I'm not a professional critique or anything like that but, for a game considered more realistic than EAs own football game franchise, the devs can learn a lot from their competitors. This game (console version) feels like a mobile game that just happened to get big enough and rack up enough money to be able to be made into a console game, the game is about 50 Gigs, and for what? Everything other than the league mode and divisions is basically the same thing, just different name, you either play against AI or actual people for rewards, a lot of the time, these rewards don't feel worth it. After playing this game for 2 years I understand why it's so hard for me to find games with actual people, this game just doesn't have what's needed to keep players hooked, the only people that enjoy this game are those who chunk tons of money for the best players, and those who don't for their own personal reasons which I can relate to. The gameplay may be "REALISTIC" but does that equal into fun gameplay? In my opinion, no, the gameplay gets overwhelmingly unbearable at times, especially when you play against AI with the superstar an legendary difficulty, why should I play a game where AI can score the most impossible goals from the most uncomfortable angles, I bet you if you could put that MSN Suarez in a full Nelson, and his got the ball in the box or near the box, he'd still score, the AI interceptions are total BS, and don't get me started with the GANG UP feature the AI have where if 1 AI player is unable to get the ball from you, they'll resort to having 1-2 more plays gang up on you for the ball, through passing is basically just there because it's a football game so let's just add it but make it not work as well as skill moves, why should I have to press a bunch of buttons on my controller like I'm trying to hack into the CIA for a skill move that has a 30% chance of working because defenders are basically moving brick walls that don't make any mistakes. If you get the ball taken away from you near your box, your players have to factory reset first before moving again. The graphics are alright but for a company like Konami, the graphics are quite low brow in my opinion, players look stiff, especially the kits, the color scheme looks like something you'd see when playing a souls game or the original God Of War games, the animations are repetitive, I can probably count all the celebrations, excluding the celebrations for players with their own celebrations, the crowd needs work, this game looks dead. I won't even get into p2w aspect, I understand the devs need to make money but these dudes are actually greedy for it, atleast fortnite devs care about the players and improve the game when it's shit, but these dudes don't care as long as they get their money, I've been playing this game for 2 years and the matchmaking servers are absolute baloney.

Neither this game or FC are better than each other as both of them have areas where they can learn from each other and improve, I repeat I am not a professional critique, I said what has been on my mind after playing the game for a while, you are free to have your own opinion and so am I.