Introducing EA SPORTS VOLTA FOOTBALL in FIFA 20
Get ready to Break New Ground in EA SPORTS™ VOLTA FOOTBALL when FIFA 20 launches September 27 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Giving you an authentic street football experience, VOLTA FOOTBALL provides you with the tools to express yourself both on and off the court.
What is EA SPORTS VOLTA FOOTBALL?
VOLTA — meaning ‘to return’ in Portuguese — takes the game back to the streets with an authentic small-sided football experience. VOLTA FOOTBALL moves you from the roar of the stadium to the rhythm of the streets in football playgrounds all over the world as you build your player, pick your gear, and express your own personal style.
Gameplay
Express your style in VOLTA FOOTBALL with a custom-built gameplay system grounded in football realism. Inspired by the authentic small-sided form of football played in streets, cages, and futsal courts across the world; VOLTA FOOTBALL gameplay immerses you in the flow of the street with new tools including simplified flicks and skill moves, new flair animations, and even the option to use the wall to your advantage.
Find out more about VOLTA FOOTBALL as Producer Jeff Antwi speaks to Rio Ferdinand and Chelcee Grimes
Customisation
VOLTA FOOTBALL gives you countless ways to customise and personalise your player. From how they dress, to their hairstyle and tattoos, and new celebratory emotes, create your male or female player and showcase them across the various game modes in VOLTA FOOTBALL.
Gear
Show off your style in VOLTA FOOTBALL by equipping your player with the latest vanity items ranging from shirts, shoes, and sweaters to different tattoos and hairstyles. Unlock more vanity items as you progress through VOLTA FOOTBALL by completing in-game challenges.
Locations
VOLTA FOOTBALL brings football playgrounds from all over the globe to life. From an underpass in Amsterdam, to a neighbourhood cage in London, to a Tokyo rooftop, VOLTA FOOTBALL lets you taste the regional experience of the global game.
Play it your way
Customisation is at the centre of the way you play VOLTA FOOTBALL. Play 3v3 Rush (No GK’s), 4v4, 4v4 Rush, 5v5 and Professional Futsal. In addition, VOLTA FOOTBALL offers different sizes of arenas and environments with and without walls, giving you the freedom to play the beautiful game the way you want.
VOLTA FOOTBALL modes:
- VOLTA KICK-OFF: Take your favourite professional teams back to the streets and compete in a number of VOLTA FOOTBALL locations and match formats. Play PSG vs. Lyon in Paris, the Madrid derby in the streets of Spain, or Chelsea vs. Spurs in a London cage.
- VOLTA WORLD: Build up your VOLTA FOOTBALL team by playing through Single Player Matches against community generated squads in a variety of formats and locations. After each victory, recruit a player from the opposing team and build your squad up in terms of both skill and chemistry.
- VOLTA STORY MODE: Take your unique player through a narrative driven experience, where you face off against various legends of street football from around the world.
Earn rewards, customise your player, and recruit for your squad, culminating in the VOLTA FOOTBALL World Championship tournament in Buenos Aires. - VOLTA LEAGUE: Play your way through promotion and relegation with the online VOLTA LEAGUE. The new player versus player formats places your team against others online, where wins lead to promotion into a higher division.
Pre-order* the FIFA 20 Champions or Ultimate Edition now to play VOLTA FOOTBALL three days early ahead of the global launch on September 27. Be the First to Play FIFA 20 on September 19 with EA Access on PlayStation®4 (coming this July) and Xbox One, and Origin Access on PC. Find out more about EA Access and Origin Access.
We’ll have more details to share later in the Summer. In the meantime stay tuned to the @EASPORTSFIFA Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter channels for all the latest FIFA 20 news.
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FIFA 20 Volta guide: tips, controls, and how to play online and climb the Volta League ranks
FIFA 20 Volta Football is the big new addition to EA’s football series: it’s a FIFA-street style mode with small pitches, small teams and no shortage of step-overs.
It’s spread across multiple sub-modes, including a singleplayer story akin to The Journey from previous games, as well as an online multiplayer league where you climb through divisions, similar to the Seasons online section of the main game.
FIFA 20 Volta Football is more than just a scaled-down version of the beautiful game, and you’ll have a new set of rules to learn, new controls to master, and a long list of cosmetic items to unlock as you customise the character you’ve created.
