EA Sports FC 25 guide hub with tips for Ultimate Team, Career Mode and more
Jul. 17, 2024Get essential tips for every part of the game in our EA FC 25 guide hub
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Our FC 25 guide hub is picking up pace as Christmas approaches, and footy obsessives sink deeper into the latest FIFA follow-up. Ultimate Team is the focus as ever, but there are new elements to enjoy too – such as brilliant five-on-five mode Rush. Whether you’re an FC noob or have been playing since the Mega Drive days, there’s loads of intel stashed here on those favourites, career mode, skills moves and more. It’s all found in your comprehensive FC 25 guide hub.
EA Sports FC 25 review
Pondering a purchase? Then you clearly need to know how the ‘new FIFA’ (even though it’s not officially called FIFA anymore) plays. Read our verdict on Rush, career more tweaks, Ultimate Team innovations and all-important gameplay changes in GR’sFC 25 review.
If you’re looking for general help across the board, ourFC 25 tipsguide should be your first port of call. It introduces you to Rush mode and bronze pack method, and contains two vital mini catalogues: the FC 25 best young players list, and FC 25 fastest players list.
Building on the big innovation ofFC 24 PlayStyles, EA introduces a strategic feature calledFC 25 Player Rolesthis time around. They dictate how every individual team member moves both on and off the ball – and you can see them all by clicking that link.
Spanish man-mountain Rodri endured a disastrous start to the real season by picking up a terrible knee injury, but theFC 25 ratingslist brought a crumb of consolation. As you can see by hitting that link, he joins Kylian Mbappe, Erling Haaland and Aitani Bonmati on a huge new OVR of 91.
It wouldn’t be a fresh FC entry without new flicks and spins to bamboozle defences, and this year we get four: Big Feint, Stop and Go, Step Over Ball and Toe Drag Stepover. Find out how to do those, plus all the old favorites, in GR’sFC 25 skill movesguide.
Just as it does with skill moves, EA loves to sprinkle in fresh ways to toast your latest 25-yard humdinger – or last-minute tap-in. There are more than a dozen this year, including the return of the controversial cup of tea. View them all in ourFC 25 celebrationsguide.
In a welcome surprise, we get three new EFL Championship grounds to enjoy, belonging to Bristol City, Coventry City, and Blackburn Rovers. Other new additions include Fenerbahce, Galatasaray and Feyenoord. See the full ten on ourFC 25 stadiums list.
One innovation this year is being able to earn XP – or SP, as EA calls it – across all modes, to unlock rewards for FUT, career, and Pro Clubs. However, the major rewards here, such as Adama Traore and a loan Gareth Bale card, are for use in Ultimate Team. You can see them all on theFC 25 Season 1 ladder playerslist.
RTTK stands for Road To The Knockouts, and sees players such as Jude Bellingham and Ollie Watkins earn upgrades depending on how their respective clubs perform in European competition. Harry Kane and Virgil Van Dijk also get new cards. Keep up with their ratings on theFC 25 RTTK tracker.
Brand new promos are always welcome, and the Rush mode enabled EA to deliver one such campaign in early October. TheFC 25 Total Rush trackerfeatures a host of OP cards. While they aren’t upgradable, the fact that some are earned by playing five-a-side to earn XP is a welcome innovation.
Player Roles and PlayStyles are important, but Ultimate Team also enables you to customise ratings to your own liking. How? UsingFC 25 chemistry styles. The likes of Hawk, Anchor and Hunter tweak specific attributes to make key individual players even more deadly.
Knowing the most fashionable Ultimate Team strips functions on two levels. It enables you to look great on the pitch – naturally – and can also be a clever way of bringing in extra FUT coins, by flipping popular cards onto the transfer market. Ogle the prettiest in ourFC 25 best kitsguide.
It’s all change for the mode that dominated FIFA before Ultimate Team came along. New this year are women’s teams, the ability to improve your wonderkids using Rush tournaments, a sim gameplay option, and plenty more. Master the ways of the dugout with GR’sFC 25 career modeguide.
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