This year's big new mode is the FIFA 23 from anqilan's blog

That's not a dig at modern FIFA--I have thoroughly enjoyed 19 and it is comfortably my most-played game of the past 10 months FIFA 23 coins. Rather it's both a compliment to FIFA 23 and a comment on the diminishing returns developers face when making annual games. Despite five years of tweaks, gameplay improvements, a whole new development engine, and new modes like The Journey, we're not that much further ahead.

This year's big new mode is the FIFA 23-like Volta, which, on first impression, seems like a deep and engaging addition to the series' portfolio. Once you've built your custom player-character, you're presented with a world map showing a number of locations you can visit. These places are the battlegrounds that host various types of street football, and they include London, Tokyo, and Rio de Janeiro, among a bunch of others. 

You can then travel to these locales to partake in Story matches and city-specific events--some of which can be played against friends' teams even when they're offline. Your team in these modes is made of fake characters created specifically for the mode--though the story mode contains some real-life street footballers as 'boss fights.' There's also a Volta Kick-Off submode that allows you to play small-sided matches--3v3 up to 5v5--with players from licensed professional teams like Man Utd or Real Madrid.

Elsewhere, Volta borrows heavily from Ultimate Team: players are represented by cards, whose chemistry is affected by the position you place them in and the formation you decide to play. Your team's chemistry will also change depending on the type of court they prefer compared to the one they're playing on--the presence or lack of solid walls on the outer edge, for example, makes quite a large difference to how a game plays out and to the tactics you can exploit. 

The mode also contains weekly challenges and deep customization options, the latter of which are represented in Overwatch-style fashion by different colors and labels denoting, for example, Epic, Legendary buy FUT 23 coins, or Common rarity items. EA says these items are purchasable using in-game currency only, with no microtransactions present at launch.