PS5

EA Sports FC 24

SimulatorSport

Time to beat: about 38.7 hours

Overview

EA Sports FC 24 is an association football-themed simulation video game developed by EA Vancouver and EA Romania and published by EA Sports. It is the inaugural installment in the EA Sports FC series, succeeding the FIFA video game series after Electronic Arts's partnership with FIFA concluded with FIFA 23. EA Sports FC 24 is the 31st overall installment of EA Sports' football simulation games, and was released on 29 September 2023 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

HyperMotion technology was first introduced in FIFA 22, with EA touting the HyperMotion V technology used in EA Sports FC 24 as the "biggest leap forward"; promotion for the game highlighted the feature prominently. Volumetric data from 180 matches featuring predominantly English and Spanish professional men's and women's teams was used in developing the technology. It is used only in the regular version of the game, available on Windows for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and Series S.

The match data was collected from "cameras around the stadiums", meaning the in-game figures would move more like their real-life counterparts, and was also used to train EA Sports FC's proprietary machine learning algorithms. The machine learning used the data to learn what realistic footballing movement is like, and how to recreate it in other figures. The cameras captured all players on the pitch at once, further informing team movement for the game, as well as ball physics. As well as the cameras, EA used data recorded by StretchSense gloves worn by (outfield) players to record data on how hands moved while playing, training the game's AI on this.

EA Sports FC 24 received "generally favorable" reviews, on review aggregator Metacritic.