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| Alex Hunter in The Journey Fifa 17 |
The new Story Mode showed off in today’s trailer by EA looks
promising to say the least. This single player campaign will be featured around
a Player named Alex Hunter. While there is no player creation in this Story
mode, I don’t necessarily see that as a bad thing. I personally feel that
having a pre-scripted character will make the Story Mode feel more immersive
than creating your own character. All the script, cut-scenes and ‘mission’s' if
you can call them that, will be focused solely on one character. Often times
what happens in character creation games is you can create your own unique character
and that’s cool and all but the ‘Story’ sometimes doesn’t really fit your
character but is more often than not a basic, bland, generic script. This way the Story Mode can truly
just focus on and revolve around one character making the Story Mode in Fifa 17
truly immersive.
This doesn’t mean that the Story Mode in Fifa 17 will be
linear and boring by any means, as players still have a choice on which Clubs
Alex Hunter will join as well as other in-game decisions. The career of Alex
Hunter is also player dependent, as the career will be impacted by each player’s
performance in games as well as the decisions the player makes. This is also depicted on EA’s site as you can choose between different responses/answers for a press conference thus affecting your image and
interaction with the media as well as your team. This dialogue choice system
worked pretty well for games like Mass Effect and I think they can work well in
Fifa 17 as well, making each Story Mode unique in its own way.
While I am disappointed that that Alex Hunter’s career in
Story Mode can only be played out in the English Premier League, I do
appreciate the sheer amount of work involved in just including one of the
biggest leagues to start off with. I do hope that future iterations of Story
Mode in Fifa 18 and such do include other big leagues such as La Liga and Bundesliga.
There are still quite a few top tier teams you can choose to join in the EPL
and I hope that the Story Mode in Fifa 17 lives up to its current expectation
and Hype.
EA did promise us an updated trailer for Fifa 17 and boy was
it something special. Not only did some of the gameplay look pretty good but
the graphics looked absolutely stunning, as it should with Fifa 17 utilizing
the Frostbite engine.
If you have not seen the new trailer EA released yet then
definitely check that out below.
To see a more complete list of things to be featured in The Journey, check out EA's site here.
While the addition of Story mode to Fifa 17 as well as the
switch to the very promising Frostbite engine does make Fifa 17 an amazing game
to look forward to, I sincerely hope that EA also addresses a number of other
key issues. The issues I’m talking about are things such as basic gameplay performance being a lot smoother to polishing up other game modes such as career
mode and be a pro mode.
While I do also realize that adding in a Story Mode to Fifa 17 probably took quite a bit of work
in development, it would be saddening to see major issues from previous Fifa’s
remaining largely unaddressed, and therefore dragging down what could be one of
the greatest Fifa iterations ever.
All in all I am truly excited to see what Fifa 17 brings to the
table and will be eagerly waiting for it’s release in September.
Have you Pre-ordered Fifa 17 yet? Has this new Fifa 17 The Journey changed your mind about pre-ordering Fifa 17?
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