With FIFA 23 being released around the world this week, fans of the game have been in awe at just how good the graphics are in the latest instalment of EA Sports’ flagship franchise.
Images and screenshots have been circulating on social media demonstrating the incredible detail of the high-resolution face scans. The next-gen technology implemented to make the final edition game’s partnership with world soccer’s governing body, before it rebrands to become EA Sports FC next year, is truly breathtaking.
Behold, for example, how accurately every single beard hair on Lionel Messi‘s face is reproduced in pixel form.
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FIFA 23 graphics 🤯
(via @EASPORTSFIFA) pic.twitter.com/bfAoKU7LoR
— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) September 25, 2022
And marvel at the level of microscopic mapping, with the in-game lighting effects also tweaked to allow players to study each individual pore on Karim Benzema‘s glinting forehead.
Karim Benzema in FIFA 23 😳🔥 pic.twitter.com/82UILYuBVJ
— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) September 26, 2022
However, not everybody is quite so bowled over by the player likenesses on display. Indeed, the wife of Benfica defender Lucas Verissimo was left incandescent after stumbling across the avatar used to depict her husband in FIFA 23.
Que coisa feia é essa? KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK NÃO CASEI C UM HOMEM FEIO NÃO https://t.co/q5FFUsw0Bx
— Amanda Verissimo (@oimandverissimo) September 27, 2022
Amanda Verissimo commented on a tweet shared by a fan which exclaimed they “didn’t know whether to laugh or cry” about the Brazilian centre-back’s distinctly unflattering player model.
“What is this ugly thing? I didn’t marry an ugly man,” she exclaimed in sheer horror.
For the record, here’s what the 27-year-old Brazilian actually looks like.
