14 DAY TRIAL // The development team at EA Sports is announcing that a new Team of the Week for the Ultimate Team mode in FIFA 16 is coming in time for Christmas, with gamers able to get access to some of the players who left their mark on the game during the recent matches that involve their clubs.
The biggest players featured in the new package are two of the Real Madrid players who managed to score in the ten goal bonanza over the weekend, Gareth Bale, regaining his rhythm after a less-than-superb period, and Benzema.
For the attacking line of the Team of the Week, EA Sports has selected the French strikes alongside Mandzukic, who performs well in the box, and Jonas, able to offer more speed and movement.
The midfield department of any player-created team can benefit from the services of Bale, Praet, Ozil and Verrati, all of them creative players with an ability to unlock an opposition defense with a pass.
The defensive line that's coming to FIFA 16 includes the likes of Smith, Daniel Ayala, and Beugelsduk.
The EA Sports selected goalkeeper is Ruffier, a relative unknown with sold shop stopping abilities.
The Team of the Week package also includes seven classic substitutes, all of them solid players that can be used to plug holes in a first eleven but will probably end up being sold to power the purchase of bigger stars.
As it has done since the early days of FIFA 16, the studio is also delivering an extra five footballers that gamers can choose to use for their line-ups, selected because they have impressed in their recent club activity.
FIFA 16 is preparing for a busy January 2016
In December, EA Sports delivered a new title update for the football simulator that tweaked some mechanics linked to player positioning as well as the way referees behave at certain points in the game and how they award cards.
The community is also asking the studio to improve the physics engine and to make sure that passing is more accurate.
More tweaks to the FIFA 16 engine might be introduced in late January via another patch that's synchronized to arrive at the same time as a bigger update to the roster of all the included teams, designed to take into account the transfers that each of them will make during the January window.
EA Sports is also sure to use the occasion to introduce changes to the stats of a wide variety of players, making sure that the video game performance reflects the way they have behaved on real-world pitches during the last few months.
EA Sports is also continuing to run tournaments for FIFA 16 using the Ultimate Team mode and its newer Draft spin-off and in 2016, we might see more events designed to keep the player base engaged with the sim.
A new title in the series is already in development at the studio, but information about it will probably only be offered in late spring or during E3 2016.
It's #TOTW15 with IF @GarethBale11, SIF @MesutOzil1088,SIF @Benzema and IF Verratti! #FUT pic.twitter.com/aKAKJJVQS4
— EA SPORTS FIFA (@EASPORTSFIFA) December 23, 2015