It is PEOWW’s contention that football games peaked with EA’s Euro 2008 game. It brought in all of the really good stuff that is now part of the main FIFA games and everything since then has just been EA treading water. After all, if you’re simulating a sport nigh-on perfectly, what can you do next?
Player stories.
“It’s about creating a football world you immerse yourself in, thing like, you know, the Rooney story [when he said he want to leave Man Utd and then signed a new contract]. [That’s] definitely interesting to us” says FIFA creative director Gary Paterson.
Just. Fucking. Stop. EA.