![]() ![]() Ultimate Team is varied enough this year to make it feel like more than just a cash grab. This license to print money continues to be the main focus of the game and while the usual player-collecting, squad-building gameplay is there attracting players with more money than sense and probably too much free time as they match up online, there’s also plenty of singleplayer depth thanks to the daily and weekly challenges the game gives you as well as improved squad building challenges that get you to build specific teams that you then trade in for reward packs. This isn’t anything new for the series but we’re glad it is still there.ĭie-hard FIFA fans won’t care too much about that, or The Journey, though. Armchair managers will enjoy the wheeling and dealing as they put together their squads while players get to create their virtual pro and take them to the pitch in an effort to win matches and also upgrade their stats by completing a varied selection of on-pitch accomplishments. You could spend months in either of them. As ever, Career Mode offers a ton of depth for both its player and managerial versions. We did wish that the game offered more dialogue choices when reacting to them as Alex’s default choices all make him seem a bit petulant.įIFA also offers all the usual other modes. Story antagonist, Gareth Williams, also turns up as does Alex’s dad. You get interviewed by Rio Ferdinand, although the acting and dialogue is just as stilted as last year’s iteration, and get to talk to various star players before and between matches. This plays out much like EA’s old title FIFA Street with a 3-on-3 match with no real rules and lots of emphasis on skill moves.Įventually Alex and Danny get back to their day jobs in the Premier League but now there is more of an emphasis on Alex’s rising fame. The most interesting thing in perhaps the whole game happens here as Alex and his buddy Danny Williams start a pick up game with some local kids. Picking up where we left off last season, Alex has had his successful first season and starts this continuation in the favelas of Brazil. The additional dialogue choices didn’t add a whole lot to the game and the pressure of constantly training slowed it down so that really there wasn’t very much story there. The mode itself was a nice addition, even if it really was just another delivery system for a season’s worth of football matches to play. With last year’s FIFA 17, EA attempted to bring something new to the table with ‘The Journey’ which was a single player campaign of sorts that saw you play as Alex Hunter, a young pro beginning his career. If you want new gameplay you might need the sport itself to change. They’ve been simulating the sport of football accurately for years now. And anyway, everyone already knows if it is a good game. The subtle changes between iterations often leaves reviewers clutching at straws looking for something different to say from last year’s reviews. ![]()
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