But if you coasted through the last game on that basis, FIFA 18 is going to require a few hours of diligent retraining. In FIFA 17, you could practically let the AI deal with defending, since it was eerily good at it. Most notable to most grizzled FIFA veterans will be the return to much more player responsibility when defending. If it had hard-cut to the X-Files theme here we’d be looking at a 10/10.įIFA 18 isn’t packed with banner headline new features over 17 (in fact the marketing was tellingly quiet in that area), but it does bring some significant changes to how the game actually plays.