FIFA 17

This would be the case except FIFA 17 comes with one big welcome surprise; The Journey. The Journey is the first real attempt at the FIFA series adapting a story mode. In The Journey you follow the Story of Alex Hunter. Hunter is an up and coming football superstar, who dreams of making it big in the world of football. You start off by playing through your exit trials in the football academy, and naturally you do so well that you get heaps of offers from all the big name teams in the Premier League.

After playing a few games with your selected team, it becomes apparent that your best friend is doing a lot better that you, and you end up spending a lot of time on the bench. You eventually go out on loan to a Championship League team. It’s here that you will prove yourself by playing well in matches, and exceeding in training drills, that will see you rise as a star and rejoin the ranks in the Premier League. You’ll then score endorsements and go on to play for the coveted FA Cup.

New this year to FIFA 17 is also a new engine for the FIFA games, now running frostbite. It’s quite noticeable that this engine works better for FIFA than EA’s Ignite engine. It seems like with the Frostbite engine that it’s made the players feel a lot more alive and allowed them to have more personality. For large portions of gameplay it almost feels like you could be watching an actual match, because of how realistic some of the movements and reactions are, from sizing up a player to making a through pass past them, right down to the over the top flailing on the ground after being tripped. Frostbite also takes you beyond the football pitch, to the locker rooms, your house, your managers office and more.