EA Sports FC 25 review: One for the tacticians
radiotimes.comAfter the European football season begins and the transfer window closes, the next event in the footballing calendar is the annual release of EA Sports' premier football game, EA FC 25.
Colloquially, many will still refer to the game as FIFA despite the series's rebrand in 2022. For good reason, too, because despite the many tweaks and changes the game has undergone in recent years, it's still plagued by the familiar issues fans have complained about for years.
Yet, despite some underlying issues that, at this point, are so ingrained I would miss them if they were fixed, this is a year with a lot of positives for the series.
Most importantly for many fans, Career Mode has received some attention for the first time in years, helping to elevate the game mode and making it feel less like the forgotten middle child it's sadly become.
Now, academies are a worthwhile endeavour when crafting your own management career, enabling a reliance on youth that has been nothing short of a slog in the past.
It adds another dimension to the mode, offering players a new, reliable way to play, finally improving the youth system introduced years ago.
The menus have also been overhauled so they sit more in line stylistically with Ultimate Team, and when setting up the save, I felt spoilt with the tweaks I could make for my journey ahead.
It's still a shame that the database couldn't be more advanced; it completely ignores the history of the players' careers, only focusing on what's next.
Club stats, like youngest goalscorer, top goalscorer, fastest goals scored, and league stats, would have been a welcome addition that is still sadly missing.
It may not seem like a big deal, but something as simple as the above would help ground the game more in reality, layering in authenticity alongside tracking your progress in greater detail.
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