So after doing a 5 season Career Mode I feel like I can talk about this with the game fresh in my memory. I think this for a lot of people may be the best Fifa for the gameplay, the Ultimate Team scene was starting to pop off and the Career Mode, although stagnant at this point, was still fun to at least play for most people given that they added player training into the previous instalment.

So what did they add to this game? Low driven shots and driven passes were added to this game. Driven passes were basically a harder pass to a teammate which had the risk of being less accurate but it was quite useful for getting up the pitch quickly. Low driven shots were pretty much the way to score goals for most people although sometimes they would go very wayward. 9 goals out of 10 would go in though so if you played Head to Head or Ultimate Team or Pro Clubs, 90% of the goals you'd concede would be low driven in the box, the other 10% being long shots or set pieces.

Speaking of set pieces, most of these were also changed from the previous games which went for a timing system where you'd have a bar down the bottom with a little bit of green and you'd have to time your shot with the slider and then aim, something that took time to get used to. FIFA 17 went for a simple aim the analog stick at wherever you want to put it with an arrow which you could toggle on and off if you wanted to. This might have been my favourite penalty system (probably because I was good at it.)

Unfortunately the servers for this game have been taken down so I can't look at my online stats anymore for both Pro Clubs and Ultimate Team but what I do remember is that for Pro Clubs I played a mixture of CAM and CM in our team and it was probably when I first started getting good at clubs, and for Ultimate Team i just had a cheap EPL team, mainly remembering having Ross Barkley, Demarai Gray, Musa and Theo Walcott, getting to Division 4 or 3 before stopping as I didn't want to play FUT Champions. I also won the EA Cup on Head to Heads with Bayern Munich which I still treat as an accomplishment as I find people who play these games online to be usually just abuse exploits but I think I did a great job at the time.

I don't know where this ranks for me in all of the Career Mode games I have played as I've had a lot of fun with most of them but it's probably top 5 with Fifa 16, 19, 21 and 14. These are the games I would recommend playing to people who want to try one of the Career Mode games for various reasons.