Now that it's been made clear what the delay was for, FIFA 16 somewhat returns the series to normality of what you would consider for a FIFA trophy list these days.
The list encompasses involvement in most of the game modes present with FIFA with very straight-forward challenges. Ultimate team, Pro Clubs, Online seasons and Career mode are all accounted for again, with some direct duplication of trophies from previous FIFA games present too.
FIFA 16 also introduces Women's football for the first time ever, along with a fully fledged game mode revolving around the Women's International Cup. There is also a small portion of the list dedicated to this addition.
For the most part, this is an incredibly easy list, and most certainly continues the year on year trend of easy FIFA Platinum trophies that have occurred since around FIFA 13. There is rarely any necessity to extensively divulge into any of the game modes to achieve the trophies attached to them, and this allows you to complete them quickly and move onto the next seamlessly.
Where the exceptions lie, and where most of this game's difficulty rating comes from, are within the Ultimate Team game mode, and sit purely with just 2 trophies.
The "The Invincibles" trophy, awarded for winning all 4 matches in an Online FUT Draft session in FIFA Ultimate Team, focuses around the newly added Draft mode, and requires you to go all the way and win the highest prize in the Draft.
Along with Women's football, the FUT draft is the other big addition to FIFA 16. The concept behind this involves selecting a team based on a random assortment of players presented to the player, and then making these choices based on who would best fit into your squad. You get a "Captain" offered as your first choice, who is usually one of the best players in the game, and this acts as the foundation to picking the rest of the team. The overall idea revolves around being able to match up the best possible combination from the players offered to you, both in terms of quality rating and chemistry. This would then be the final team you take into a knock-out tournament format, and attempt to win 4 matches in a row against other users who have also drafted squads.
The first barrier to participation is the fact the FUT draft has a buy-in. This can be through 15,000 in-game coins, or 300 FIFA points, which are purchased and topped up with real money. 300 FIFA points will see you part company with the monetary equivalent of £2.50, but in EA's ever infinite clever wisdom, you can't buy in a single increment of 300, and instead you'll have to either purchase 200 points for £1.99 twice, or purchase 500 points for £3.99 in order to cover the buy-in fee.
On the flipside, you can build up 15,000 coins through competing within the main Ultimate Team game mode through winning matches, cups and leagues. Earning promotion and winning titles within the Online season does grant some generous coin bonuses, which will contribute nicely towards accumulating the entry fee, but if you can bring yourself to spend real money and take the short-cut of buying in, that may be a more feasible, and certainly quicker option, for most people.
Once you've managed to fund your entry into the draft, and chosen your team, you then have to win 4 matches in a row, which is where the real challenge comes in. The FUT draft is a seriously competitive game mode, and you'll play some very good players who have the luxury of drafting some very good teams. The moment you lose a game, you'll be knocked out of the tournament and you'll have to buy your way in for any subsequent drafts your enter moving forward.
Just to add some perspective to this, I entered the draft 14 times before I managed to win it, and after getting bored of the endless cycle of accumulating 15,000 coins per time, I ended up taking the short-cut and buying my way in via FIFA points. The good news is, after every win along the way, you're rewarded with prizes, which is greater the further you manage to progress, redeemable in the form of packs and prizes. If you can manage to get to the Semi-Final stage, the prizes you get back in return will go a decent way towards covering your entry fee, so this is a nice consolation to have behind you, albeit dependent on solid progression. If you lose early though, this is a costly set-back.
This is also a genuine challenge. It is a top skill to be able to win 4 games in a row in online FIFA. Some very good players almost monopolise game modes like Ultimate Team Draft, because the riches on offer can help them fund their clubs towards the most valuable players in the game, and having access to an exceptionally good draft makes these players difficult to beat. Anybody who manages to overcome this challenge legitimately will have most certainly earned it. I consider myself to be good at FIFA, and it took me 14 attempts, which is evidence to this testimony.
The "FUT 50" trophy, awarded for having a player score their 50th goal for the club in FIFA Ultimate Team, is self-explanatory, though could take a while. The best method is to build a squad around a striker you obtain within your starter packs from the very beginning, and make sure you're playing him in every game possible. This will be quicker in offline cups, because some of the lower standard tournaments, where the difficulty setting is capped at a lower standard, are very easy to not only win games in, but also score lots of goals, giving you ample opportunities to tally them up. If you want the more challenging route, which is what I opted for, you can play online cups or seasons, which is harder as you scale up to into better leagues and tournaments, but ultimately just takes a bit of time.
Winning the online draft is certainly one of the toughest individual challenges in any FIFA game to date. Despite some of the earlier FIFA games yielding very high scores, due to containing some incredibly time-consuming trophies, they seldom involved anything that constituted as a genuine test of skill, bar the odd trophy ("Ton Up" from FIFA 10, for example). They were just incredibly time consuming bordering on the realms of insanity, so this rating is based mostly on challenge alone.
Without the "The Invincibles" trophy, this list is a 3/10 in difficulty at the very most. Whilst the online draft was still a challenge worthy of cranking up the difficulty rating a few notches, it was a much more welcome challenge than sitting there for hours trying to trigger the "Extra Effort" trophy from FIFA 15, and considering the habit EA have of mirroring trophies year on year, and the outside possibility this could have re-appear at any point, I would consider this a good thing all in all.
FIFA 17 to follow.
Notable Trophies -
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| The Invincibles - Win all 4 matches in an Online FUT Draft session in FIFA Ultimate Team FUT 50 - Have a player score their 50th goal at the club in FIFA Ultimate Team |
The Invincibles
Win all 4 matches in an Online FUT Draft session in FIFA Ultimate Team
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