As a long-time fan of the FIFA series, I’m always intrigued as to what a new iteration of FIFA will offer. Yes, there’s usually a lot of buzzwords and marketing hype, but there are typically some interesting additions, improvements, and changes too. “FIFA 17” will feature a story mode for the first time in the history of the franchise. This new feature will allow players to follow the career of Alex Hunter from his training days up to his rise into stardom.
According to the Evening Standard, EA Sports has released the latest trailer for the new soccer game entitled, “The Journey”. It offers a story mode similar to “FIFA 17”. Let’s call it what it is. FIFA 17’s “Journey” mode is similar to myCareer mode in NBA 2K16 or “Superstar” mode in the Madden series. “The Journey” gives players an opportunity to follow a unique and individual player, “Alex Hunter,” as you guide him from the academy all the way through to his professional level.
It plays out as a FIFA 17 story complete with dialogue choices, RPG-like elements that affects your player’s standing with his team and likenesses of real managers such as Jurgen Klopp, Jose Mourinho, and more. The trailer shows the FIFA 17 story mode character of Alex Hunter. It started with the news that he rejected big-name clubs and chose Manchester United instead. It also shows the young star in his training before joining the Red Devils.
This year’s biggest addition is titled “The Journey.” It is a more structured single story mode in which you’ll take an up-and-coming player on the verge of signing for a Premier League side and guide him through his career. Unlike FIFA’s typical Be a Pro mode, you’ll manage your player’s life off the field once the final whistle blows. During a recent interview with GameReactor, EA Sports' Creative Director Matthew Prior, talked about the things we can expect from The Journey, changes from last year's game and much more.
He said: "You are locked to the character of Alex Hunter in The Journey, and the reason we did that is we wanted to maintain the immersion and the visual fidelity we could only really do with a locked character. If you want to create a player we still have Be a Pro player mode, The Journey is not a means to replace it. We have already been given some information as to how decisions we make in The Journey will have a knock-on effect later in our in-game careers, but Prior has revealed an even deeper insight. Of course, Fifa 17's biggest talking point has nothing to do with the core game, but the new single-player story mode.
Called The Journey, this RPG-like career mode casts players as Alex Hunter – an up-and-coming English footballer. The mode – which can be played with control of the entire team or just Hunter – starts with you playing for scouts, which helps the game automatically set the difficulty level and determines the contracts you're offered from a host of Premier League clubs. As someone who has perhaps gotten a little too old for the online environment, and a little too impatient with the endless barrage of lobbed through balls or whatever the go-to tactic is in a given year, another single player mode is right up my alley.
