It’s like playing as a group and having that free-form feel, putting down two shirts and having a quick game.” It’s in a park with your friends, or on the street or wherever. Instead, Turner and his team set out to “capture the spirit of that fun style, of playing the sport in a different way, and expand on that.” They’re aware that, “when people across the world get introduced to soccer, it’s usually not via 11-a-side. In Volta, for instance, you won’t see such fantastical elements as the unstoppable ‘gamebreaker’ shots that can set balls on fire in the FIFA Streetspinoff series. But although this is one of the “most requested things” in the fandom, the team at EA didn’t just want to copy what had come before. “People have been asking for FIFA Street for a long time,” says Turner, who is working as Narrative Creative Director on FIFA 20. You’ll have more luck stringing skill-filled attacks together to dumbfound all your opponents. If it’s a ‘sweaty’ goal like that which you’re aiming for (as the kids apparently say), the keeper will stop it almost every time. For example, passing across the goal in search of an easy tap-in isn’t quite so simple when the posts are this close together. The controls are mostly the same, although you will see some little changes: with no slide-tackling, for instance, you have the option of a big lunging tackle instead of the usual leg-breaker.Īlso, you might need to modify your playstyle to succeed in this new format. And although it was a bit surreal to see Spurs taking on Birmingham at a 5-a-side pitch in sunny Brazil, it wasn’t difficult to get to grips with this new way of playing.

The new street soccer mode, Volta, was being shown off in a big way, with EA’s Matt Turner on hand for interviews.īefore sitting down with Turner, we played a quick Volta match against the computer.

At the Gamescom 2019 conference in Cologne, Den of Geek popped over to the EA lounge to gets some hands-on time with FIFA 20.

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