This list is split into 2 distinct areas of focus, including the FIFA Street World Tour and the Multi-Player online mode.
The World Tour trophies cover most of this games list, with a host of progression based trophies for marching through and winning games at all 4 stages in the tour.
You get awarded trophies for "beating" each of the 4 stages (Regional, National, European and Global) culminating in the "World Grand Champion" trophy, awarded for winning stage 4 of the World Tour.
Winning a stage just means you have to unlock the final tournament of the stage, by earning enough ranking points (through placing high in tournaments), to reach the top 8 of the team standings, and even though the World Tour mode is large and expansive, you don't need to compete in every single event in order to take on the final tournament. This lessens the overall completion time of the World Tour significantly, since beating every single event isn't a necessity to unlock all of the trophies on offer, however for trophies such as "Mighty Heroes", awarded for having a team of 8 created players that are level 50 or higher, you'll need to slog through a fair amount of events/tournaments anyway in order to hit level 50 with 8 players, so even though it isn't compulsory to compete in every event, it's encouraged to compete in as many as possible, in order to unlock the trophies that require a certain amount of accumulation.
Even with the minimum amount of events/tournaments played, you can still probably expect to sink 15-20 hours into the World Tour mode. The hardest difficulty setting, which isn't influenced by the trophies, is actually quite a solid test, and getting all the way through to stage 4 of the World Tour will still require you beat a handful of tournaments and events along the way. Couple that with some of the longer winded trophies on the side, and it's a pretty extensive game mode that requires a solid chunk of time to complete.
Slightly tied into the World Tour is the "Globetrotter" trophy, awarded for winning a match/event in every venue, and although you'll be able to fulfil most of the criteria through the various venues you visit in World Tour mode, there are a small selection of venues that are only available in Hit the Streets mode or Online, which is definitely something to look out for, especially if you're still missing the trophy when you think you may have won a game in every venue.
There's also no in-game checklist or tracker relating to which venues you've won a game at already, and with just over 40 venues in total, it is alot to keep track of, so a physical checklist of some sort is the only way to keep score on which venues you've managed to win at and which ones you have remaining. It's also important to note you do need to win a game at every venue, and not just merely play a match there, a small but very significant detail that definitely shouldn't be overlooked.
The Multi-Player portion of this list is where the true challenge of the game comes out, with the "Online Dominance" trophy, awarded for winning all 9 Online cups, being, by far, the hardest trophy in this entire list.
The cups consist of 4 knock-out rounds, and are rotated in selection on a weekly basis, spanning a 9 week period for just the weekend, meaning you have roughly a 3 day period where you can win a tournament and unlock the cup for progress towards the trophy. This means missing out on a cup for just 1 week makes this Platinum completion time a minimum of 9 weeks, since you'll have to wait for the cycle to come round full circle and allow you to enter the tournament again.
Thankfully, it never happened to me, but with this sort of set-up, it makes it much more difficult and adds alot of pressure on players to win the cups so they don't miss the small window of opportunity each week. Some of the cups are incredibly difficult to win aswell, with score-fests of 5 and 6 a-side meaning games can go either way, and the naturally low scoring Futsal tournaments could see you concede just 1 goal and lose a game. Every tournament is straight knock-out format too, meaning you'll also need to be prepared to repeat tournaments multiple times before you win them, and even accept that you might not even win them within the allotted time window.
Not only do you need to be very good at the game, as you're bound to come across some decent players, but you'll also need to make up the time consistently each week to devote yourself to this trophy, which, in many respects, is probably harder than actually winning the cups themselves. It is easily one of the toughest Gold trophies I've ever earned.
The Multi-Player mode does offer a handful of other trophies too, but these are mostly just around community/sharing based trophies, which are very easy to achieve in contrast.
Quick mention to the "Who bought the snacks?" trophy, awarded for winning a tournament with a local Co-op player. Another one of those awkward trophies that requires you to own 2 controllers to unlock.
All in all, despite being a medium sized list, this is a tough Platinum to obtain. The World Tour is lengthy, and if played on the hardest difficulty setting, a pretty challenging venture, despite the fact you don't even need to compete in every single event to unlock all the trophies on offer.
However, the Multi-Player is where this game's difficulty truly excels, with the "Online Dominance" trophy providing one of the toughest challenges of any game to date. In total, you're looking at around 30-35 hours to unlock everything, though because of the "Online Dominance" trophy, the game still requires a minimum commitment of 9 weeks, providing you don't miss out on any cup windows at any point.
The Gold trophies are the ones that do the real damage here, and it definitely keeps up the standard of FIFA games and difficult trophy lists.
Notable Trophies -
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| World Grand Champion - Win Stage 4 of World Tour Globetrotter - In any game mode win a match/event in every venue Online Dominance - Win all 9 online cups Who bought the snacks? - Win a tournament with a local Co-Op player |
Online Dominance
Win all 9 Online Cups
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