and the other was getting a penalty from a corner when the centre half charged into me stopping me getting a clean header on goal. There are more routine collisions than I have seen before that rightly result in free kicks and I love that I'm seeing more diving tackles aimed at me as well. There are still issues here though, something that bugged me on previous versions was not being awarded penalties in some obvious situations and with Messi I got sent flying in the box as I tricked my way into the area but there was not only no penalty but no mention from the commentators that it could have been. Incidentally it did at least look fantastic.

I like the ball physics, you can really feel the weight of the ball when dribbling, passing and shooting. Passing % is still way to high, Boca had 98% pass success on me at half time in one game. Sliders will help but still, that is excessive. Speaking of the opposition I still want to see a better quality build up play from them, too much dribbling for my liking and too many occasions where they will turn down a decent shooting poition to keep dribbling wide.

Another thing that caught my eye was Henderson getting caught under the ball on one header midway inside the opposition half and instead of what should have been an easy header he knocked it backwards resulting in a dangerous counter attack, it looked great.

Shooting and goal variety has always been my biggest problem with FIFA over the years and I'm pleased to see a real improvement here. I think a big factor in this is the new keepers, now they aren't perfect but they desperately needed to be improved and I think they have been. Whilst sometimes it can look awkward I love them standing upright as I smash or place the ball past them. As long as it's only on shots they have no business saving then it's fine. I did have one rebound that Hart should have saved (or at least attempted to) but he simply stood there, that needs to be fixed and I'm sure it will be. In the past I've felt like keepers made too many saves and there wasn't enough variation in shots but I'm pleased to see that improved. Even saw three nice deflections end up in goals (possibly too many) although Alan Smith didn't seem to realise the shots were heavily deflected. Did also see one occasion of a goal I scored not being counted as a shot on target which was odd.

Defending is interesting, I must say i've not had too many issues but the odd wandering defender needs to be fixed although I don't mind it rarely as we can see some awful defending most weekends in real games. I haven't had many issues here though, I generally defend by standing off players and keeping my shape taking the ball off the forwards around the edge of my own box and I've certainly held my own defensively.

I haven't really messed about with the new tactical settings yet but I'm certainly encouraged to see the opposition change their tactics depending on the game situation even if they can leave themselves maybe a bit too open when looking for that equaliser late on. I generally pick them off pretty easily. One annoyance that is still here is substitutions, whilst I love the fact they are much quicker than before I still see the computer making three single subs every game, often subs that make no sense like replacing Cesc with Jon Obi Mikel in a goalless game. Too many times they will make a like for like sub for no real reason other than because they can. How about a double sub every now and again or even a tactical sub or maybe just one or two a game to mix it up a bit.

Overall though I think we have the best FIFA yet and with this game likely only to get better in the future I think we will be in for a real treat on this new generation of consoles.

# 272 Gnemi @ 09/10/14 08:20 PM

Stupid question - how do I change the difficulty setting? On PC.

# 273 Chronic Narnia @ 09/10/14 08:21 PM

i don't ps4 demo in the usa store?