Rizeli53 EA Sports FC 26 Review

First of all, people who play this game should understand one thing very clearly: in this game, skill does not matter as much as money does. Players who spend money will almost always have an advantage over those who don’t. Your talent, decision-making, or gameplay skills feel largely irrelevant. If you invest money into the game, you are automatically one step ahead of most players. However, even if you do spend money, there is another serious issue. Getting what you actually want in return is still extremely difficult. You can invest a lot and still fail to build the team you aim for. So even paying does not guarantee satisfaction. Besides that, no matter how well you play or how successful you are during matches, the game often produces absurd and illogical situations. Completely random and unrealistic things happen during gameplay. At times, it feels like everything is already pre-coded from start to finish. No matter how well you play, it can feel like your effort is meaningless, as if the outcome is already decided. When it comes to playing against AI, the situation becomes even more frustrating. Players are encouraged to adjust the difficulty level based on the opponent’s team rating in order to earn more points. For example, when facing a low-rated squad, you increase the difficulty to gain higher rewards. But the problem is not just that the opponent becomes stronger. When you increase the difficulty, your own team suddenly starts to feel different. Your players no longer perform according to their actual ratings. Even if you are using an 85-rated squad, once the difficulty goes up, your players begin to behave as if they are weaker, slower, and less responsive — as if they were controlled by players with much lower attributes. At the same time, the opposing team becomes unrealistically powerful. Low-rated squads can easily outperform high-rated teams. You can see situations where a player with 60 pace and very low shooting stats completely dominates players in your squad who have 90 pace and far superior attributes. This feels like a deliberate manipulation by the game itself. The difficulty setting does not simply make the AI smarter; it actively weakens your own team while boosting the opponent in an artificial and unfair way. This breaks immersion and makes the gameplay feel frustrating and dishonest rather than challenging.