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Danny Williams, Alex’s lower-division teammate, does a marvelous face turn from the strutting prick at the football academy's final exam to a loyal big friend whose bravado eases into self-deprecation. Jim Hunter is a former Arsenal striker, whose career 50 years ago still turns Taylor into a pie-eyed little boy. More endearing are supporting cast members like the agent Michael Taylor, who not only isn’t a sleaze-with-a-heart-of-gold cliché, he’s turns out not to be a sleaze at all. A cliffhanger ending suggests there may be chapters to come Alex’s absentee father quits the scene in a huff in the opening sequence, and the story largely wastes his obvious influence, however angry, on Alex’s search for an identity. Notably, Alex is biracial, though the story doesn't conspicuously acknowledge this beyond presenting his white, tweedy grandfather, Jim, (who must sleep in that coat and flat cap) as co-parent with his worried African mother, Catherine, who doesn't get much depth herself.
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Otherwise, Alex Hunter is little more than a vessel for the user’s wish fulfillment, mainly defined by his activities on the pitch. I liked that development of Alex’s character within the story and feeling like I had a hand in it.
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Focused properly on playing time, I gave politic answers to the media and rejoined my parent club as a seasoned professional and team player. The supposed benefit of fiery answers is an increase in fans, and more fans unlock the three sponsorships Alex earns, but these deliver no performance benefit and are cosmetic cutscenes. But there’s an implied threat behind a bad match rating that injects plenty of anxiety and tension into a standard outing - for example, one below 7.0 in the second half makes Alex a sure candidate for substitution. As a substitute, some matches lay out specific goals for Alex to get into his manager’s good graces. The Journey isn’t afraid to take anything away from Alex, and upbraid him harshly in doing so. I liked this approach as opposed to the linear path most sports career modes follow, where one earns their way to a parent club and a starting job and stays there. Alex’s club loans him to a lower-division club, soothing the demotion with the assertion that he deserves to start somewhere. The Journey starts getting good about seven matches in. Meantime, Alex's buddy from the story's open joins the club with him and has no trouble landing a starting job. Whichever he joins he finds there is too much depth at his position - players may choose from four, but he is effectively hardwired to a goal-scoring role. The star of The Journey is Alex Hunter, who in the span of a single tryout goes from a player marked for release to the next big thing with his pick of all 20 clubs in the Premier League. The Journey’s gameplay still follows the train-and-go-to-match-day liturgy of Be a Pro, but always steps in with a fresh cutscene to keep the user involved and interested in pushing on to the next game.
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Structurally, The Journey is an elaborate repackaging of FIFA’s nine-year-old Be A Pro single-player career, with some role-playing choices threaded in, mainly in the form of dialogue.
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EA Sports' FIFA series put all of this year's eggs in The Journey's basket, and the risk pays off as a very complete depiction of soccer's lifestyle and realities, even as it delivers a fairy-tale outcome.
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But the mode's expectations of the player - a full season of English professional football, with no game trivial or skippable - create enough organic drama and tension to give Alex Hunter's hopes and accomplishments real tension and meaning. On its own, the story of The Journey would be the usual Swiss cheese of sports mythology. The Journey creates organic tension and drama It's possible to be released from the parent club and never finish the story as intended. It's possible to flunk out of the meat-market tryout that follows the youth league scene. Nor would The Journey require me to achieve specific objectives in a match, and replay it if I didn't meet every one. Alex's teammate and friend, Gareth, cleaned up the mess instead, and there I realized that though The Journey would spool out a classic tale of an up-from-nothing sports superstar, it would not hand the result to me, as many unstructured career modes seem to do in video games.