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Each skill game has four  stages: bronze, silver, gold and skill challenge, and naturally they get progressively more difficult. With the lobbed pass tasks, for example, you start out having to chip the ball into a series of bins, but on reaching gold you need to hit the crossbar within eight attempts. They're fun but they're also instructional: for example, I discovered that I've been taking penalties wrongly for the last five years, which was handy. However, despite sailing through the freekick challenge, setpieces are still frustratingly obtuse in the game and the new tactical freekick options, which let you bluff and double bluff your chosen taker, merely plaster layers of ineffective artifice over the top.

One final nice touch, though: random skill challenges come up while you're waiting for matches to load, giving you a little opportunity to tune your skills. As for presentation, a general overhaul of the graphics engine is noticeable, with crisper, brighter stadium detail and a few new contextual animations that takes us ever closer toward moments of photorealism. When Joe Hart pumps his fist after a successful save, or Wayne Rooney wheels manically away from a goal, the actions are so smooth it is a joy to watch. The commentary, too adds to this sense that it's not only the sport that's being simulated, it's the theatre. While Andy Townsend will reflexively point out the brilliance of a penalty that dinks in off the cross bar, you also get Alan Smith pontificating on the Etihad Stadium's role in the regeneration of east Manchester.

It all adds to this sense of occasion – something EA is also building on by enhancing Fifa 13's connection with the real sport. The match day function now downloads stats and trivia from the week's play and applies these to your player ratings and certain commentary elements. When it works, there's a little frisson of excitement and recognition – though many fans will baulk at having their simulation tied closely to capricious reality don't worry, you can switch it off. Elsewhere, the career mode hasn't been dramatically overhauled, save for the addition of international roles, which give your player or manager the chance to represent their country – a neat idea that brings a  different rhythm to the pro options.