@PRO_TOO I find it really hard to "get deep" into what I feel about either next-gen FIFA, because I just can't get past an overall feeling of "weird" / "alien".
Trying to see past that and make comparisons... I find it almost impossible because that "core feel" is the same.
It's so many things at once - the skating, the jelly legs, the instant alien-level responsiveness to your input, the ball that flies like a rocket on simple ground passes one second and then drags like a bowling ball the next, the attributes making no difference (at least not to AI-controlled players, which is 90.9% of your team and 100% of the AI-controlled team), huge (and obvious) issues designed to ensure the right result (e.g. goalkeepers diving AWAY from the ball)...
Trying to nail that all down into a few words is really difficult.
With all that going on, I can't appreciate what's good. I know it's there, but while I'm trying to see it, I'm controlling an octopus on rollerskates with a ball that floats like a shopping bag in the wind when I shoot (sometimes). It's all so... Weird. Weird is the only word.