Quelle surprise, Ultimate Team has received the greatest amount of attention. In addition, the team training mode I've been looking for FIFA 23 Coins has arrived with FUT Moments. Moments offers bite-size pockets of FIFA gameplay that reward players with challenging challenges that examine your form and find out how the various cards work together.

It's early doors, but there's tantalising scope to follow the career of players and recreate the most memorable moments from football's history by using this kind of mode. The current selection contains highlights from the golden years that included Jurgen Klopp as well as Kylian Mbappe, but in next year's game it'd be fascinating to see what EA's team will do alongside other legendary footballers like Pele and "King" Kazuyoshi Miura.

Elsewhere, there are sweeping changes to the Chemistry system. Chemistry does not have to be influenced by a player's location within the formation in relation to other players, a change that enables greater variation across countries and leagues. I'm not convinced that it will alter the strategy of any player It's nice to know that you can add wildcard players and have more opportunities to connect them with top division players.

Searching for the ideal midfielder that can achieve that coveted "33" chemistry, feels much like it's a Squad Building Challenge now, that's a bit of a deliberate. The Squad Building Challenges can be a fine way to lose a few hours doing frankly nothing, but EA's'sudoku for football nerds' best played via the companion app, away from Ultimate Team's sluggish console menus.

As a dark signpost of the licensing fights to come, FIFA has lost the J1 League license this year and that meant there was no King Kazu. The result was a shift to an intriguing Bronze and Silver Australian A League team, featuring the feared attack force from Hibs winger Martin Boyle and the aptly named David Ball. As with last year's team my team, which was my least favorite, caused some angry quits from rivals sporting million-coin outfits that exposed Ultimate Team as a gilded farce.

It was still a bit of a guilt of a double-digit loss when the pros caught me out, though. The more players started rolling in, I realised that playing three at the back is a quick method to overcome a deficit of 3-0 if the opponent's wingers have at least a little speed (as they often do). Overall, it's par for the course as far as the online game is concerned as well as fidgety twitching and high emotions FUT 23 Coins buy across all sides; it's FIFA that we are all familiar with, in its most frustrating form.