GameTech: Fifa 21 opts for tweaks rather than a big overhaul

The ever-popular video game has mirrored the sport it's based on by not quite generating a lot of excitement this year 
GameTech: Fifa 21 opts for tweaks rather than a big overhaul

 Fifa 21 has recently been released. 

The Premier League has restarted without fans in attendance. Perhaps FIFA 21 deserves the same fate – because unlike football itself, nothing much has changed for FIFA this year.

I don’t play FIFA much any more, due to the emphasis on microtransactions over gameplay evolution, but we can at least admit that EA usually do a good job of selling new versions each year. There’s always something to justify opening the transfer kitty annually, whether it’s a new story mode, or the introduction of a street football mode, or changes to online gameplay and career modes.

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