FIFA 16 delivers on the features you've grown accustomed to while subtly tweaking and enhancing the peripherals. Plus the long-overdue addition of women's national teams completes a curiously blind spot in the game's lineage: Finally, the likes of Celia Sasic, Carli Lloyd and Eugenie Le Sommer get the placement they deserve in the virtual world. Let's get the basics out of the way first. The usual features are there as you've come to expect from the long-running series: all the major leagues (hello, Scottish Premiership!) are included along with all the usual national teams, domestic trophies, club competitions and game modes.

There have been some improvements, but again these come with caveats. The more aggressive defensive AI means that the midfield is, unlike Arsenal's, no longer there to look pretty. Build up play now takes time, with sloppy passes met with quick interceptions as defenders are now more willing to take advantage of poor play. This can be countered somewhat with the new bullet pass, but this new feature is a double-edged sword: all other passes now feel far slower, and also it's all-too-rare that players are ready to control the ball. If like most pundits you don't see Theo Walcott as a natural finisher, for example, you can work on that aspect of his game, eventually improving stats after weeks spent on the training ground.

Participating in increasingly popular pre-season tournaments is another nice touch, and with prizes of up to seven and a half million quid on the line, they're a genuinely useful way to increase the transfer kitty. Even now, it still fifa 16 coins traders has some clear advantages over other sports sims. No sports sim outside of Football Manager has a more flexible and elegant manager mode than FIFA, which organically introduces storylines that turn every transfer window into high drama. I thought I was done with it after a six season binge in FIFA 15, but moving the MLS and Liga MX to Europe so that I could get them into the Champions League sucked me back in. It has a fantastic sim engine, letting you play around with a wide range of what-ifs like, "What if the LA Galaxy were in the Premier League?" For the record, they finished in last place, but not before a run to fifa coins traders the quarterfinal of the FA Cup and a win over Tottenham, which is the Spurs-iest thing I've ever seen in a video game.