I donrsquo;t usually like to bring the review conditions themselves into the review, but here I think it pertinent and not just whining. During the preview period, there were eight separate embargoes for various different features, spread out over the course of two weeks - an unheard of embargo style, clearly designed to cater towards content creators. It YouTubers and the like who dedicate their whole careers to FIFA in ways journalists cannot, so I donrsquo;t begrudge EA making things easier for them but a) I suspect sharing it so widely with content creators is why literally everything leaked and b) it part of a wider pattern that has seen FIFA focus more and more on Ultimate Team, the money maker and always always the focus of these channels.
This is the last FIFA to be called FIFA, and it represents a turning point for the series, reportedly soon to be known by the terrible name EA Sports FC. If FIFA wants to focus entirely on an online mode, propped up by microtransactions, and cater its coverage entirely towards content creators, it should probably admit it a live-service game and start acting like it. FIFA mostly casual fanbase presents a problem - it unlikely many of them are aware of the naming rights wrangle to any real degree. Will players move to EA Sports FC, and will they continue to support it each year? Should they, when the landscape of all games like FIFA (which sees itself as more of an online contest than a sports sim) have moved to a free to play seasonal model with battle passes? FC 24 is the same as it has always been, maybe for the last time.
Score: 3.5/5. The publisher provided a code for this review
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However, the GTA leaks arent the only thing to happen in gaming this week, no matter how much it dominated your timelines. The leaks will FC 24 Coins be recapped in this rundown, of course, but so will some of the other biggest stories from the past week, ones you might have missed amid all the drama.
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GTA 6 Has Leaked
By this point, everyone has heard about the GTA 6 leaks. It even made it onto my mum radar which officially means everybody knows. It started on a quiet Sunday morning, when suddenly 90 clips from the in-development game popped up online. Rockstar scrambled to get the videos taken down and later confirmed via a statement that the leak was legitimate. It has assured GTA fans that it business as usual in regard to moving forward, and a 17-year-old arrested in the UK appears to have been charged in relation to the incident. Hopefully, that means the GTA 5 source code wont find its way into the wrong hands.
EA Is Working On An Iron Man Game via EA
There are a lot of Marvel games in development right now, not to mention rumored titles that will likely be added to the docket at some point. One of those rumored games was confirmed this week as EA revealed its Motive studio is indeed working on an Iron Man game with Marvel. A third-person action-adventure game that is probably still a long way off. Marvel has since claimed there isnt a connected video game universe in the offing, although it is also rumored that EA is working on a Black Panther game too.
Cyberpunk 2077 Is Back
Credit to CD Projekt, despite its disastrous launch and the months that followed, the studio has refused to give up on Cyberpunk 2077. Almost two years later, that has finally started to pay off. It seems the combination of the Phantom Liberty DLC reveal and the Edgerunners Netflix show, which has gone down a storm, has breathed new life into a game that once felt dead on arrival. CDPR boasted that more than a million players had FC Coins for sale visited Night City each and every day this week, and the game has shot up to become the best-selling game on Steam.