The new default camera angle - meant to mirror what we see on TV - helps sell the scale of each arena as it swings up and down the pitch. It's still a shame, but you're looking at players from a distance most of the time anyway, and at a distance, FIFA 21 looks immaculate.
Is it fair to say that FIFA 21 actually has the best hair that we've ever seen in a video game? We can't say for sure - the animation's so good that it's kind of distracting - but it's certainly up there.īut let's be honest, the fact that rising Liverpool star Curtis Jones has a pure nightmare face in FIFA 21 doesn't impact the game a great deal. Whether it's Edinson Cavani leaping into the air for a towering header, or Alisson Becker diving to the far post to save an otherwise certain goal, individual strands of hair move almost exactly as they should. EA Sports has implemented some kind of mystifying hair tech which sees long locks flow in an eerily realistic manner. You know what impressed us even more than the tiny little tattoos on Neymar's neck, though? The hair. Okay, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the point.
The level of detail on some players is borderline obsessive we spent a good few minutes just orbiting the camera around Roberto Firmino's ultrarealistic noggin, coming to the conclusion that the eccentric Brazilian striker probably looks more authentic in FIFA 21 than he does in real life. Sure, you can still pick out those weirdly wooden player animations from time to time, but at a glance, it looks like the real deal. Without question, FIFA 21 on PS5 is the most realistic looking soccer sim ever made. Let's start with the most obvious improvement: the graphics.