
Patches of the crowd will wear the colours of your squad The UI and broadcast elements like instant replays have also been given a World Cup overhaul. Or perhaps he’ll wax historical about a particular nation’s football traditions.įlags fill every square inch of the Russian stadiums, national anthems preclude the first whistle, and cameras will cut to fans with faces painted with the colours of your selected country. The same commentators are present, though Martin Tyler will occasionally lament the plight of South American countries with skilled players fighting for limited spots. The crowd, commentary, and broadcast format is all reskinned to be a World Cup presentation. What’s Been Changed?Īside from the tournament structure, this is mostly a cosmetic update. Shoehorning in a country that narrowly missed out on qualifying is an option, too. You can even customise the tournament to represent World Cup tournaments of yesteryear. After so many years in the cold, managing your own brackets for exhibition matches, the new World Cup DLC takes care of everything for you. The DLC will be available to download on the 29th of May. Now that EA brings a significant portion of its revenue through the Ultimate Team mode, it’s able to provide a World Cup tournament format as FIFA 18 DLC - and offer separate World Cup versions of its Ultimate Team cards.

The modes and methods were deliberately absent, as EA looked to its separate World Cup and Champions League releases to increase revenue from the same engine. In times past, it was agonisingly difficult to create a World Cup or Champions League tournament experience in an annual FIFA game.
