FIFA 19 Early Wishlist: 10 Things Fans Want To See

4. Expansion To Player Negotiations

FIFA 18 Career Mode
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Play enough of FIFA 18's Career Mode and you'll begin using the square (or X on Xbox One) button a lot during agent and player negotiations. After a while, it's unnecessary to sit and read the same information over and over again. Why trawl through all that text when you know you'll have to give that next star striker a £1 million signing bonus in the end?

EA are off to a great start with these cutscenes. They've helped Career feel closer to The Journey and added more meaning to deadline day signings. There's just one problem: none of the characters are voiced. Though it'd be unrealistic to expect everyone to have a voice, it'd be a start to hear your manager speak every now and then.

If the developers can find a way to do that and maintain the same use of facial expressions depending on how well negotiations go, they might be onto a winner. If the voice thing is a step too far, then simply making the text less formulaic/generic would be a huge improvement.

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