"At A Certain Point, We Need Change": EA Sports FC 24 Review

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Let's get this out of the way — is a solid game. As far as soccer simulators go, it's got the sort of graphical prowess you'd expect from a juggernaut like EA, alongside access to character models and club representations that make it a go-to for real-life fans of the sport. By all accounts, should this be someone's first experience with a soccer game over the past several years, they'd probably be outright amazed at the quality. If that's you — is a must-play.

For everyone else, though — the die-hards who purchase a game every year, or those who revisit them frequently — the mantra remains the same: at some point, we need a change. just doesn't meaningfully improve anything that previous iterations did, whether that be strengths or weaknesses. It's a largely similar experience with nothing that will excite those who want soccer games to continue pushing boundaries.

It's especially frustrating because could easily have been that EA finally took a risk on. The rebranding was a perfect opportunity to throw the genre headlong into its long-awaited future. It could've been a tantalizing player campaign that brings back some of the more cinematic and emotional decisions of yesteryear. A more robust multiplayer mode with gameplay features ranging from goofy to inspired. It could have been anything. What we got instead was just a taste of what the future be like with a slew of new mechanics that feel like they're only in their infancy.

One thing gets right is its lean into slightly more RPG-like character building. Giving players access to traits and Playstyles makes character customization perhaps the best its ever been — save for an extremely disappointing and generic creation system that spits out the same 12 or so people