A game can change, as Ray Winstone says on those irritating betting ads. But it's also true of FIFA 17 it seems, as this year's edition of the footie sim will be powered by Frostbite on the PlayStation 4 – a first for the franchise. The game's due out on 27th September in North America and 29th September in Europe, and promises to deliver "authentic, true to life action". They spin that spiel every year.
The game will debut during EA's pre-E3 2016 press conference on 12th June at 21:00PM BST, but there's a teaser trailer embedded below. It features the franchise's four new football ambassadors: James Rodriguez, Marco Reus, Eden Hazard, and Anthony Martial. Apparently, if you pre-order the game, you'll get all four on "loan" in FIFA 17 Ultimate Team.
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And no doubt lacking the Ultimate Team Legends because MS dollars talk loudest.
@adf86 You win some, you lose some. It's just how it is.
@get2sammyb Difference is that it's content that's permanently left off another platform where's most of these kind of deals have a limited exclusive period.
@adf86 Yeah, I hear you. I also suspect that the vast majority of FIFA sales are the PS4 version given the brand's dominance in Europe.
Unfortunately you'll only be able to play two matches with Reus and then he'll be injured for the rest of the year.
Only if Brazilian teams are back.
Fifa Ultimate Team is the Ultimate scam
I'm looking forward to seeing more June 12th, but there's potential for good things! I'm gonna guess that some of the modes are going to be left out with the focus on Frostbite, but I hope I'm wrong. It'll look wonderful though at the very least! Haha
@get2sammyb Personally I'm fine with timed DLC as long as it's timed.
Let's go boys. PES2017 and Fifa17 fight for my money. I want demos
Interesting they are mixing up the engine, will be good to see the result
I take it with Josè narrating the trailer Managers will play a more important role this year? Hopefully we get a create-a-manager option for Career Mode, they might even make manager cards more valuable in FUT as well if they add real life mangers onto the sidelines.
Interesting to see how it'll look and feel with the Frostbite engine, but as long as we've destructible stadiums...
@Frank90 Brazlian teams were in '16
I don't usually follow FIFA announcement trailers every year, so the huge build up to "change" is very peculiar. I'll be interested to see what is truly new about this new entry. EA is apparently using the newer Frostbite engine for the game, so maybe it will be vastly improved.
Should be interesting, but as we know, proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Went to the very decent PES last year as FiFA has become stale, so i'll be interested to see what they'll say they'll do and what they actually do on both fronts.
Hoping they'll have a special "last day of the season" stat drop for my beloved Spurs, for authenticities sake...
Pes / FIFA
Nah
Kick Off Revolutions being delivered to me later this month and I'm not buying another football game for the rest of the year. They all have deep lying technical flaws and don't play like real football at all, Rocket Leagues the best interpretation of footy for years. Which is actually pretty depressing.
If they dont make career mode more interesting and immersive, i wont be buying this. Career mode has been the same now for far too long. Fifa 2007 had the best one.
@itshoggie Nope, only on 15.
@Frank90 they were, in the rest of the world league.
Who dat? I'll stick with Madden and Blood Bowl. I'm done with Fifa.
I haven't bought a footie game since PES '12 and the last FIFA game I bought was '98!
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