
The most significant change here is the new weapons system. This time around however, with some added competition from the likes of 2KSports, it seems like EA have realised they need to offer more if punters are going to shell out for a new game each year. At worst they tend to simply append the New Year’s player stats and line-up to the previous year’s game. The majority of you will already be familiar to these annual releases from EA. Now a year later, I am truly won over to the sport from the other side of the pond and was really looking forward to this next update from EA. After a few hours I was glad I had made the effort to investigate the game further. Once I had got to grips with the different language and pacing of the real life game, things started to click into place for me on the console version as well.

Different nations certainly imbibe different sporting desires into the hearts of their youngsters, and this can make it difficult to make the short crossing from one game to another. As a Brit, the game always seemed to be too different from the soccer that I grew up with as a boy. It wasn’t until last year that I tried my hand at a bit of video game American football.
