![]() The characters here are defined not just by what they say, but by what’s left unsaid the game helps itself a lot in this respect, with surprisingly expressive faces (and, of course, with top-of-the-line in-game animations, too). It helps even more that the graphics are pretty impressive. It helps, of course, that the voice acting is strong - though it’s entirely possible that I’m just doing that North American thing where we automatically equate British accents with stronger acting. It’s pretty compelling stuff, even for someone like me who only follows the sport every four years at World Cup time. Whereas in the NBA series you play as a burgeoning star, here you play as Alex Hunter, a teenager who’s fighting to make a name for himself after being cut from his soccer academy, and then being sent away from his EPL team to play at a lower level. In fact, in some ways it works better than what you find in the NBA 2K series, because the main character here faces more adversity. Someone at EA apparently felt the same way, because FIFA 17 borrows a page from the NBA 2K handbook with the introduction of a narrative-style career mode called The Journey. Seeing as I’ve long found FIFA to be pretty lacking in that regard, it’s just dropped off my radar entirely. ![]() As I said just a few weeks ago about NBA 2K17, my opinion of sports games hinges entirely on the quality of the career mode. Even though I’m a fairly avid sports gamer, I have to admit that I’ve basically ignored the FIFA franchise for the last few years.
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