New Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho made a brief appearance at a simultaneous event in London to promote the new game, revealing his son has woken him up at night playing the series. The FIFA 17 game will feature a new single-player story campaign mode titled The Journey where players assume the role of Alex Hunter, a young footballer trying to make his mark in the Premier League. The FIFA 17 player will be able to select one of 20 Premier League clubs to play for at the beginning of the season. The FIFA 17 story mode also features a dialogue wheel, similar to the Mass Effect series.
Fellow FIFA 17 gaming giants Sony and Microsoft - manufacturers of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles - will both hold their own showcase events on Monday before E3 opens officially on Tuesday. Or perhaps it won't. Eurogamer went hands-on with FIFA 17's story mode and described it as genuinely different. You get "Mass Effect-style dialogue wheels" to pick how you interact with your teammates and coaches off the pitch, and your performances affect how your career progresses.
Play well, and presumably an England call-up beckons – play badly, and you'll be shipped off on loan to a lower league club to learn your craft. These eventualities are crafted into interactive cutscenes which adapt to follow your career. FIFA 17 Developer studio Electronic Arts (EA) held the first of a series of events hosted by the gaming industry ahead of the three-day convention. The result from an initial hands-on was a game that was identifiably FIFA (so won’t alienate long-term fans) but with some key changes.
FIFA 17. As how it was unveiled at E3, FIFA 17 looks set to come with a cinematic story mode that will further enhance the virtual football experience. Of course, there are plenty of other features coming to FIFA 17 and we are hoping for it to involve Career Mode. Ever since FIFA 13 or so, Career Mode has entered a stale state with nothing excitingly new to offer to the players. We are certainly upset by this as we are a huge fan of the Career Mode.
It looks better for a start, with fancier lighting and a greater level of detail on the pitch. But more pressingly, there was a significant shift in physics that makes the game feel more natural when players come together. The event is attended by over 50,000 media, developers and exhibitors as the biggest video games of the upcoming 12 months are viewed for the first time. Microsoft are expected to use their press conference to unveil a new, slimmer version of the Xbox One console. Such is the enhancement of physical play.
EA has made it a core part of the control system, with a squeeze of the left trigger allowing players to shield the ball while dribbling among a host of other physical tricks. You can now nudge into a shoulder-to-shoulder tackles and, this is a big one, choose to stay grounded for high-ball contests. In previous games, you nearly always had to contest high-balls with a header but now you can try and outmuscle your opponent and bring the ball down to feet. Ideal for strong strikers like Romelu Lukaku or Troy Deeney. Goalkeepers also no longer have an invisible forcefield around them when they come to claim crosses.
