As far as FIFA Platinum trophies go, this years installment is actually relatively tame in comparison to previous years, however, on a general scale, it still stands up a challenging list.
It is important to note straight away that the degree of difficulty in this list will vary depending on 1 trophy.
The "How Great is that?" trophy, for finding a Team of the Week player in an Ultimate Team pack, is purely based on luck and there is, theoretically, no guarantee you will ever unlock it. It didn't take me too long to find one personally, but there are plenty of people who will probably give up, and that's a tough blow to take given the fact there is nothing you can do to influence the trophy.
The best method to increase your chances is to just open the cheaper bronze packs, but that's only by virtue of the fact that the cheaper prices will allow you to open a greater quantity of them. It may also be important to note that transferred player cards during any transfer period throughout the season will also trigger the requirements for the trophy, even though they aren't actually In Form cards. Whether this is intentional to make it easier, or just a glitch, is undetermined, but it does slightly increase your chances of unlocking the trophy, and a transferred player during the January window is how I actually managed to earn this trophy.
Sticking with the Ultimate Team based trophies in this list, the "Growing Club" trophy, for achieving a club value of £85M in Ultimate Team, is just a matter of amassing enough players to reach the target, but you'll need somewhere in the region of around 200,000 coins to be able to reach the equivalent club value total, which will require a heavy time investment in the Ultimate Team mode. You'll also need to be prepared to buy alot of players to fulfil this requirement, and despite the Ultimate Team database being vast, the 700-800 players needed is still quite a large chunk of the game and it is a very tedious task collecting them all.
The "Club Legend" trophy, awarded for playing 100 matches with any player in Ultimate Team, means you'll be spending yet even more time in the games Ultimate Team mode. It shouldn't take longer than the "Growing Club" trophy to achieve this milestone, but you need to be aware of which player you're using to strive towards this target, and definitely be even more aware of the fact that you cannot sell him at any point, else the counter will reset to zero and you'll have to continue with someone else instead.
Sticking with the continuous theme of Ultimate Team, the "Pack King" trophy, awarded for opening 100 packs in Ultimate Team, is just as time consuming as the rest of the Ultimate Team trophies, and even though you could just theoretically open 500 coin bronze packs and keep your expenses to a minimum, it isn't your best chance of accumulating a club value of £85M or pulling a Team of the Week player, so it's best just to let this trophy come naturally and focus on the importance of the other trophies in this list.
Everything else just requires dabbling into the various other game modes within the game, or performing certain actions within matches. There are a few tricky tasks to accomplish during the game, such as scoring with a bicycle kick and scoring a 90th minute winner against the computer, but these are mostly just circumstantial, and with the amount of time you'll need to plug into this list, you should get them eventually just through natural play.
The "Virtual Legend" trophy, awarded for playing 50 matches with your Virtual Pro, is a rather time consuming venture, and with Be A Pro games being set to a minimum of 10 minutes, you can expect to be putting around 10 hours into this trophy alone, which is a little bit grindy if you're not a big fan of the Be A Pro game mode.
There are a small handful of trophies related to the games career mode, but you can easily mop up every single one of them within just a single season, but it is important to note that if you intend to play through for all of a them, a single season is quite a long journey. Thankfully, simulating does work, as per usual, and the career mode trophy selection isn't as demanding as it has been in previous years.
It also wouldn't be a FIFA Platinum without the "FIFA for life" trophy, which yet again returns, and requires you to spend 50 hours on the pitch, but as usual, that is mostly irrelevant because of the fact you'll easily need to rack up many more hours than that to complete this entire list anyway.
The Ultimate Team mode is where the challenge of this Platinum trophy is mainly stored, and even though the game is just mostly time consuming, which really shouldn't be a problem for people who enjoy FIFA, you'll get best results from being good at the game, so there is an element of skill involved too. There is also a big luck element, and pulling an In Form player just simply will not happen for alot of people, which is hard to accept when you're used to trophy lists that are purely in the players control.
If you can get over that barrier, there's no other reason why you wouldn't be able to unlock everything else. The quantity of time consuming trophies in the list will take anywhere between 150-200 hours collectively, and you'll spend of that time in the Ultimate Team mode, but the "How Great is that?" trophy is way too variant in timescale from player to player to nail down a concrete time to represent a general experience.
A big time commitment and huge elements of luck keep FIFA 12 in line with previous FIFA trophy lists, with a steady challenge to be extracted from the games trophies. There isn't exactly a huge emphasis on skill, but you'll get through this list quicker if you're better at the game, but it's a still a tough nut to crack regardless.
Notable Trophies -
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| How Great is that? - Find a team of the week player in an Ultimate Team pack Growing Club - Achieve a club value of 85,000,000 in FIFA 12 Ultimate Team Club Legend - Play 100 matches with any player in FIFA 12 Ultimate Team Pack King - Open 100 packs in FIFA 12 Ultimate Team Virtual Legend - Play 50 matches with your Virtual Pro FIFA for Life - Spend 50 hours on the pitch |
How Great is that?
Find a Team of the Week player in an Ultimate Team Pack
