Offline game modes are a dying breed in terms of hugely popular FIFA 15 Coins PS3, PS4 and IOS etc as well as that was made clear by EA Sports with this year’s disappointing instalment of Career Mode.
Even through looking at other sports games from past and present, there are many avenues that EA Sports could take to improve the offline, some of which could be taken from these games which made them so great in simulating the lives of a sports team, player or manager. And so we’ve highlighted three games in particular that we felt stood out in making the offline experience a memorable one, and not a repetitive and bland B-side mode that we were met with last September.
FOOTBALL MANAGER
Football Manager is the ultimate managerial simulation hands down, thanks to all the time and effort is put in by the developers to make this game as close to the real life experience that one would go through as head coach of a professional football team.
NBA 2K
The NBA 2K games are ones which succeed both online and offline, and in particular the MyCareer and MyPlayer game modes are examples of immersing the player and making them feel part of the experience.
PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 6
For a game released in 2006, it had so many impressive features in its own offline manager / tournament mode which I took for granted at the time. Examples of this would be the player’s ability to completely customise different teams’ kits (due to teams being unlicensed) and a respectable create-a-player screen that let you create teams from scratch.
I truly hope FIFA 16 will be special, especially when thinking about the never-ending possibilities and the potential of the franchise as a whole.