Last week, a football from Electronic Arts unconditionally dominated in the regions of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Mostly due to large discounts on Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday.

A grand update against this background seems to be the new “player archetypes.” EA Sports divided the players into several categories and for each created several prepared animations. This is the first part where height and weight affect the speed, behavior and movements of the character: depending on their physical data, players move, jump and wave their arms differently. EA invented a way to personalize football players that solves a lot of old problems, like reactive defenders who used to run at the same speed as wingers.

“Archetypes” completely change the behavior of the player with the ball, his style of conducting and working with the body. It is these animation presets that distinguish the heroes from each other that create unique cases on the field that resemble real situations in football. True, they were not applied to the women’s teams: there everyone plays the same way.