The feel of footballBut forget the drama for a fifa 15 ultimate team coins moment, and feel the sim. Fifa 15 is pretty delightful to play: zippy passing, tight handling without the regimented "close control" feature-set of Fifa 14, and a much greater sense that you can freely disperse the ball around the pitch at any angle. The action feels faster, looser, more expressive. The ball rebounds, spins and curls off at convincing angles. "There are three things that have changed the feel of the game, " says producer Nick Channon as we kick off our Manchester City versus Liverpool match. "We've completely re-written dribbling so you've got more control, more fidelity of movement.

There are a lot of contextual tricks, but we want everyone to feel capable, that they're doing cool things just using the left stick. "Last year we put in step-based locomotion which was a big change, it made everything look nice, but at times people felt it was a little bit sluggish, a little unresponsive, so we've done a lot of work around quicker more agile turns. Defenders will now stick with the attacking player more naturally whereas before you'd have to press A to contain - we don't particularly want that all the time. "The final thing is, we've reworked all the ball physics on the ground, so every single touch is different. It sounds small, but it's had a profound effect: previously if you touched the ball as it came in, we'd zero the spin, whereas now you're imparting spin on it so however you kick it, wherever you touch, it becomes part of the calculations.

It sounds geeky, but it's much more realistic and in passing it creates a better feeling of fluidity. We had fans in relatively early to test the system and they were saying it feels much more responsive. It's changed the game. "The physical nature of the action has also evolved. Fifas 13 and 14 were experimenting with the jostle between players, now Fifa 15 lets you hold down B to use your body instead of tackling. At first, you'll bump against your rival, but if that's unsuccessful, it will gradually evolve to shirt tugging. Maybe that's the deal with Fifa 15 everything is much buy fifa 14 coins more seamless and fluid; you don't get those staccato changes in tempo that come with rigidly defined controls.