Regardless of the awkward attempt at drama, the gameplay is neither as engaging nor responsive as either of the sim soccer games. You’ll have to choose which guys to keep and which to let go, though the decision-making is very thin since whoever has the higher stats stays.
Team members will actually squabble over playing time or just have beef with each other for some randomly generated reason. Once again, you earn ‘skill bills’ with which to buy more gear and stat points, but eventually you can juice your entire squad’s stats as Career mode exhibits some story elements. Either score up to 10 goals first, get up to a certain amount of trick points first, or be the first to do a certain trick a couple of times.
There are a couple of different match types that pop up as you play through the Career, most of which are obvious, but they are varied enough to keep things interesting.
The obligatory character creation tool works as it always did, so you can still warp a player model to Hulk-ish proportions and trick him out with such off-the-wall gear as shirts, shorts, shoes, and socks.Īfter sifting through the minutia, you can dump him into Career mode, which has a set of not-so-challenging challenges for you to plow through until you rule the streets again. Much of the shake from EA Big’s Street franchises has predictably been sprinkled onto FIFA Street 2.
