I’ve been knocking a virtual football around a preview build of FIFA 22 on PlayStation 5 this week, and I have to say the gameplay has impressed me.
EA Sports, as it often does, has come up with marketing buzzwords to slap on new gameplay features. This year, for FIFA 22 on PS5 and Xbox Series X and S (but not last-gen console or PC, much to the annoyance of PC gamers), it’s HyperMotion, which sounds a bit like a Ubisoft free-to-play shooter.
HyperMotion is two things, really, each with their own buzzword titles: Xsens and ML – Flow. EA Sports motion captured an actual 11v11 match, with each real-life player wearing an Xsens suit. The idea was to get better, more realistic, more energetic animations in the game. ML – Flow is the machine learning part of HyperMotion. It works out in real-time how to animate better based on all the data fed into it.