On this page:
- FIFA 20 Volta Football rules
- FIFA 20 Volta Football sub-modes: Volta Story, Volta League and Volta Tour
- How FIFA 20 Volta Football controls differ from the main game
- How team and character growth works in FIFA 20 Volta Football
- FIFA 20 Volta Football unlocks: how to earn cosmetics and Volta Coins
- Tips for winning at FIFA 20 Volta Football, whether you’re playing the CPU or other players
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FIFA 20 Volta Football rules explained
Volta Football doesn’t have one set format: rather, you’ll be playing 3v3, 4v4 or 5v5 games on pitches of varying sizes.
Some of those pitches have walls that you can bounce the ball off, while others have regular white lines, with kick-ins when the ball goes out of bounds.
The full list of formats is:
- 3v3 Rush (no set goalkeeper, small goals)
- 4v4 Rush (no set goalkeeper, small goals)
- 4v4 Street (set goalkeeper, larger goals)
- 5v5 Street (set goalkeeper, larger goals)
- 5v5 Futsal (larger goals, different rule set)
Depending on the rule set of the tournament you’re playing, games are either timed matches with three-minute halves, or they’re won by the team who scores a specific number of goals first: usually five. If you draw a Rush game, play will restart and the next goal wins. In Street and Futsal, drawn matches trigger extra time, which is one minute each way. If it’s still a draw, you go to penalties.
You can’t slide tackle in Volta Football, but you can still foul. If you bundle into an opponent, play resumes from a nearby spot, and unlike a normal freekick you’re allowed to dribble the stationary ball right away (the exception is Futsal, which we’ll describe in a second).
In Rush formats there are no penalties, and fouls near the goal will restart play further back up the pitch. Rush games also don’t have corners: if the opponent kicks the ball behind, you’ll get it back at your goal.
Futsal has its own, slightly different set of rules. Free kicks are the same as in 11-a-side, and you can take direct shots at goal using the free kick system from the main game. Penalties are awarded for accumulated fouls: once you’ve committed five fouls, the enemy gets a spot kick for every foul thereafter. The count resets at the end of a half.
FIFA 20 Volta sub-modes explained: online Volta Story, Volta League and Volta Tour
You can play exhibition Volta matches from the Kick Off menu, but most of the time you’ll be playing Volta in either Story, League or Tour modes.
Volta Story mode
For the singleplayer story, you create a custom character and join a failing street football team that’s trying to turn around its fortunes.
You’ll play through a series of tournaments, recruiting new players as you go. You can read Wes’s thoughts on the story in Eurogamer’s FIFA 20 review (in summary, it’s not great).
Volta League mode
The online multiplayer Volta League is basically another version of FIFA 20’s online Season mode: you start in the bottom division, and if you win enough games during a mini season, you get promoted. As long as you can win enough matches to get over the promotion threshold, you’ll keep rising through the ranks. You get relegated if you win too few matches.
Volta Tour mode
Volta Tour pits you against other player-made teams in knockout tournaments. It basically takes teams that players are using, and gives them to the CPU. Selecting Volta Tour will bring up one of a number of available tournaments, each with different entry requirements (such as overall player rating) and rule sets. You can also browse the world map and select from a longer list of tournaments if you don’t fancy the ones in Tour.
FIFA 20 Volta controls: kneeling headers and Volta skill moves explained
FIFA 20 Volta Football’s controls are largely the same as the main game, with a few important changes. The first is that skill moves are simplified: to perform a trick, you just hold the left and right triggers and move the left control stick in any direction. Your player will perform skills dependent on their skill rating. You can also perform skill moves with the right stick as normal, but the new system is a way to get tricky without memorising complex combos.
Volta Football also simplifies flicks: you just need to press in the right stick and choose a direction with the left stick. Depending on the selected player’s skill rating, you’ll perform one of a number of fancy flicks, potentially lifting the ball over your defender’s head. There’s an extra-fancy flick reserved for players with five-star skill ratings called the Catch and Spin. To pull it off, Hold the left trigger, press Square/Circle on PS4 or X/B on Xbox One, and then the pass button.
As mentioned previously, there are no slide tackles. That button is instead for ‘hard tackles’, which essentially make you lunge towards the opponent. They’re good for last ditch blocks. Speaking of, your players will generally try to get in the way of shots automatically, so you don’t need to worry about making them dive in front of goal.
On larger nets with keepers, shooting works the same way as it does in 11-a-side, but during Rush matches shooting is more or less manual, with very little assistance-in other words, it will go exactly where you’re aiming, which can make for some embarrassing misses.
