| FIFA 23 | |
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| Developers | EA Vancouver EA Romania |
| Publisher | EA Sports |
| Series | FIFA |
| Engine | Frostbite 3[1] |
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| Release | 30 September 2022 |
| Genre | Sports |
| Modes | Single-player,multiplayer |
| Part of a series on the |
| 2022 FIFA World Cup |
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FIFA 23 is afootballvideo game published byEA Sports. It is the 30th and final installment in theFIFA series that is developed byEA Sports, and released worldwide on 30 September 2022 forNintendo Switch,PlayStation 4,PlayStation 5,Windows,Xbox One,Xbox Series X/S, andStadia.[2]
Kylian Mbappé andSam Kerr are the cover athletes for the standard and legacy editions.
Listed inGuinness World Records as the best-sellingsports video game franchise in the world, the game is the final under the 29-year partnership between EA andFIFA. Future football games by EA are named under the banner ofEA Sports FC, beginning withEA Sports FC 24. The game's online servers shut down on October 30, 2025.[3]
FIFA 23 features a degree ofcrossplay. Crossplay is available in FIFAUltimate Team (FUT) Division Rivals (excluding co-op), FUT Champions, FUT Ultimate Online Draft, FUT Online Friendlies (excluding Co-Op), FUT Play a Friend, Online Friendlies, Online Seasons (excluding Co-Op Seasons) and the Virtual representation of theBundesliga. However, crossplay is limited to consoles that fall within the sameconsole generation. For example, those on thePlayStation 4 are able to play with and against players onXbox One, but not thePlayStation 5 orXbox Series X/S and vice versa. Pro Clubs will not support crossplay.[4]
The decision to omit Pro Clubs from crossplay has received criticism from the FIFA community.[5]
Furthermore, the option to delete Ultimate Team data has been removed due to most players not using that option, while an option to rename the club's name outside of the Objectives screen has been added instead. In previousFIFA titles, players can only use the Delete Club option 4 times, as they are allowed to create a club 5 times.
The game features what is being dubbed as "HyperMotion2", a system of match capture withmachine learning from real life football matches to create over 6,000 in-game animations. "Technical Dribbling" uses what is being called the "Active Touch" system to improve the footballer's path to the ball and improve a player's turning and dribbling with more responsiveness.[6] Both systems are exclusive to current-generation versions (i.e.PS5,Xbox Series X/S andPC).[7]
FIFA 23 features themen's World Cup game mode and thewomen's World Cup game mode, replicating the2022 FIFA World Cup and the2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.[8] This is the only title in the series to feature both World Cups as special modes.
The2022 FIFA World Cup mode was released on 9 November for all platforms except for theNintendo Switch Legacy Edition. The mode contains only two out of eight stadiums:Al Bayt andLusail Iconic Stadium. The mode also contains each of the32 teams that qualified for the 2022 tournament, along with fifteen other national teams that are featured in the game and did not qualify:Austria,China,Czech Republic,Finland,Hungary,Iceland,Italy,New Zealand,Northern Ireland,Norway,Republic of Ireland,Romania,Scotland,Sweden, andUkraine.[9] The World Cup mode in FIFA 23 is the last World Cup mode since the new generation of FIFA games will go under the name of EA Sports FC; therefore will not get licensing from FIFA.
On 19 June 2023, it was announced that the2023 FIFA Women's World Cup mode would be released around the end of June 2023.[10][11][12] The update was released on 27 June 2023, replicating the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup tournament and featuring the 32 qualified teams.[13][14] The mode also contains only one of the ten stadiums:Stadium Australia; whereas the rest take place in generic arenas.
FIFA 23 features three new icons to its ICON Collection with the addition ofGerd Müller,Xabi Alonso andJairzinho. With new addition to these three, 8 of the previously added icons are missing from the Icons List released byEA Sports.[15]Diego Maradona,Ryan Giggs,Pep Guardiola,Deco,Marc Overmars andFilippo Inzaghi have been removed as icons forFIFA 23.Jay-Jay Okocha andHidetoshi Nakata have been removed as icons forFIFA 23, but are now featured as heroes.
