{"id":89799,"date":"2026-09-18T20:45:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T00:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89799"},"modified":"2026-09-18T22:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:38:10","slug":"ea-sports-fc-27-review-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89799","title":{"rendered":"EA Sports FC 27 Review So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>I find myself in a weird place for my in-progress review of EA Sports FC 27. On one hand, worthwhile strategic elements have finally been added that reflect real-world tactics in a concise, intuitive way. On the other hand, the promised improvements to behavior and pathing of computer-controlled players on the field still ring hollow, carrying over many of the same issues the series has had for over a decade. Couple this with the dreaded introduction of open-world elements via The Grounds, and the result is yet another instance of positive steps forward but negative steps backward.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since NBA 2K14 introduced MyPark, which eventually evolved into The Neighborhood in NBA 2K18 and The City in NBA 2K21, I figured it was only a matter of time before EA brought a similar open world full of activities to its sports franchises. While The Grounds isn&#8217;t without merit, it often feels like EA is trying to solve a problem that didn&#8217;t really exist.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"ea-sports-fc-27-official-gameplay-deep-dive\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>My first impression is that The Grounds doesn\u2019t need to be an open-world environment to deliver what the playerbase wants out of a more communal online mode. I don\u2019t need to run through a visually saturated,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself in a weird place for my in-progress review of EA Sports FC 27. On one hand, worthwhile strategic elements have finally been added that reflect real-world tactics in a concise, intuitive way. On the other hand, the promised improvements to behavior and pathing of computer-controlled players on the field still ring hollow,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":89801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89803,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89799\/revisions\/89803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}