Volta Football also adds taunts to FIFA 20, if you fancy rubbing your opponent’s nose in your brilliance. Just tap the right trigger sprint button while standing still, or the left bumper button if you’re on the ball. For the ultimate humiliation try a kneeling header, where you get on your hands and knees and head the ball into an empty net on a breakaway. Simply knock the right stick forward while holding down the left and right triggers.
Lastly, it’s worth noting that holding the left trigger and pressing pass, shoot or cross will force a flair move such as a rabona, but in Volta players will also try cheeky backheels without prompting, depending on the situation. You can spend skill points on the ‘Flair’ skill to increase the chances of your player pulling these moves off.
FIFA 20 Volta progression explained: how team and character growth works
As you progress through Volta, you’ll improve the stats of your created character and recruit new, better players to your team. Recruiting is easy: after every win, including in online multiplayer, you get to pick one player of the opposing team to join your team. If your squad is full, you can choose one player you want them to replace. You can recruit a handful of street football icons that pop up in the story.
As for your created character, their stats improve after every match, and the better you perform, the faster they’ll grow. Their archetype is determined by the height and body shape you chose in the character creator-small, skinny players are generally fast, big beefy ones are good at defending-as well as the skills you pick from the skill tree.
You earn skill points by playing in matches, and when you’ve accumulated enough you can pick different skills that modify your attributes.
The skill tree has three main branches, one each for attack, midfield and defence. You’ll have to unlock skills sequentially, moving down each branch as you gain more skill points. You can respec your character at any time, and spend points in all three main branches, if you want.
FIFA 20 Volta Football unlocks: how to earn cosmetics
As you play Volta you’ll start to unlock cosmetic items that you can apply to your character or anyone else on your team. Basic cosmetics-think plain white t-shirts and grey shorts-are available from the start, but the flashiest gear is locked behind challenges.
These challenges are organised into groups, and you beat each challenge in a sequence. For example, for the Founders group of cosmetics, the first challenge is to win two Volta Tour matches in a specific arena. Once you’ve cleared that, you can move onto the next challenge, which is to recruit a specific type of player.
You’ll have one challenge active from each group at any time, and every challenge rewards you with a single cosmetic. Naturally, the later challenges are harder, and have the coolest rewards.
Instead of playing through the challenges, you can pay Volta Coins to bypass them. You earn these coins after each match: you get some just for playing, but you get extra for winning and for getting a high match rating, as well as for featuring in the end-of-game highlight clip. You’ll get bonus coins whenever you win a tournament or a league in Volta League. You can also use coins to purchase duplicate items you’ve unlocked, in case you want your team to wear matching kits.
Each set of cosmetics is part of a timed ‘drop’: at the end of the drop, we’ll get a new set of items to unlock.
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FIFA 20 Volta tips: how to win vs the CPU or PvP
Playing Volta feels a bit like learning to play FIFA all over again. The tempo is faster, the space tighter, and positioning is more important than ever. Here are some quick tips to get you started:
FIFA 20 Volta tips
- Make sure you control off-ball defenders to cut out passing lanes-otherwise, you’re giving your opponent easy goals. Press the right bumper to apply pressure to the ball with another player.
- Learn a few skill moves by heart. The new quick skill system looks good, but the skills are less useful than those from the base game. Practice ball rolls in particular.
- Don’t worry too much about being flashy: your players will naturally add flair to their game. The fundamentals are much more important.
Don’t dive in. Never commit to a tackle unless you’re absolutely sure you can win the ball. It’s much better to just jockey than to let your opponent run pass. - Anticipate crossfield balls. It’s amazing how many goals you can score by selecting your striker and intercepting passes across the back line.
Exploit the numbers advantage. So often, games of Volta come down to which team can create favourable 2v1 or 3v2 match-ups. When you get one, take your time and pick the right pass. - On larger pitches, lofted through balls are very useful, especially if your opponent is pushing for a goal. Often, your striker will be left alone up front.
- Don’t rush.
Often, your opponent will be thinking three steps ahead too, and they’ll know which pass you plan to make. Lingering on the ball and waiting for them to move is often your best option. Likewise, simply dribbling with the analogue stick and making small turns can work wonders, because opponents will anticipate more elaborate skill moves. - Linked to that, learn to stop-and-go when you’re running down the wing. Most players will anticipate a cross, or expect you to turn backwards, leaving you free to run into space. Simply tap the left bumper to trap the ball, and then carry on-or you can simply turn 180 degrees and then immediately turn back.
- Never bring your keeper out: in Volta, they’ll slide uselessly when they leave the box.
