EA Sports FC 25 Reviews

EA Sports FC 25 is ranked in the 67th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
6.5 / 10.0
Oct 14, 2024

Despite numerous efforts and innovations, FC 25 remains in the shadow of FIFA's golden era. While promising new features like FC IQ and AI Behavior signal progress, the past few years have been challenging. The path ahead for the EA Sports FC series looks even more difficult as it strives to recapture the glory of its predecessor.

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IGN
Top Critic
6 / 10.0
Sep 26, 2024

EA Sports FC 25 delivers a few bright spots, like the fun and refreshing Rush mode, but stagnating gameplay and incremental improvements leave it feeling like EA continues to play it too safe.

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Sep 23, 2024

It’s always difficult to score EA FC games in a traditional sense, because the game has remained ultimately unchanged from previous iterations. Will I play this game a lot? Yes. Will I enjoy every minute of it? Most definitely not. But there will be moments that I enjoy, like packing a really good player, or clutching a win in FUT Champions. It’s an FC game, through and through. You’ll either love it or hate it, or, like me, you’ll fall probably somewhere in the middle.

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Sep 25, 2024

FC 25's gameplay familiarity may trigger initial disappointment, but career mode tweaks and the brilliant Rush mode soon pull you back in for another year. Ultimate Team, meanwhile, remains divisive as ever – but fans of that mode will love its myriad fan-service additions.

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6 / 10
Sep 27, 2024

With an overhauled tactics system and a thrilling new mode, EA FC 25 makes some positive steps forward that are unfortunately tempered by long-standing issues and a lack of improvements elsewhere.

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4.5 / 5.0
Sep 24, 2024

EA SPORTS has introduced FC IQ to EA SPORTS FC 25 that aims to overhaul the gameplay and add strategy to building teams and approaching game day.

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Oct 4, 2024

EA Sports FC 25 remains the default choice for anybody wanting to enjoy a virtual version of the world's most popular sport. However, the fantastic new Rush mode isn't enough to prevent this installment from feeling seriously stale.

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Unscored
Sep 30, 2024

An annual update to a polished, occasionally spectacular, and slightly overfamiliar suite of football and card collecting.

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8 / 10
Oct 3, 2024

EA finally treated Switch owners to a feature-parity football game last year and EA Sports FC 25 continues this by adding the new modes also available on other systems. Rush, in particular, is a great new way to play a tighter, more action-packed version of football, and the expanded season rewards system means the game is less reliant on Ultimate Team – which is typically under-populated on Switch – to give players new tasks throughout the year. Performance is still underwhelming but this is otherwise the second solid entry in a row from EA.

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8 / 10.0
Sep 30, 2024

EA Sports FC 25 has a focus on tactics that are mostly noticeable, and while Rush is a cool new mode, it does feel pretty similar to last year.

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8 / 10
Sep 20, 2024

FC 25 is the first genuinely good FC game in years. A complete tactical overhaul underpins the game’s quality, with sweeping and much-needed changes to Career Mode backing it up, unfortunately, somewhat at the expense of Clubs and Ultimate Team.

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7 / 10.0
Sep 24, 2024

EA FC 25 offers a much more polished gameplay and adds enough details to make the experience at the controls much better. In addition, the new career mode is now more interesting and deeper for those of us who enjoy creating our own legacy.

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8.5 / 10.0
Sep 30, 2024

With a year's delay EA Sports FC finds its identity, between the old FIFA and something new, more complex and more interesting.

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80 / 100
Sep 24, 2024

EA Sports FC 25 is established as a new evolution in the saga. There is nothing revolutionary inside, but it does add enough incentives to be more attractive than other past installments. FC IQ has an impact, the Rush mode is fun and its presentation continues to be flawless.

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7 / 10
Sep 20, 2024

EA Sports FC 25 takes a useful step forward in simulating real football, with a new tactics system and smarter AI, but the improvements aren't quite as effective as they could be.

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6 / 10
Sep 24, 2024

EA Sports FC 25 is going to be much like the game you remember from last year. While FC IQ and roles do a good job of making tactics feel varied and exciting, there are many adjustments and improvements that need to be made to AI before things feel balanced. When slide comes to tackle, not too much has changed this year.

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7 / 10
Sep 24, 2024

EA Sports FC 25 is a slightly better offering than FC 24, thanks to the new Rush mode. FC IQ is still in its early stages and while it could have a huge impact on future titles, it is not yet very apparent how it is impacting the on the pitch action in this game. This is the EA Sports FC as you already know it. Whether that is a good or bad thing is up to you.

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VGC
Top Critic
Sep 27, 2024

EA Sports FC 25 makes smart choices so that the time you're spending in the game feels much more worthwhile. Rush is the best addition in years, and hopefully indicative of the future of the franchise.

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8 / 10
Oct 8, 2024

EA Sports FC 25 is the best playing version of the annual soccer sim in quite some time, with more intelligent artificial intelligence and weather physics adding a layer of density and dynamism to the experience – albeit largely offline. To us, Ultimate Team feels like it's getting a bit stale, but we like the addition of Rush across the entire release, which offers something a little different for when you fancy a change of pace. And while the commentary and menus are below par, the overall quality of the presentation continues to be underappreciated.

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8 / 10
Sep 25, 2024

The cash cow of Ultimate Team will always override everything else with FC 25, sadly. In an ideal world, EA Sports would develop Clubs into a major eSport, which would do extremely well. Real world soccer clubs around the world could have their own teams, and most importantly, the gameplay would then take priority with Ultimate Team being in the background generating income. Plainly, the game would be much better for it.

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