NUFC FIFA 16 Career Mode, Pt. 1: Introduction

I play FIFA quite a bit, more than I'm willing to admit. For such a terribly made game it somehow manages to be good year after year. The guys over at EA must be really good at polishing s***. Poop jokes aside, for now, this is one of my favorite times of the year. Everyone has had their optimism renewed for another installment in the FIFA franchise. People have yet to see through EA's bull and somehow still have a positive outlook on a very clearly broken game. Crazy, right? Makes you want to become a game developer. "Oh, you need the game 100% finished and bug free by launch? Nahhhhh, I'm busy. I do have last year's game with a couple of pointless changes that have no effect on game play. Really? I'm hired? Thanks, EA." Okay, despite my intense hatred for EA, I love playing FIFA. Maybe the only thing I love more than FIFA in the entire world, (sorry Mom and Dad, but I don't remember playing with you for 12 hours straight), is my beloved Newcastle United, a soccer team in the English Premier League. Newcastle United, AKA the Magpies, are consistently terrible every year. But before every season, they sign good players and assure their fans that everything will change. Kinda like EA with FIFA. Mix these two loves and what does that give you? A FIFA 16 Career Mode with Newcastle United. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Career Mode in FIFA is a game mode in which you take over as the manager of a club and are put in charge of everything at the club, from day-to-day management to million dollar transfers and trades. Every year since FIFA 13, I've done a career mode with Newcastle United where I take them from the bottom of the Premier League, where they continue to wallow in their own terrible performances, to the pinnacle of European football, the Champions League Final. I plan on documenting my journey through this blog. I'll be back pretty soon with some preseason plans and then with weekly updates of all my in-game shenanigans. Wish me luck!

Jack Colback, Papiss Cisse, and Ayoze Perez, Newcastle United players, celebrating a goal against Arsenal last season.



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