- Don’t change your mentality until late in the game. Going ‘Attacking’ will leave you exposed at the back-and even if you’re three goals behind, you can score goals quickly in Volta. We’ve played in matches where both teams have scored more than 10 goals, so don’t panic.
- Experiment with your lineups. A player with a lower overall rating might actually boost your team chemistry because they’re a better fit for the formation you’re playing. Switch between formations to find the best combo.
Introducing EA SPORTS VOLTA FOOTBALL in FIFA 20
Get ready to break new ground in EA SPORTS VOLTA FOOTBALL with FIFA 20 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC starting September 27th. VOLTA FOOTBALL takes you into the world of street football and gives you the opportunity to express yourself both on and off the field.
What is EA SPORTS VOLTA FOOTBALL?
VOLTA (from the Portuguese for «return») brings football back to the streets and immerses you in a real futsal atmosphere. VOLTA FOOTBALL takes you from a roaring stadium to the rhythm of the streets — play venues around the world, create your player, choose your gear and show off your style.
Gameplay
VOLTA FOOTBALL’s all-new style of gameplay, based on football realism, gives you a lot of room to express yourself. The game mode is based on truncated lineup matches played on the streets, playgrounds and futsal halls around the world. Based on football realism, VOLTA FOOTBALL gameplay immerses players in the rhythm of the streets with new tools, including simplified feints and special moves, new animations of movements or the use of boards for dribbles.
Learn more about VOLTA FOOTBALL with Producer Jeff Antwi talking to Rio Ferdinand and Chelsea Grimes
Customization
VOLTA FOOTBALL opens up countless possibilities for changing and personalizing the player. Create your player — boy or girl — change his look (from clothes, hairstyles and tattoos to goal celebrations) and show him in a variety of VOLTA FOOTBALL modes.
Equipment
In VOLTA FOOTBALL, you can show off your own style by choosing all the accessories for your player: from clothes and shoes to tattoos and hairstyles. Unlock new accessories by completing challenges in VOLTA FOOTBALL modes.
Geography
VOLTA FOOTBALL lets you play in a variety of venues around the world. From a tunnel in Amsterdam to a barred playground in London to a rooftop in Tokyo, VOLTA FOOTBALL brings you the unique regional flavor of a global game.
Play your way
Personalization is at the heart of VOLTA FOOTBALL. Choose one of the game options: 3v3 blitz without goalkeepers, 4v4, 4v4 blitz, 5v5 or professional futsal. Play VOLTA FOOTBALL on pitches of various sizes, with or without sides, to play football your way.
VOLTA FOOTBALL modes:
- VOLTA Kick-Off: Take your favorite football clubs to the streets and play VOLTA FOOTBALL. Fight for PSG against Lyon in Paris, play the Madrid derby in Spain or host a Chelsea-Tottenham match on the court in London.
- VOLTA World: Build your own VOLTA FOOTBALL team and play against community-created squads in single-player matches across multiple formats and venues. After each victory, you will be able to pick up a player from the defeated team and choose a squad with the skill level and chemistry you need.
- VOLTA Story Mode: Play as your unique player in Story Mode, where you’ll have to face off against a host of legendary street soccer players from around the world. Earn rewards, customize your player and recruit new players to take part in the VOLTA FOOTBALL World Championship in Buenos Aires.
- VOLTA League: Take part in the fight for promotion to the top division in the VOLTA League. Play online against other users in the new PvP format, win and earn the right to advance to the top division.
Pre-order* the Champions Edition or Ultimate FIFA 20 and start playing VOLTA FOOTBALL three days before the game launches worldwide on September 27th.
Be the first to play FIFA 20 starting September 19 with EA Access on PlayStation ® 4 (available July) and Xbox One, and Origin Access on PC. Learn more about EA Access and Origin Access.
We will tell you more about this in the summer. In the meantime, follow FIFA 20 @EASPORTSFIFA on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
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things changed, news, heel pass brings points, a goal can be counted as 4, added a bunch of mini-games (there are «Dodgeball»!). How FIFA 22 improved the VOLTA 9 mode0001
Incredibly fun mode!
VOLTA Football is a street football mode in FIFA. He first appeared in FIFA 20, his features were a separate soundtrack, a kind of single-player campaign and unique feints. But players felt that this mode was not well thought out.
In VOLTA, you simply level up your character and play matches from 3 to 5 people per team — immersion or Ultimate Team level rewards have never been here.
In FIFA 22, they tried to dispel boredom, and went for radical changes.
