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EA is letting its players choose which football player is going on the cover of FIFA 17. The publishing giant is opening voting today (Wednesday, July 5th); polls will be closing on July 19th. Four options are available to consumers – Reus, Hazard, Martial and Rodriquez. This isn’t the first …
Read More »EA: ‘Story Mode is the biggest new addition to FIFA since Ultimate Team’
Each and every year, around E3 time, EA reveals what’s new with the latest FIFA. Usually, these are tweaks to the physics and core gameplay, or – recently – innovations within the lucrative Ultimate Team mode. But this year’s changes to FIFA are more significant than we’ve seen in years, …
Read More »FIFA 17 will offer a narrative story mode
EA is injecting some new-ness into this year’s FIFA with the addition of a story mode called The Journey. Following on from the likes of 2K’s NBA outing NBA 2K16, which featured a narrative penned by Spike Lee, FIFA 17 will boast a mode where users assume the role of …
Read More »E3 2016: EA focuses on Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1, teases Star Wars and Mass Effect
EA kicked of E3 on Sunday afternoon, with a conference filled with big blockbusters, if not any real surprises. The publisher started the event with Titanfall 2. The shooter from Respawn will arrive on October 28th this year, just a little ahead of the new Call of Duty. The game …
Read More »FIFA 17 switches engine from Ignite to Frostbite
This year’s FIFA instalment will be the first built on the Frostbite 3 engine, EA has announced. The football series made the leap to the freshly-built Ignite engine in 2013, alongside the launch of the PS4 and Xbox One consoles. The publisher has now confirmed that FIFA 17 will run …
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