FIFA 16’s soundtrack will keep you entertained with a series of catchy up-tempo tunes when perusing the menu. If you really get into it then you can go listen to it via the Spotify playlist that EA Sports has created for it. Moving players while they have the ball in any direction now feels much more natural than ever before and is truly a 360 degree experience. This makes for some nice quick cuts past defenders and pullbacks when needed. Anyway, let’s start with defensive minded full backs - and here we have some good news. Back in FIFA 15, defensive minded full backs were basically mispositioned centre backs - extremely slow but with excellent tackling stats.

 

Now, however, that seems to have been fixed. In FIFA 16 they have decent (but not usually amazing) pace, hovering around the late 60s and early 70s (and mid 70s if you’re lucky). As well as that, their strength is usually fairly good and their technical stats are quite well balanced between attack and defence. In other words, they’re a bit more like real full backs (albeit slightly lacking in pace). In FIFA 15 it was impossible to find realistic full backs - you either got mispositioned centre backs or mispositioned wingers. Now, however, EA seem to have fixed that.

 

Ultimate Team is the most popular game mode of FIFA franchise. FIFA 16 Ultimate Team, or FUT 16 as it is commonly called, is a free-to-play extension of FIFA 16 where you can try to build the team of our dreams. It is like owning your very own fantasy team. It is always an unfinished project. You will be always finding new goals to achieve: testing other players, trying a new formation, winning a tournament, etc…The game never ends. Ultimate Team is not only about creating unique squads with the players that you like. There is much more than that. You need to control several things to ensure the success of your club. Play two more full games and keep cranking up FIFA Trainer half-by-half and by the end you should have seen everything it has to offer.

 

Don't wade in like Paul Scholes, kicking indiscriminately. Before you get stuck into FIFA 16's meatier game modes, you're going to want to master some of its brand new passing and defending techniques, and the best way to do this is to play a few Friendlies with the new FIFA Trainer feature switched on - think of them as pre-season warm-ups. With FIFA Trainer, button commands and prompts appear above the player you're controlling, but it's a bit off-putting, so there's no point using it in games that actually matter. Your best bet is to click it on and set it to level one for the first half of a Friendly, followed by level two for the second half.

 

Flood Method: This method is a bit unfair because it takes advantage of newbies or those who don’t know the market very well! Go and buy 20/30 identical items and list them for a higher price than their usual at the same time. Works better with cards you can’t filter like manager leagues. Big Pack Openings: In the first hour of a new TOTW/TOTS or Special Packs release, people will list their opened packs items for very small prices and you have the chance to snatch stuff very cheap and sell them later for higher prices.

 

Do make sure to check out our Draft Mode guide for everything you need to know. In FIFA 16 Ultimate Team, your team chemistry can create the difference between winning and losing a game. The chemistry among players in this game mode is directed by factors such as player origin, the league in which he or she plays, and his or her current active club. One of the best ways to earn coins in FUT is by trading. It does not matter whether you have accumulated 200 coins or 200,000; you should never stop trading in the game.