

This saves you from spending hours on end diving deeper and deeper into a menu maze, giving you more time to play the game.įurthermore, the trend towards surfacing more information includes explaining how the game works more successfully.

Rather than tucking away player fitness, performance stats or other information into menus, the in game inbox provides much more practical data. Meanwhile, FM 2017 also successfully surfaces more information that gives players what they need to do their job properly. Newly designed menu screens and reports provide heat maps, passing diagrams and even visual representations of on-pitch gaffes that allow you to easily see where your strengths or weaknesses are. One is the continuation of the trend in FM 2016 towards providing visual, rather than numerical, assets to the manager.

Three key shifts have occurred in this direction.
