FIFA 20

Lore & Background

Real Madrid winger Eden Hazard was named the new cover star of the Standard Edition, with Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk on the cover of the Champions Edition. Former Juventus and Real Madrid midfielder Zinedine Zidane was later named as the cover star for the Ultimate Edition. The game features VOLTA Football for the first time, a new mode that provides a variance on the traditional 11v11 gameplay and focuses on small-sided street and futsal games. The mode shares similarities to the former FIFA Street series. VOLTA Football includes a story mode following a player nicknamed 'Revvy' who tries out for the street football team 'J10', led by Jason 'Jayzinho' Quezada, and eventually wins the World Championship in Buenos Aires. Commentary is provided by Martin Tyler and Alan Smith and alternating with Derek Rae and Lee Dixon for all competitions, with Alan McInally providing in-game score updates and Geoff Shreeves providing pitch-side injury updates. Each player has his own overall rating, with Lionel Messi having the highest rating in the game with a 94.

In Their Own Story

The floodlights hum to life over a rain-slicked pitch. You've loaded into a Tiki-Taka match, and the first touch is a soft, one-touch pass that threads between two defenders like it was choreographed. The crowd noise swells in the Frostbite-rendered stands, a low roar that you feel more in your controller's rumble than in your ears. Your striker receives the ball in the box, the rain beading on the jersey, and the moment stretches—just a heartbeat—before the shot curls past the keeper. The replay camera swoops in slow motion, the ball spinning against a backdrop of blurred advertising boards, and for three seconds the whole world is just that one perfect pass and the net rippling behind it. You exhale. The match continues.

Reader's Guide

Gameplay changes to FIFA 20 focus primarily on VOLTA Football, which includes options to play in three versus three, four versus four and five versus five matches, as well as with professional futsal rules. Players can create a custom player by gender, clothing, shoes, hats, accessories and tattoos. Changes were also made to the traditional 11 versus 11 mode to encourage more one-on-ones and off-the-ball space creation. New penalty and free-kick mechanics were implemented and updates were made to the ball physics. VOLTA Football includes 17 locations, including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Lagos, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, New York City, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Tokyo. Pro Clubs mode allows players to create personalised pros and compete online. Ultimate Team features 88 icon players, including 15 new names such as Carlos Alberto, John Barnes, Kenny Dalglish, Didier Drogba, Michael Essien, Garrincha, Pep Guardiola, Kaká, Ronald Koeman, Andrea Pirlo, Ian Rush, Hugo Sánchez, Ian Wright, Gianluca Zambrotta and Zinedine Zidane. Two new game modes – King of the Hill and Mystery Ball – are incorporated in Ultimate Team. Career Mode includes fully interactive press conferences and player conversations, an improved player morale system, the ability to fully customise the manager's appearance and gender, a new dynamic player potential system, live news screenshots, league oriented UI and new negotiation environments.

Did You Know?

• FIFA 20 is the first main series game not to have Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions since FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup and FIFA 08 respectively.
• The game features VOLTA Football, a mode that translates to 'return' in Portuguese and focuses on street football.
• Alex Hunter makes a cameo in the VOLTA Football story mode, along with his agent Beatriz Villanova.
• Popular football fan personality Troopz was added as a guest announcer for the Volta London location.
• For the first time in FIFA history, the Romanian Liga I and its 14 teams were added, as well as Emirati club Al Ain.