FIFA 23, in an exclusive deal betweenEA Sports andMarvel, features 21 new heroes to the existing heroes collection fromFIFA 22, which now featurecomic book art styles, with the additions of:Lúcio,Jean-Pierre Papin,Rudi Völler,Diego Forlán,Rafael Márquez,Javier Mascherano,Ricardo Carvalho,Tomas Brolin,Harry Kewell,Yaya Touré,Claudio Marchisio,Landon Donovan,Joan Capdevila,Sidney Govou,Dirk Kuyt,Park Ji-sung,Włodzimierz Smolarek,Saeed Al-Owairan andPeter Crouch, with the late addition ofLedley King after the game's release.[16]
This entry in theFIFA video game series is the first to introduce women's club football. England's FAWomen's Super League and the FrenchDivision 1 Féminine are included at launch, with more women's football leagues planned to be added later on.[17] This comes alongsideSam Kerr, who plays forChelsea Women, becoming the first femalefootballer to feature on the global front cover of the game.[18] On 18 October 2022,EA Sports announced the inclusion of theUEFA Women's Champions League in the game for early 2023.[19][20] On 6 March 2023, EA announced the addition of the UEFA Women's Champions League and theNational Women's Soccer League beginning on 15 March 2023.[21][22] On 14 March, EA announced theUWCL andNWSL update would be available by 23 March due to issues encountered duringtesting.[23]
FIFA 23 contains over 30 licensed leagues, over 100 licensed stadiums, over 700 clubs and more than 19,000 players.[24]Roma,Atalanta,Lazio andNapoli are not featured inFIFA 23 due to their exclusivity agreements with rival gameeFootball, and are instead known as Roma FC, Bergamo Calcio, Latium, and Napoli FC respectively. The game retains the players' likenesses, but the official badge, kits and stadiums are replaced with custom designs and generic stadiums created by EA Sports.Juventus, having been similarly absent for the past three entries and thus known as Piemonte Calcio, are featured in the game however.[24]
The game no longer feature the teams of theJ1 League, due toEA andJ.League's six-year partnership coming to an end.[25] Almost all Latin American leagues were also removed from the game, with only theArgentine Primera División remaining; the teams that contend theCopa Libertadores andCopa Sudamericana are also still present. TheRussian Premier League remained absent from thegame as well, due to the ongoingRussian invasion of Ukraine.
New stadiums added to the game include thePhilips Stadion, home ofPSV Eindhoven, theEuropa-Park Stadion, home ofSC Freiburg, theBMO Stadium, home ofLos Angeles FC, and theAcademy Stadium, home ofManchester City Women. TheJuventus Stadium, home ofJuventus, andLa Bombonera, home ofBoca Juniors, are also added, having been absent from the past few entries due to licence issues.Nottingham Forest's home ground, theCity Ground, was added post-launch via an update, thus ensuring all 20Premier League clubs have their respective stadiums.[26][27]Bayern Munich andBarcelona are also featured in the game with licensed players and kits, but do not have theirstadium licenses and thus play in generic stadiums, as well as allSerie B teams, which were licensed for the first time in the series.
The game features fictional club AFC Richmond and their stadium Nelson Road from theApple TV+ seriesTed Lasso.[28][29]
Alongside the game's main soundtrack, 40 of the 100 popular tracks from previous FIFA titles — collectively known as the "Ultimate FIFA Soundtrack" — were added to the game in November 2022.[30] These songs included "Song 2" byBlur (FIFA: Road to World Cup 98), "Love Me Again" byJohn Newman (FIFA 14), "The Nights" byAvicii (FIFA 15) and many more. As a result of these additions, FIFA 23's soundtrack is the largest in the series.[31] The game's VOLTA soundtrack features songs written by RAYE, David Asante, Central Cee, Nas, Curtis Richa and Disclosure.
| Aggregator | Score |
|---|---|
| Metacritic | PC: 77/100[32] PS5: 76/100[33] XSXS: 79/100[34] |
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| Famitsu | 34/40[48] |
| Game Informer | 7.25/10[35] |
| GameSpot | 7/10[36] |
| GamesRadar+ |   [37] |
| Hardcore Gamer | 4/5[38] |
| IGN | PS5: 7/10[39] NS: 2/10[40] |
| Nintendo Life | [41] |
| PCGamesN | 7/10[42] |
| Push Square | [43] |
| The Guardian | [44] |
| Video Games Chronicle | [45] |
| VG247 | [47] |
| VideoGamer.com | 7/10[46] |
FIFA 23 received "generally favorable" reviews, according toreview aggregator websiteMetacritic.[32][33][34] The Nintendo Switch version was widely panned, with critics deriding EA for not adding any significant improvements over previous versions of the game.[41][40] Writing forGamesRadar+, Ben Wilson criticized the gameplay, citing the game's pay-to-win aspects, along with moments where "player control felt sabotaged"; though stated that the series bowed out on a high and expressed encouragement for EA Sports FC scheduled for next year.[49]Game Informer praised the title, stating that it's “flashy, fun to play and has a lot of modes”, but criticized its similarity to previous installments of the series.[50]
IGN rated the game a 7/10 and said "FIFA 23’s slick and dramatic virtual football is fitting for the series’ last hurrah under its long-time name, but familiar frustrations abound, and it still greatly undervalues some of its most beloved modes."[51]
It was nominated for theBritish Academy Games Award for Multiplayer at the19th British Academy Games Awards[52] as well as forSports Game of the Year andOnline Game of the Year at the26th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards.[53]
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