The gameplay is clunky, unresponsive, and endlessly frustrating. Player reactions are delayed, the AI behaves randomly, and goalkeepers swing wildly between being unstoppable gods and total amateurs. Collisions make no sense, passes go anywhere but where you aim, and the constant reuse of old animations completely kills immersion. Nothing about it feels like real football.
The game modes are just as disappointing. Career Mode has been stagnant for years, with no meaningful innovation, slow and poorly designed menus, and the same tired features recycled again and again. Ultimate Team has fully turned into a microtransaction nightmare, where actual gameplay clearly comes second to pushing players to spend more money. The balance is awful and encourages the same broken, exploit-heavy playstyles every single year.
On a technical level, it’s a disaster. Bugs everywhere, frequent crashes, unstable servers, broken matchmaking… For a company with EA’s budget and resources, this is completely inexcusable. This is a billion-dollar franchise, not an indie project made by a handful of developers.
The developers and producers behind this mess should be ashamed. The game feels rushed, lazy, and cynical — designed purely to maximize profit with no care for quality, football, or the community. EA Sports FC 26 isn’t just a bad game; it’s a perfect example of everything that’s wrong with modern sports games. Avoid at all costs.