EA Sports FC 27 Reviews
Despite countless reworked systems, EA Sports FC 27 is more of the same. There are only slight graphic and audio improvements, the AI changes sometimes hinder the player rather than help them, and lastly, but not least, there are still countless pointless microtransactions.
EA SPORTS FC 27 falls victim once again to aggressive monetization, sacrificing a Career Mode full of untapped potential entirely at the altar of Ultimate Team. Core gameplay, realism, physics, and animations are consistently sidelined for exaggerated speed and twitch-reaction mechanics, all engineered to drive card pack sales. With zero real market competition and an endless appetite for profit, true football simulation feels further away than ever, trapped until the younger generation of fans stops feeding the cash cow.
Review in Persian | Read full review
EA FC 27, as always, has saved its biggest improvements for Ultimate Team. However, the addition of The Grounds alone is a groundbreaking step for EA. If this step is followed by the integration of at least a single-player game mode, the future of FC games could start to make much more sense for a far wider audience.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
EA Sports FC 27 is a largely iterative entry that improves its gameplay and expands its game modes with new features such as The Grounds and a more comprehensive Career Mode.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
EA Sports FC 27 resembles contemporary football: huge, spectacular, and full of contradictions. On the pitch, it's more entertaining than it has been in years, Career Mode finds new momentum, FUT continues to ask too much, and The Grounds, on the other hand, is a cardboard city that (perhaps) no one wanted.
Review in Italian | Read full review
EA Sports FC 27 is a confident step forward on the pitch, and its reworked corners turn set pieces into genuine scoring chances again.
Review in German | Read full review
EA Sports FC 27 is far from a mere roster update, introducing meaningful gameplay improvements, a more dynamic Career Mode, and plenty of content, including The Grounds. However, the Nintendo Switch 2 version struggles with its 30 FPS cap, optimization issues, visual artifacts, and a small online community that particularly affects modes reliant on other players. The limited representation of Brazilian football is another major disappointment, with only Bahia and Botafogo included and no Brazilian league available. While the game offers a more complete experience than previous Nintendo versions and introduces promising ideas, its technical shortcomings and content limitations prevent it from reaching its full potential. FC 27 is a competent football game with plenty of good ideas, but on Switch 2, it ultimately delivers a merely good experience rather than the outstanding one it could have been.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
This is the first FC I’ve played since the name changed from FIFA, but I feel as though I’ve known this series since its very beginnings. Of course, there has been a whole evolution, which takes the form of overlapping blocks, and within each one we find successive annual editions that improve in some respects and are revamped in others. For this reason, it is also difficult to gauge the impact of these updates, as they are often circumstantial or the result of a trend that may change the following year. I would emphasise that the shift towards online play may appeal to many fans due to its competitive aspect, whilst running the risk of dampening the interest of those who prefer to play on their own.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
EA SPORTS FC 27 improves on the past. It is a better version of last year’s game, and I didn’t run into any issues finding games in the online modes.
Drawing a line under it all, EA FC 27 is an incredibly fun game, perhaps largely because it currently acts more as a goal-scoring simulator than a true football simulator. That doesn't inherently make it good or bad, just different. As time goes on, and players finally learn how to manually control their defense, hold their defensive lines, and react appropriately, I firmly believe multiplayer clashes will improve drastically. For now, this feels like a very solid, if slightly shaky, foundation for the future. However, the game's long-term success doesn't solely depend on the cocktail EA mixed with FC 27, it relies entirely on how the community receives these mechanical shifts, and whether they ultimately decide this new direction is worth adapting to.
Review in Unknown | Read full review
Alex Hunter is back, but his comeback isn’t even the biggest surprise in EA Sports FC 27. As soon as the ball starts rolling, you notice what EA has truly been focusing on. Passing requires greater precision, attackers move more intelligently, and you’ll find yourself having to take a more hands-on approach to defending. Career Mode, in particular, benefits from these changes, feeling more vibrant than before. Not everything hits the mark, however. "The Grounds" mode appears ambitious, but often feels like a detour from the core game of football. Furthermore, sluggish menus, inconsistent AI, and various technical issues persist. While FC 27 may look very similar to its predecessor, there is more going on under the hood than meets the eye.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
EA Sports FC 27 is a successful evolution that convinces on the pitch with smarter AI and improved career transfers, but its atmospheric new mode The Grounds wastes potential by being online-only and lacking AI opponents.
Review in German | Read full review
EA Sports FC 27 delivers exactly what fans expected, refining and expanding its established formula rather than reinventing it. Meaningful gameplay and mode improvements provide a consistently satisfying experience across different playstyles. However, The Grounds disappoints, some areas lack innovation, and lingering issues, including the unnecessary paid Season Pass and underwhelming goalkeepers, remain. Despite these flaws, it remains the market’s most complete and varied football game.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Is EA Sports FC 27 the game that real-life soccer fans will be waiting for to enjoy digital soccer? Probably not.
Review in Greek | Read full review
EA Sports FC 27 offers a solid football experience, ntroducing adjustments to defending and player movement. However, it suffers from repetitive chance creation and scoring methods, as well as the underwhelming quality of The Grounds mode. Ultimately, the quality of the experience heavily depends on the mode you spend most of your time in and how you choose to play it.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
FC 27 is the slightly different annual entry compared to previous releases, differing through its additions to the Career Mode, exciting and realistic changes, the addition of the enjoyable The Grounds mode, and some adjustments to the most popular Ultimate Team mode. However, these were not enough for it to be considered a fully new and different release, as the game still uses the same assets present since previous entries, without changing even the graphics, celebration cutscenes, or referee animations. It also suffered from some technical issues and the persistence of direct pay-to-win mechanics.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
EA Sports FC 27 is indeed bringing some real changes this year. The Grounds is a completely new open world packed with arcade-style fun and alternative gameplay options. Ultimate Team is once again fully supported and has an extra weapon in the form of the UT Gallery. Career mode features a revamped transfer system that works well. In terms of gameplay, you have more defensive options than ever before. A few frustrating bugs remain. Online play isn’t always fair and can still be a bit of a nightmare at times. The Grounds is still in its infancy but has potential. Long live the beautiful game.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
EA SPORTS FC 27 is at its best when it stops treating football as just a competition and starts treating it as a culture. The Grounds is the clearest example of that, bringing together casual Kickabouts, competitive football, club building, mentorship, and different football traditions into one shared space. Combined with a more responsive gameplay system and deeper progression across the major modes, FC 27 feels like a substantial step forward for the series.
EA SPORTS FC 27 is a really solid sports game with numerous gameplay additions, new modes, and improvements for single-player and multiplayer-oriented gamers alike. However, the game's technical drawbacks on Switch 2 and similarities with past releases in the series will make it feel like an incremental upgrade for returning players.
Driven by rewarding manual mechanics and a deep Career Mode, EA SPORTS FC 27 excels where it counts most, even if extra modes don't quite hold up their end.