Adding more fuel to the belief that EA have overlooked Career Mode in FIFA 19 is the fact that the hub looks exactly the same as its predecessor, with the only noticeable change being a crystal blue hue replacing the generic stadium from last year's game.
It is worth noting that the UEFA license has given EA the ability to add more immersion to the game, with the Champions League and Europa League featuring prominently in Career Mode, but they don't add anything to the menus. Worse yet, both the Champions League and Europa League draws happen in GIF form in the menu's 'news' section, wasting a clear opportunity for a cutscene with dialogue.
There's something to be said about if something's not broke, then don't bother fixing it, but the interface has never been that brilliant, and though giving players the ability to better evaluate stats is welcome, the changes still only feel marginal at best.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