VOLTA gameplay has changed beyond recognition. You can earn 4 points on the scoreboard with one goal
The developers wanted to make VOLTA different from other modes. In FIFA 21, apart from feints and a close-up camera, there were practically no differences — come in and play by the same rules.
One of the main innovations was the creation of a system for measuring skills (Skill Meter). A new focus of the gameplay — colorful tricks. Now they not only entertain the player, but also bring points. For example, a heel pass will get you 100 points, and a running wall will get you 200 points.
The skill counter is displayed in each game and is divided into 3 spaces, each of which requires 1000 points. After filling them, the player will receive a bonus of «valuable» goals: the multiplier x2, x3 or x4, depending on the filled divisions of the counter, will be reflected on the scoreboard.
The system is somewhat reminiscent of the friendly mode «King of the Hill» in FUT, only aimed at demonstrating skills and entertainment.
According to the developers, the addition of «expensive» goals will make matches more interesting. In theory, you can lose by 3 goals and still win the match — just accumulate x4 and score.
Another interesting addition is Signature Abilities. These skills are easy to use. They recharge slowly and are available during the match for a short time. There are 3 unique abilities:
1. Powerful Strike increases the power of a strike by 50%. In some cases, such a blow is capable of knocking down opponent players. 90 second cooldown and 30 second duration.
2. Pure Speed noticeably increases your player’s charge and dash stats for 15 seconds. This ability is effective on counterattacks and when returning to defense. Cooldown — 70 seconds.
3. «Aggressive selection» speaks for itself. It has the longest duration at 45 seconds and is suitable for defenders.
The cooldown is the same as Slam.
Abilities can be selected both during character creation and in the player role menu between matches.
VOLTA Arcade is a casual analogue of WL. You can have fun with your friends in mini-games with crazy rules
The street soccer mode is pure fun and EA has finally figured it out. FIFA 22 introduces VOLTA Arcade, a free weekend event. «Carefree Party», as the developers themselves call the mode.
Arcade includes a series of brand new mini-games:
Dodgeball is a 2v2 dodgeball-like game. The main goal is to hit the opponent. The game continues until 15 points.
Foot Tennis — football tennis up to 10 points. You should not lose the ball on your side of the field — 1 point is taken away for two touches.
Disco Lava. In this mode, you need to dribble, painting the squares with your own color before your opponents.
Quick Strike repeats the practice with hitting the small goal. This not the most original mode has 8 rounds.
Wall Ball Elimination — a dynamic mode in which the player has to quickly hit the ball from the wall. The player with the least number of eliminations after three rounds wins.
Team Keepaway is a game of possession. The team that holds the ball better for three rounds wins.
Target Gallery is another mini-game to hit targets. At first glance, it looks more spectacular than Quick Strike.
Corner Scramble. The last game is all about hitting the corner gate. Unlike previous games, you need to not only hit accurately, but also circle around opponents who will actively interfere.
VOLTA Arcade will have 8 mini-games at launch. Their number is expected to increase in the future. Often one of them raises doubts — one can see the repetition of ideas. However, it is noticeably more interesting than FUT Friendlies and can provide an alternative to busy WL weekends.
Other VOLTA Football changes in FIFA 22:
1. Improved the physics of interaction between the player and the defenders of the opposing team while performing feints.
Using the walls of the arena when playing a pass has also become easier.
2. Improved dribbling through the LB (L1) button. Several new tricks have been added.
3. Celebrations for two players will appear in VOLTA.
4. The developers decided to give 5 stars of weak leg and skills to each created football player. The starting rating is 82, the ceiling is 96. The latter is explained by the desire to establish team interaction. As planned, some should better attack others to defend themselves — it will not work out completely.
5. The skill tree has been reworked. Skills are now less likely to be duplicated, and leveling gives a serious boost (from +5 to +12) of characteristics — this allows you to choose your role on the field more consciously. The branches are divided according to the style of the game. The starting number of points is 25, the maximum is 120. At any time, they can be reset and redistributed.
6. 4 vs 4 matches became main.
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Inviting friends to the game has become easier. There is a quick access and a list of «recent teammates», switching between normal mode and Arcade does not reset the lobby.
8. By analogy with FUT, 6-week seasons have appeared in VOLTA. They contain weekly goals, unique clothing collections, and focus on customization. Seasonal achievements are unlocked with coins that can be earned in matches.
Season 1 will feature adidas, PSG x Jordan and Killa Villa special content.
9. Removed player chemistry, star sets, field positions and storyline from VOLTA. Single player is available only in Battles — in other modes you need to find a team.
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